How do we recognize what one person is saying when others are speaking at the same
time? The “cocktail-party problem” proposed by Cherry (1953) has puzzled scientific …

Hearing aid technology has improved dramatically in the last decade, especially in the
ability to adaptively respond to dynamic aspects of background noise. Despite these …

Infant vocalizations are among the most biologically salient sounds in the environment and
can draw the listener to the infant rapidly in both times of distress and joy. A region of the …

Musical expertise modulates preattentive neural sound discrimination. However, this
evidence up to great extent originates from paradigms using very simple stimulation. Here …

IN the very first issue of the iconic music magazine Rolling Stone, editor Jann Wenner
(1968) wrote that the content was “not just about the music, but about the things and …

Musical experience may benefit learning of a new language by increasing the fidelity with
which the auditory system encodes sound. In the current study, participants with varying …

Musical training has been shown to have positive effects on several aspects of speech
processing, however, the effects of musical training on the neural processing of speech …

Links between musicality and vocal emotion perception skills have only recently emerged as
a focus of study. Here we review current evidence for or against such links. Based on a …

OBJECTIVE: Otoacoustic emissions and the speech-evoked auditory brainstem response
are objective indices of peripheral auditory physiology that are used clinically for assessing …

To understand how musical experience influences subcortical processing of emotionally
salient sounds, we recorded brain stem potentials to affective vocal sounds. Our results …