The effects of music training in relation to brain plasticity have caused excitement, evident
from the popularity of books on this topic among scientists and the general public …

The human soundscape is characterized by complex sounds with rich harmonic structures,
dynamic amplitude modulations, and rapid spectrotemporal fluctuations. This complexity is …

Languages can use a common repertoire of vocal sounds to signify distinct meanings. In
tonal languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, pitch contours of syllables distinguish one …

Previous studies have suggested that the perception of vowels and consonants changes
from language-universal to language-specific between 6 and 12months of age. This report …

Speech sound patterns can be discerned using multiple acoustic cues. The relative
weighting of these cues is known to be language-specific. Speech-sound training in adults …

Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder that affects the processing of musical pitch in
speakers of non-tonal languages like English and French. We assessed whether this …

Behavioral and neurophysiological transfer effects from music experience to language
processing are well-established but it is currently unclear whether or not linguistic expertise …

Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous
progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward …

To assess domain specificity of experience-dependent pitch representation we evaluated
the mismatch negativity (MMN) and discrimination judgments of English musicians, English …

Adults struggle to learn non-native speech contrasts even after years of exposure. While
laboratory-based training approaches yield learning, the optimal training conditions for …