It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

The study of musical abilities and activities in infancy has the potential to shed light on
musical biases or dispositions that are rooted in nature rather than nurture. The available …

This fully updated and revised sixth edition of Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and
Physiological Acoustics provides a comprehensive introduction for graduate students and …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate central auditory system maturation
based on detailed data from multi-electrode recordings of long-latency auditory evoked …

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the value of a new gap
detection procedure called Gaps-In-Noise (GIN) for assessment of temporal resolution in a …

The author has thought about working memory, not always by that name, since 1969 and
has conducted research on its infant and child development since the same year that the …

Intrinsic perceptual biases for simple duration ratios are thought to constrain the
organization of rhythmic patterns in music. We tested that hypothesis by exposing listeners …

Some scholars consider music to exemplify the classic criteria for a complex human
adaptation, including universality, orderly development, and special‐purpose cortical …

We review the literature on infants' perception of pitch and temporal patterns, relating it to
comparable research with human adult and non-human listeners. Although there are …

The focus of this chapter is on how infants perceive, process, and learn from their auditory
environments. We focus on mechanism of hearing, speech perception, and early language …