human hearing depends on a combination of cognitive and sensory processes that function
by means of an interactive circuitry of bottom-up and top-down neural pathways, extending …

Does musical training affect our perception of speech? For example, does learning to play a
musical instrument modify the neural circuitry for auditory processing in a way that improves …

Sound is an invisible but powerful force that is central to everyday life. Studies in the
neurobiology of everyday communication seek to elucidate the neural mechanisms …

Even in the quietest of rooms, our senses are perpetually inundated by a barrage of sounds,
requiring the auditory system to adapt to a variety of listening conditions in order to extract …

Musical training is associated with a myriad of neuroplastic changes in the brain, including
more robust and efficient neural processing of clean and degraded speech signals at …

Are there bi-directional influences between speech perception and music perception? An
answer to this question is essential for understanding the extent to which the speech and …

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 …

While hearing in noise is a complex task, even in high levels of noise humans demonstrate
remarkable hearing ability. Binaural hearing, which involves the integration and analysis of …

For children, learning often occurs in the presence of background noise. As such, there is
growing desire to improve a child's access to a target signal in noise. Given adult musicians' …

The idea that musical training improves speech perception in challenging listening
environments is appealing and of clinical importance, yet the mechanisms of any such …