Adaptive Resonance Theory, or ART, is a cognitive and neural theory of how the brain
autonomously learns to categorize, recognize, and predict objects and events in a changing …

Animal acoustic communication often takes the form of complex sequences, made up of
multiple distinct acoustic units. Apart from the well‐known example of birdsong, other …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

A theory of attentional dynamics is proposed and aimed at explaining how listeners respond
to systematic change in everyday events while retaining a general sense of their rhythmic …

This fully updated and revised sixth edition of Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and
Physiological Acoustics provides a comprehensive introduction for graduate students and …

Language involves a duality of patterning, as Hockett (1954) has noted. On the one hand,
there are patterns that pertain to the way that sounds are organized; on the other, there are …

Understanding spoken language requires a complex series of processing stages to translate
speech sounds into meaning. In this study, we use functional magnetic resonance imaging …

Speech comprehension is resistant to acoustic distortion in the input, reflecting listeners'
ability to adjust perceptual processes to match the speech input. For noise-vocoded …

This paper focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of speech perception: the rapid,
and highly automatic processes by which complex time-varying speech signals are …

There are two widely divergent theories about the relation of speech to language. The more
conventional view holds that the elements of speech are sounds that rely for their production …