Listening to speech is often demanding because of signal degradations and the presence of
distracting sounds (ie,“noise”). The question how the brain achieves the task of extracting …

Whether or not categorical perception results from the operation of a special, language-
specific, speech mode remains controversial. In this cross-language (Mandarin Chinese …

Working memory is a limited resource: brains can only maintain small amounts of sensory
input (memory load) over a brief period of time (memory decay). The dynamics of slow …

Working memory denotes the ability to retain stimuli in mind that are no longer physically
present and to perform mental operations on them. Electro-and magnetoencephalography …

The nature of the fundamental deficit underlying reading disability is the subject of a long-
standing debate. We previously found that dyslexics with additional learning difficulties (D …

Both functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event-related brain potential (ERP)
studies have shown that verbal working memory plays an important role during sentence …

The present magnetoencephalography study investigated memory load-dependent changes
in cortical oscillatory activity during a modified auditory version of the Sternberg paradigm …

Studies in all sensory modalities have demonstrated amplification of early brain responses
to attended signals, but less is known about the processes by which listeners selectively …

Categorization is fundamental to our perception and understanding of the environment.
However, little is known about the neural bases underlying the categorization of sounds …

We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to examine brain activity related to the
maintenance of non-verbal pitch information in auditory short-term memory (ASTM). We …