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 …

In this review, we will present a model of brain events leading to conscious perception in
audition. This represents an updated version of Näätänen's previous model of automatic and …

Phantom sensations and sensory hypersensitivity are disordered perceptions that
characterize a variety of intractable conditions involving the somatosensory, visual, and …

To identify sounds as novel, there must be some neural representation of commonly
occurring sounds. Stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) is a reduction in neural response to a …

Children with dyslexia often exhibit increased variability in sensory and cognitive aspects of
hearing relative to typically developing peers. Assistive listening devices (classroom FM …

We meta-analyzed 115 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies reporting
auditory-cortex (AC) coordinates for activations related to active and passive processing of …

The inferior colliculus (IC) is a major processing center situated mid-way along both the
ascending and descending auditory pathways of the brain stem. Although it is fundamentally …

Auditory processing is presumed to be influenced by cognitive processes–including
attentional control–in a top-down manner. In bilinguals, activation of both languages during …

Over the last four decades, a range of different neuroimaging tools have been used to study
human auditory attention, spanning from classic event-related potential studies using …