The effects of music training in relation to brain plasticity have caused excitement, evident
from the popularity of books on this topic among scientists and the general public …

The human soundscape is characterized by complex sounds with rich harmonic structures,
dynamic amplitude modulations, and rapid spectrotemporal fluctuations. This complexity is …

Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the remarkable fidelity with
which the human auditory brainstem represents key acoustic features of the speech signal …

The frequency-following response, or FFR, is a neurophysiological response to sound that
precisely reflects the ongoing dynamics of sound. It can be used to study the integrity and …

Neural processes underlying pitch perception at the level of the cerebral cortex are
influenced by language experience. We investigated whether early, pre-attentive stages of …

Frequency-following responses (FFRs) were recorded to two naturally produced vowels
(/a/and/i/) in normal hearing subjects. A digitally implemented Fourier analyzer was used to …

The idea that speech processing relies on unique, encapsulated, domain-specific
mechanisms has been around for some time. Another well-known idea, often espoused as …

We investigated training-related improvements in listening in noise and the biological
mechanisms mediating these improvements. Training-related malleability was examined …

Consonant and dissonant pitch relationships in music provide the foundation of melody and
harmony, the building blocks of Western tonal music. We hypothesized that phase-locked …

The presence of irrelevant auditory information (other talkers, environmental noises)
presents a major challenge to listening to speech. The fundamental frequency (F 0) of the …