It has become widely accepted that humans use contextual information to infer the meaning
of ambiguous acoustic signals. In speech, for example, high-level semantic, syntactic, or …

In a naturalistic environment, auditory cues are often accompanied by information from other
senses, which can be redundant with or complementary to the auditory information …

Human language stands out in the natural world as a biological signal that uses a structured
system to combine the meanings of small linguistic units (eg, words) into larger constituents …

Listening requires selective neural processing of the incoming sound mixture, which in
humans is borne out by a surprisingly clean representation of attended-only speech in …

Speech recognition crucially relies on slow temporal modulations (< 16 Hz) in speech.
Recent studies, however, have demonstrated that the long-delay echoes, which are …

Recognizing speech in noisy environments is a challenging task that involves both auditory
and language mechanisms. Previous studies have demonstrated human auditory cortex can …

Sensory thalami are central sensory pathway stations for information processing. Their role
for human cognition and perception, however, remains unclear. Recent evidence suggests …

Highlights•Sound perception in noisy environments is a major challenge for the auditory
system.•Adaptation to sound statistics helps to form noise-tolerant neural representations.• …

The syllable is a perceptually salient unit in speech. Since both the syllable and its acoustic
correlate, ie, the speech envelope, have a preferred range of rhythmicity between 4 and 8 …

When speech is masked by competing sound, people are better at understanding what is
said if the talker is familiar compared to unfamiliar. The benefit is robust, but how does …