It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

It is increasingly recognized that the human planum temporale is not a dedicated language
processor, but is in fact engaged in the analysis of many types of complex sound. We …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

By Fourier's theorem, signals can be decomposed into a sum of sinusoids of different
frequencies. This is especially relevant for hearing, because the inner ear performs a form of …

Our brain integrates the information provided by the different sensory modalities into a
coherent percept, and recent studies suggest that this process is not restricted to higher …

Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of
academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in …

The dual-pathway model of auditory cortical processing assumes that two largely
segregated processing streams originating in the lateral belt subserve the two main …

Music's ability to influence emotions and moods is universally acknowledged, and music
therapists have long known that stimulating the brain through the auditory system is a key to …

Attention powerfully influences auditory perception, but little is understood about the
mechanisms whereby attention sharpens responses to unattended sounds. We used high …

Auditory word-form recognition was originally proposed by Wernicke to occur within left
superior temporal gyrus (STG), later further specified to be in posterior STG. To account for …