Enhancing performance levels of athletes during training and competition is a desired goal
in sports. Quantifying training success is typically accompanied by performance diagnostics …

Abstract The Frequency-Following Response (FFR) is a neurophonic auditory evoked
potential that reflects the efficient encoding of speech sounds and is disrupted in a range of …

Objectives: Cross-language studies, as reflected by the scalp-recorded frequency-following
response (FFR) to voice pitch, have shown the influence of dominant linguistic environments …

Important to Western tonal music is the relationship between pitches both within and
between musical chords; melody and harmony are generated by combining pitches selected …

Results Because the auditory brainstem response physically resembles the acoustic
properties of incoming sounds (taking a neural “snapshot” of a sound's pitch, timing and …

An NPR “Book of the Day” A “deeply scientific yet often poetic” study that will forever change
the way you think about everyday sounds—with fun illustrations that make complex …

This contribution describes how music can trigger plastic changes in the brain. We elaborate
on the concept of neuroplasticity by focussing on three major topics: the ontogenetic scale of …

The young nervous system is primed for sensory learning, facilitating the acquisition of
language and communication skills. Social and linguistic impoverishment can limit these …

Scholars have documented similarities in the way voice and music convey emotions. By
using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) we explored whether these similarities …

Recent neural studies have established 3 limbic regions, namely the amygdala, the
hippocampus, and the nucleus accumbens (NAc), as the fundamental nodes of the neural …