Familiarity in music has been reported as an important factor modulating emotional and
hedonic responses in the brain. Familiarity and repetition may increase the liking of a piece …

Adults and infants can use the statistical properties of syllable sequences to extract words
from continuous speech. Here we present a review of a series of electrophysiological …

Although emotion detection using electroencephalogram (EEG) data has become a highly
active area of research over the last decades, little attention has been paid to stimulus …

In recent years, psychological models of perception have undergone reevaluation due to a
broadening of focus toward understanding not only how observers perceive stimuli but also …

Sounds that have been produced with one's own motor system tend to be remembered
better than sounds that have only been perceived, suggesting a role of motor information in …

Repeated listening to unknown music leads to gradual familiarization with musical
sequences. Passively listening to musical sequences could involve an array of dynamic …

Congenital amusia has been described as a lifelong deficit of music perception and
production, notably including amusic individuals' difficulties to recognize a familiar tune …

In this study, we investigated whether the ERP responses observed during a verbal irony
comprehension task might represent the cortical manifestation of the Medial Prefrontal …

Human communication in a natural context implies the dynamic coordination of contextual
clues, paralinguistic information and literal as well as figurative language use. In the present …

The goal of the present study was to shed some light on a particular kind of humour, called
slapstick, by measuring brain bioelectrical activity during the perception of funny vs. non …