Humans and other animals can attend to one of multiple sounds and follow it selectively
over time. The neural underpinnings of this perceptual feat remain mysterious. Some studies …

Singing provides a unique opportunity to examine music performance—the musical
instrument is contained wholly within the body, thus eliminating the need for creating …

Does music make you smarter? Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to
confer intellectual advantages. Any association between music and intellectual functioning …

Age-related decline in auditory perception reflects changes in the peripheral and central
auditory systems. These age-related changes include a reduced ability to detect minute …

Many sound sources emit signals in a predictable manner. The idea that predictability can
be exploited to support the segregation of one source's signal emissions from the …

Auditory figure–ground segregation, listeners' ability to selectively hear out a sound of
interest from a background of competing sounds, is a fundamental aspect of scene analysis …

'Auditory scenes' often contain contributions from multiple acoustic sources. These are
usually heard as separate auditory 'streams', which can be selectively followed over time …

An important aspect of the perceived quality of vocal music is the degree to which the
vocalist sings in tune. Although most listeners seem sensitive to vocal mistuning, little is …

Communication by sounds requires that the communication channels (ie speech/speakers
and other sound sources) had been established. This allows to separate concurrently active …

Music is a species-specific communication system that develops under a complex set of
genetic constraints and environmental input. As with language, some features of musical …