The ability to understand speech in the presence of competing sound sources is an
important neuroscience question in terms of how the nervous system solves this …

In normal-hearing (NH) adults, long-term music training may benefit music and speech
perception, even when listening to spectro-temporally degraded signals as experienced by …

This work explores the use of constant-Q transform based modulation spectral features (CQT-
MSF) for speech emotion recognition (SER). The human perception and analysis of sound …

Music training may strengthen auditory skills that help children not only in musical
performance but in everyday communication. Comparisons of musicians and non-musicians …

Music is powerful in conveying emotions and triggering affective brain mechanisms.
Affective brain responses in previous studies were however rather inconsistent, potentially …

There is much interest in the idea that musicians perform better than non-musicians in
understanding speech in background noise. Research in this area has often used energetic …

Evidence for transfer of musical training to better perception of speech in noise has been
mixed. Unlike speech-in-noise, speech-on-speech perception utilizes many of the skills that …

The goal of this study was to investigate how cognitive factors influence performance in a
multi-talker,“cocktail-party” like environment in musicians and non-musicians. This was …

The natural rhythms of speech help a listener follow what is being said, especially in noisy
conditions. There is increasing evidence for links between rhythm abilities and language …

In normal hearing (NH), the perception of the gender of a speaker is strongly affected by two
anatomically related vocal characteristics: the fundamental frequency (F0), related to vocal …