The recognition of spoken language has typically been studied by focusing on either words
or their constituent elements (for example, low-level features or phonemes). More recently …

Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterised by slow and inaccurate
word recognition. Dyslexia has been reported in every culture studied, and mounting …

The ability to focus on and understand one talker in a noisy social environment is a critical
social-cognitive capacity, whose underlying neuronal mechanisms are unclear. We …

Speech production has been studied predominantly from within two traditions,
psycholinguistics and motor control. These traditions have rarely interacted, and the …

Mounting evidence suggests that musical training benefits the neural encoding of speech.
This paper offers a hypothesis specifying why such benefits occur. The “OPERA” hypothesis …

How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech is
unknown. To address this question, we used intracranial recordings from nonprimary …

How natural speech is represented in the auditory cortex constitutes a major challenge for
cognitive neuroscience. Although many single-unit and neuroimaging studies have yielded …

Speech perception consists of a set of computations that take continuously varying acoustic
waveforms as input and generate discrete representations that make contact with the lexical …

All human infants acquire language, but their brains do not know which language/s to
prepare for. This observation suggests that there are fundamental components of the speech …

Speech contains temporal structure that the brain must analyze to enable linguistic
processing. To investigate the neural basis of this analysis, we used sound quilts, stimuli …