Learning to decode and produce speech is one of the most demanding tasks faced by
infants. Nevertheless, infants typically utter their first words within a year, and phrases soon …

Studies in the neuroscience of music gained momentum in the 1990s as an integrated part
of the well-controlled experimental research tradition. However, during the past two …

Highlights•Auditory midbrain and thalamus support predictive coding and speech
encoding.•Corticofugal projections are involved, but their specific roles need to be …

Purpose: The aim of the present study is to characterize the maturational changes during the
first 6 months of life in the neural encoding of two speech sound features relevant for early …

Exposure to maternal speech during the prenatal period shapes speech perception and
linguistic preferences, allowing neonates to recognize stories heard frequently in utero and …

Introduction Infants born very early preterm are at high risk of language delays. However,
less is known about the consequences of late prematurity. Hence, the aim of the present …

Infants quickly recognize the sounds of their mother language, perceiving the
spectrotemporal acoustic features of speech. However, the underlying neural machinery …

Bainbridge, CM, Bertolo, M., Youngers, J., Atwood, S., Yurdum, L., Simson, J., Lopez, K.,
Xing, F., Martin, A., & Mehr, SA (2021). Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign …

In recent years, the use of music as a therapeutic and developmental tool for infants,
especially within neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), has seen a surge in interest. Despite …

Exposure to maternal speech during the prenatal period shapes speech perception and
linguistic preferences, allowing neonates to recognize stories heard frequently in utero and …