Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory, and motor experience that usually
commences at an early age and requires the acquisition and maintenance of a range of …

Despite decades of research, the functional neuroanatomy of speech processing has been
difficult to characterize. A major impediment to progress may have been the failure to …

Every human culture has some form of music with a beat: a perceived periodic pulse that
structures the perception of musical rhythm and which serves as a framework for …

Speech and language are considered uniquely human abilities: animals have
communication systems, but they do not match human linguistic skills in terms of recursive …

Moving in synchrony with an auditory rhythm requires predictive action based on
neurodynamic representation of temporal information. Although it is known that a regular …

The growing consensus that language is distributed into large-scale cortical and subcortical
networks has brought with it an increasing focus on the connectional anatomy of language …

Built on an analogy between the visual and auditory systems, the following dual stream
model for language processing was suggested recently: a dorsal stream is involved in …

Music performance is both a natural human activity, present in all societies, and one of the
most complex and demanding cognitive challenges that the human mind can undertake …

5. Mechanisms of Transduction and Excitation in the Cochlea.. 1 1 2 A. Introduction.......... 1 1
2 B. The cytoskeleton of the transducer region..... 1 1 3 C. Mechanisms of transduction....... 1 …

Spoken word recognition requires complex, invariant representations. Using a meta-analytic
approach incorporating more than 100 functional imaging experiments, we show that …