Infant-directed speech (IDS) refers to the suite of prosodic and structural modifications that
adults use when communicating with infants, as opposed to adults. A number of theories …

Sounds are generated by interactions between objects in the world and carry information
about the sound's sources and the objects' sound-generating actions. This dual nature of …

For seventy years, auditory selective attention research has focused on studying the
cognitive mechanisms of prioritizing the processing a 'main'task-relevant stimulus, in the …

Neural activity in the auditory system synchronizes to sound rhythms, and brain–
environment synchronization is thought to be fundamental to successful auditory perception …

The decoding multivariate Temporal Response Function (decoder) or speech envelope
reconstruction approach is a well-known tool for assessing the cortical tracking of speech …

It has been demonstrated that from cortical recordings, it is possible to detect which speaker
a person is attending in a cocktail party scenario. The stimulus reconstruction approach …

Listening environments contain background sounds that mask speech and lead to
communication challenges. Sensitivity to slow acoustic fluctuations in speech can help …

Music is often described in the laboratory and in the classroom as a beneficial tool for
memory encoding and retention, with a particularly strong effect when words are sung to …

Logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA) is a neurodegenerative language
disorder primarily characterized by impaired phonological processing. Sentence repetition …

Introduction People with aphasia have been shown to benefit from rhythmic elements for
language production during aphasia rehabilitation. However, it is unknown whether rhythmic …