Scholarly debates about the nature of human emotion traditionally pit biological and cultural
influences against one another. Although many existing theories acknowledge the role of …

Music has existed in human societies since prehistory, perhaps because it allows
expression and regulation of emotion and evokes pleasure. In this review, we present …

Speech perception requires the effortless mapping from smooth, seemingly continuous
changes in sound features into discrete perceptual units, a conversion exemplified in the …

Selective attention to relevant sound properties is essential for everyday listening situations.
It enables the formation of different perceptual representations of the same acoustic input …

The brain9s circuitry for perceiving and producing speech may show a notable level of
overlap that is crucial for normal development and behavior. The extent to which …

Listeners must accomplish two complementary perceptual feats in extracting a message
from speech. They must discriminate linguistically-relevant acoustic variability and …

Humans are born as “universal listeners” without a bias toward any particular language.
However, over the first year of life, infants' perception is shaped by learning native speech …

Experienced musicians outperform non-musicians in understanding speech-in-noise (SPIN).
The benefits of lifelong musicianship endure into older age, where musicians experience …

Grouping auditory stimuli into common categories is essential for a variety of auditory tasks,
including speech recognition. We trained human participants to categorize auditory stimuli …

Despite the multidimensional and temporally fleeting nature of auditory signals we quickly
learn to assign novel sounds to behaviorally relevant categories. The neural systems …