[Frontiers in Bioscience S6, 92-109, January 1, 2014] 92 How do we recognise who is
speaking? Samuel R. Mathias1,2, Katharina vo Page 1 [Frontiers in Bioscience S6, 92-109 …

Glottal-pulse rate (GPR) and vocal-tract length (VTL) are related to the size, sex, and age of
the speaker but it is not clear how the two factors combine to influence our perception of …

Objectives: When listening to two competing speakers, normal-hearing (NH) listeners can
take advantage of voice differences between the speakers. Users of cochlear implants (CIs) …

Congenital amusia refers to a lifelong disorder of music processing and is linked to pitch-
processing deficits. The present study investigated congenital amusics' short-term memory …

Developmental dyslexia, a severe and persistent reading and spelling impairment, is
characterized by difficulties in processing speech sounds (ie, phonemes). Here, we test the …

In the speech-to-song illusion, certain spoken phrases are perceived as sung after
repetition. One possible explanation for this increase in musicality is that, as phrases are …

We understand speech from different speakers with ease, whereas artificial speech
recognition systems struggle with this task. It is unclear how the human brain solves this …

The length of the vocal tract is correlated with speaker size and, so, speech sounds have
information about the size of the speaker in a form that is interpretable by the listener. A wide …

How do humans flexibly respond to changing environmental demands on a subsecond
temporal scale? Extensive research has highlighted the key role of the prefrontal cortex in …

Behavioral and neuropsychological studies have suggested that tonal and verbal short‐term
memory are supported by specialized neural networks. To date however, neuroimaging …