A growing body of research suggests that musical training has a beneficial impact on
speech processing (eg, hearing of speech in noise and prosody perception). As this …

We might be forced to listen to a high-frequency tone at our audiologist's office or we might
enjoy falling asleep with a white-noise machine, but the sounds that really matter to us are …

Speech comprehension requires that the brain extract semantic meaning from the spectral
features represented at the cochlea. To investigate this process, we performed an fMRI …

Selectively attending to one speaker in a multi-speaker scenario is thought to synchronize
low-frequency cortical activity to the attended speech signal. In recent studies, reconstruction …

Models that predict brain responses to stimuli provide one measure of understanding of a
sensory system and have many potential applications in science and engineering. Deep …

Identifying behaviorally relevant sounds in the presence of background noise is one of the
most important and poorly understood challenges faced by the auditory system. An elegant …

Humans and animals can reliably perceive behaviorally relevant sounds in noisy and
reverberant environments, yet the neural mechanisms behind this phenomenon are largely …

Speech communication in real-world environments requires adaptation to changing acoustic
conditions. How the human auditory cortex adapts as a new noise source appears in or …

Experience shapes our perception of the world on a moment-to-moment basis. This robust
perceptual effect of experience parallels a change in the neural representation of stimulus …

Our ability to make sense of the auditory world results from neural processing that begins in
the ear, goes through multiple subcortical areas, and continues in the cortex. The specific …