Listening: Processes, Functions, and Competency, Second Edition explores the role of
listening as an essential element in human communication. The book addresses listening as …

The human voice provides every individual with a remarkable instrument for making music.
Yet, in scholarly discourse on music, this universally available instrument often plays second …

Abstract “Cocktail party” speech perception is largely studied using either linguistic or
nonspeech noise maskers. Few studies have addressed how listeners understand speech …

Timbre is a foundational aspect of hearing. The remarkable ability of humans to recognize
sound sources and events (eg, glass breaking, a friend's voice, a tone from a piano) stems …

Adults and children with typical development (TD) remember vocal melodies (without lyrics)
better than instrumental melodies, which is attributed to the biological and social …

It has been suggested that listening to music during reading may be distracting, but the
empirical results have remained inconclusive. One limitation of previous studies is that they …

Vocal melodies sung without lyrics (la la) are remembered better than instrumental
melodies. What causes the advantage? One possibility is that vocal music elicits subvocal …

Musicality, a uniquely human and spontaneously developing trait that enables us to
perceive music, move to it, and sing, is influenced by biological, cognitive, and cultural …

Memory is a cognitive faculty that is of fundamental importance for human communication in
speech and music. How humans retain and reproduce sequences of words and pitches has …

Recognition memory is better for vocal melodies than instrumental melodies. Here we
examine whether this vocal advantage extends to recall. Thirty-one violinists learned four …