Although a growing literature points to substantial variation in speech/language abilities
related to individual differences in musical abilities, mainstream models of communication …

Music perception involves acoustic analysis, auditory memory, auditory scene analysis,
processing of interval relations, of musical syntax and semantics, and activation of (pre) …

This study considered a relation between rhythm perception skills and individual differences
in phonological awareness and grammar abilities, which are two language skills crucial for …

While the primary function of the basal ganglia (BG) is linked to motor behaviour, several
investigations of non-motor behaviour allocate cognitive and language-specific functions to …

Objective: Children with developmental language disorders have been shown to be
impaired not only in language processing (including syntax), but also in rhythm and meter …

Metrical patterning and rhyme are frequently employed in poetry but also in infant-directed
speech, play, rites, and festive events. Drawing on four line-stanzas from nineteenth and …

The present study aimed to examine the influence of musical expertise on the metric and
semantic aspects of speech processing. In two attentional conditions (metric and semantic …

Following findings that musical rhythmic priming enhances subsequent speech perception,
we investigated whether rhythmic priming for spoken sentences can enhance phonological …

Introduction Studies of categorical decision-making attempt to understand behavior by
probing how different features of complex and changing environments guide the selection of …

Rhythm is a phenomenon that fundamentally affects the perception of events unfolding in
time. In language, we define 'rhythm'as the temporal structure that underlies the perception …