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 …

Does rhythmic neural activity merely echo the rhythmic features of the environment, or does
it reflect a fundamental computational mechanism of the brain? This debate has generated a …

Neuronal oscillations putatively track speech in order to optimize sensory processing.
However, it is unclear how isochronous brain oscillations can track pseudo-rhythmic speech …

Oscillation-based models of speech perception postulate a cortical computational principle
by which decoding is performed within a window structure derived by a segmentation …

The ability to synchronize body movements with quasi-regular auditory stimuli represents a
fundamental trait in humans at the core of speech and music. Despite the long trajectory of …

The pupil of the eye provides a rich source of information for cognitive scientists, as it can
index a variety of bodily states (eg, arousal, fatigue) and cognitive processes (eg, attention …

People of all ages display the ability to detect and learn from patterns in seemingly random
stimuli. Referred to as statistical learning (SL), this process is particularly critical when …

Phonological statistical learning-our ability to extract meaningful regularities from spoken
language-is considered critical in the early stages of language acquisition, in particular for …

Ample evidence shows that the human brain carefully tracks acoustic temporal regularities
in the input, perhaps by entraining cortical neural oscillations to the rate of the stimulation …

Intentionally or not, humans produce rhythmic behaviors (eg, walking, speaking, and
clapping). In 1974, Paul Fraisse defined rhythmic behavior as a periodic movement that …