The fundamental perceptual unit in hearing is the'auditory object'. Similar to visual objects,
auditory objects are the computational result of the auditory system's capacity to detect …

Pitch is important for speech and music perception, and may also play a crucial role in our
ability to segregate sounds that arrive from different sources. This article reviews some basic …

Studies evaluating phonological contrast learning typically investigate either the
predictiveness of specific pretraining aptitude measures or the efficacy of different …

Languages can use a common repertoire of vocal sounds to signify distinct meanings. In
tonal languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, pitch contours of syllables distinguish one …

How the brain processes complex sounds, like voices or musical instrument sounds, is
currently not well understood. The features comprising the acoustic profiles of such sounds …

The basis of musical consonance has been debated for centuries without resolution. Three
interpretations have been considered:(i) that consonance derives from the mathematical …

The perception of music depends on many culture-specific factors, but is also constrained by
properties of the auditory system. This has been best characterized for those aspects of …

Just as the visual system parses complex scenes into identifiable objects, the auditory
system must organize sound elements scattered in frequency and time into coherent" …

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 …

Research on the contributions of the human nervous system to language processing and
learning has generally been focused on the association regions of the brain without …