This chapter reviews the event-related potential (ERP) method and its application in second
language research. The primary aim is to familiarize readers with the fundamental principles …

Historically, the brainstem has been neglected as a part of the brain involved in language
processing. We review recent evidence of language-dependent effects in pitch processing …

Previous studies have suggested that the perception of vowels and consonants changes
from language-universal to language-specific between 6 and 12months of age. This report …

Speech sound patterns can be discerned using multiple acoustic cues. The relative
weighting of these cues is known to be language-specific. Speech-sound training in adults …

One of the benefits musicians derive from their training is an increased ability to detect small
differences between sounds. Here, we asked whether musicians' experience discriminating …

The present study investigated the neurophysiological correlates of categorical perception of
Chinese lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese. Relative to standard stimuli, both within-and …

Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous
progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward …

To assess domain specificity of experience-dependent pitch representation we evaluated
the mismatch negativity (MMN) and discrimination judgments of English musicians, English …

Are there bi-directional influences between speech perception and music perception? An
answer to this question is essential for understanding the extent to which the speech and …

By recording auditory electrical brain potentials, we investigated whether the basic sound
parameters (frequency, duration and intensity) are differentially encoded among speech vs …