A Krishnan, JT Gandour - Brain and language, 2009 - Elsevier
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 …
HH Yeung, KH Chen, JF Werker - Journal of memory and language, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …
B Chandrasekaran, PD Sampath… - The Journal of the …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
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 …
J Xi, L Zhang, H Shu, Y Zhang, P Li - Neuroscience, 2010 - Elsevier
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 …
B Chandrasekaran, A Krishnan, JT Gandour - Brain and language, 2009 - Elsevier
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 …