The ability to perceive a regular beat in music and synchronize to this beat is a widespread
human skill. Fundamental to musical behaviour, beat and meter refer to the perception of …

Speech perception is thought to rely on a cortical feedforward serial transformation of
acoustic into linguistic representations. Using intracranial recordings across the entire …

The mismatch negativity (MMN) is a pre-attentive auditory event-related potential (ERP)
component that is elicited by a change in a repetitive acoustic pattern. It is obtained by …

It has recently been conjectured that dyslexia arises from abnormal auditory sampling. What
sampling rate is altered and how it affects reading remains unclear. We hypothesized that by …

The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is poised to become a standard nonhuman
primate aging model. With an average lifespan of 5 to 7 years and a maximum lifespan of …

The mouse sensory neocortex is reported to lack several hallmark features of topographic
organization such as ocular dominance and orientation columns in primary visual cortex or …

Pitch is a defining perceptual property of many real-world sounds, including music and
speech. Classically, theories of pitch perception have differentiated between temporal and …

We can recognize the melody of a familiar song when it is played on different musical
instruments. Similarly, an animal must be able to recognize a warning call whether the caller …

Neuroimaging studies have provided important information regarding how and where pitch
is coded and processed in the human brain. Recordings of the frequency-following …

A fundamental structure of sounds encountered in the natural environment is the
harmonicity. Harmonicity is an essential component of music found in all cultures. It is also a …