Objective: Music and speech are complex signals containing regularities in how they unfold
in time. Similarities between music and speech/language in terms of their auditory features …

A continuing debate in language acquisition research is whether there are critical periods
(CPs) in development during which the system is most responsive to environmental input …

A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language
that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and …

Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …

The performance of the rhythm metrics ΔC,% V, PVIs and Varcos, said to quantify rhythm
class distinctions, was tested using English, German, Greek, Italian, Korean and Spanish …

In this article, we begin with a summary of the evidence for perceptual narrowing for various
aspects of language (eg, vowel and consonant contrasts, tone languages, visual language …

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 …

This article reviews the evidence for rhythmic categorization that has emerged on the basis
of rhythm metrics, and argues that the metrics are unreliable predictors of rhythm which …

Life span developmental profiles were constructed for 305 participants (ages 4-95) for a
battery of paced and unpaced perceptual-motor timing tasks that included synchronize …

In this article, we provide a critical review of the literature on speech perception and
phonological processing in infancy, and in populations with different experiential histories as …