While previous research has suggested that music training is associated with improvements
in various cognitive and linguistic skills, the mechanisms mediating or underlying these …

Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the remarkable fidelity with
which the human auditory brainstem represents key acoustic features of the speech signal …

Musicians have lifelong experience parsing melodies from background harmonies, which
can be considered a process analogous to speech perception in noise. To investigate the …

The frequency-following response, or FFR, is a neurophysiological response to sound that
precisely reflects the ongoing dynamics of sound. It can be used to study the integrity and …

Much of our daily communication occurs in the presence of background noise,
compromising our ability to hear. While understanding speech in noise is a challenge for …

Despite an explosion of research in the affective sciences during the last few decades,
interdisciplinary theories of human emotions are lacking. Here we present a neurobiological …

A growing body of research suggests that cognitive functions, such as attention and memory,
drive perception by tuning sensory mechanisms to relevant acoustic features. Long-term …

Training programs aimed to alleviate or improve auditory-cognitive abilities have either
experienced mixed success or remain to be fully validated. The limited benefits of such …

Aging results in pervasive declines in nervous system function. In the auditory system, these
declines include neural timing delays in response to fast-changing speech elements; this …

Music training may strengthen auditory skills that help children not only in musical
performance but in everyday communication. Comparisons of musicians and non-musicians …