Over the past two decades, there has been a major increase in research into the effects of
the arts on health and well-being, alongside developments in practice and policy activities in …

Music is ubiquitous across human cultures—as a source of affective and pleasurable
experience, moving us both physically and emotionally—and learning to play music shapes …

Predicting language performances after preterm birth is challenging. It is described in the
literature that early exposure to the extrauterine environment can be either detrimental or …

Rhythm and metrical regularities are fundamental properties of music and poetry-and all of
those are used in the interaction between infants and their parents. Music and rhythm …

Objective Identifying early signs of developmental dyslexia, associated with deficient speech-
sound processing, is paramount to establish early interventions. We aimed to find early …

Objective We investigated early maturation of the infant mismatch response MMR, including
mismatch negativity (MMN), positive MMR (P-MMR), and late discriminative negativity …

Familial risk for developmental dyslexia can compromise auditory and speech processing
and subsequent language and literacy development. According to the phonological deficit …

The quality of infant-directed speech (IDS) and infant-directed singing (IDSi) are considered
vital to children, but empirical studies on protomusical qualities of the IDSi influencing infant …

Objectives: A major issue in the rehabilitation of children with cochlear implants (CIs) is
unexplained variance in their language skills, where many of them lag behind children with …

Neurocomparative music and language research has seen major advances over the past
two decades. The goal of this Special Issue “Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and …