So-called duplex speech stimuli with perceptually ambiguous spectral cues to one ear and
isolated low-versus high-frequency third formant “chirp” to the opposite ear yield a coherent …

In a paper published recently in PNAS, Mankel and Bidelman (1) challenge environmental
accounts of associations between music training and speech perception. Such accounts …

The frequency-following response (FFR) is an evoked potential that provides a neural index
of complex sound encoding in the brain. FFRs have been widely used to characterize …

Introduction Spoken language comprehension requires listeners map continuous features of
the speech signal to discrete category labels. Categories are however malleable to …

Music, like spoken language, is often characterized by hierarchically organized structure.
Previous experiments have shown neural tracking of notes and beats, but little work touches …

In reading conventional poems aloud, the rhythmic experience is coupled with the projection
of meter, enabling the prediction of subsequent input. However, it is unclear how top-down …

Speech perception requires the integration of evidence from acoustic cues across multiple
dimensions. Individuals differ in their cue weighting strategies, that is, the weight they assign …

Many human behaviors are discussed in terms of discrete categories. Quantizing behavior
in this fashion may provide important traction for understanding the complexities of human …

Surrounding context influences speech listening, resulting in dynamic shifts to category
percepts. To examine its neural basis, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during …

The brain transforms continuous acoustic events into discrete category representations to
downsample the speech signal for our perceptual-cognitive systems. Such phonetic …