Is it known that musicians have a better hearing that no musicians, but that does mean that they are less susceptible to inattentional deafness than those without any musical experience? There is an hypothesis that suggest so, due to non-musicians being less experienced listeners.
For answering this question we should use some background studies such as the one made by Cherry in 1953, in which participants were asked to just listen to one person in a crowded room. Most of the participants failed to notice in what language was the unattended message, but they could almost always identified the sex of the talker. But Cherry isn’t the only one that studied this “phenomena”, there are some other theories of selective attention such as Broadbent(1953),
For answering this question we should use some background studies such as the one made by Cherry in 1953, in which participants were asked to just listen to one person in a crowded room. Most of the participants failed to notice in what language was the unattended message, but they could almost always identified the sex of the talker. But Cherry isn’t the only one that studied this “phenomena”, there are some other theories of selective attention such as Broadbent(1953),