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 …

Dichotic listening originally was a means of studying attention. Half a century ago Doreen
Kimura parlayed the dichotic method into a noninvasive indicator of lateralized cerebral …

Previous work has not yielded clear conclusions about the categorical nature of perception
of tone contrasts by native listeners of tone languages. We reopen this issue in a cross …

The ability of native English (NE) and native Chinese (NC) speakers to identify and
discriminate the mid‐versus the low‐tone contrast in Thai was investigated before and after …

Speech prosody is processed in neither a single region nor a specific hemisphere, but
engages multiple areas comprising a large-scale spatially distributed network in both …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging was employed before and after six native English
speakers completed lexical tone training as part of a program to learn Mandarin as a second …

Tasks of word reading in Chinese and English; nonverbal IQ; speeded naming; and units of
syllable onset (a phoneme measure), syllable, and tone detection awareness were …

Auditory nerve single-unit population studies have demonstrated that phase-locking plays a
dominant role in the neural encoding of both the spectrum and voice pitch of speech sounds …

It has been suggested that music and speech maintain entirely dissociable mental
processing systems. The current study, however, provides evidence that there is an overlap …

This article examines the perception of tones by non-tone-language-learning (non-tone-
learning) infants between 5 and 18 months in a study that reveals infants' initial sensitivity to …