Communicative, predatory, and reproductive behaviors rely on the auditory thalamocortical
system, a key nexus that combines, transforms, and distributes virtually all acoustic …

Although our sense of hearing is exploited for many ends, its communicative function stands
paramount in our daily lives. Humans are, by nature, a vocal species, and it is perhaps not …

We systematically determined which spectrotemporal modulations in speech are necessary
for comprehension by human listeners. Speech comprehension has been shown to be …

Amplitude modulation (AM) and frequency modulation (FM) are commonly used in
communication, but their relative contributions to speech recognition have not been fully …

Languages show systematic variation in their sound patterns and grammars. Accordingly,
they have been classified into typological categories such as stress-timed vs syllable-timed …

In this paper we investigate the modulation domain as an alternative to the acoustic domain
for speech enhancement. More specifically, we wish to determine how competitive the …

The temporal modulation structure of adult-directed speech (ADS) is thought to be encoded
by neuronal oscillations in the auditory cortex that fluctuate at different temporal rates …

This study investigates masking effects occurring during speech comprehension in the
presence of concurrent speech signals. We examined the differential effects of acoustic …

Humans unconsciously track a wide array of distributional characteristics in their sensory
environment. Recent research in spoken-language processing has demonstrated that the …

Cortical sensitivity in representations of behaviorally relevant complex input signals was
examined in recordings from primary auditory cortical neurons (AI) in adult, barbiturate …