Objective: Music and speech are complex signals containing regularities in how they unfold
in time. Similarities between music and speech/language in terms of their auditory features …

Research on the exploitation of prosodic information in the comprehension of spoken
language is reviewed. The research falls into three main areas: the use of prosody in the …

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 …

Psycholinguistic data are often analyzed with repeated-measures analyses of variance
(ANOVA), but this paper argues that mixed-effects (multilevel) models provide a better …

A common complaint among listeners with hearing loss (HL) is that they have difficulty
communicating in common social settings. This article reviews how normal-hearing listeners …

There is now a vigorous debate over the evolutionary status of music. Some scholars argue
that humans have been shaped by evolution to be musical, while others maintain that …

While natural speech does not possess the same degree of temporal regularity found in
music, there is recent evidence to suggest that temporal regularity enhances speech …

Children from low-socioeconomic backgrounds tend to fall progressively further behind their
higher-income peers over the course of their academic careers. Music training has been …

Three experiments investigated the role of distal (ie, nonlocal) prosody in word
segmentation and lexical processing. In Experiment 1, prosodic characteristics of the initial …

The present study examined lexical stress in the context of silent reading by measuring eye
movements. We asked whether lexical stress registers in the eye movement record and, if …