A large-scale study from the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota finds no evidence for a long-believed association between musical training and enhanced neural processing of sounds at the early stages of auditory processing.

Researchers attempted to recreate several results from past studies and found no evidence of several key findings.

In this latest study, musicians demonstrated no greater ability to process speech in background sounds than non-musicians. Musicians also didn’t have superior abilities to process changes in the pitch of speech.