Musical training has emerged as a useful framework for the investigation of training-related
plasticity in the human brain. Learning to play an instrument is a highly complex task that …

Background Aphasia is an acquired language impairment following brain damage that
affects some or all language modalities: expression and understanding of speech, reading …

Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory, and motor experience that usually
commences at an early age and requires the acquisition and maintenance of a range of …

The loss and recovery of language functions are still incompletely understood. This
longitudinal functional MRI study investigated the neural mechanisms underlying language …

Music listening and music making activities are powerful tools to engage multisensory and
motor networks, induce changes within these networks, and foster links between distant, but …

Training programs aimed to alleviate or improve auditory-cognitive abilities have either
experienced mixed success or remain to be fully validated. The limited benefits of such …

The neural correlates of creativity are poorly understood. Freestyle rap provides a unique
opportunity to study spontaneous lyrical improvisation, a multidimensional form of creativity …

Using a pre-post design, eleven chronic stroke patients with large left hemisphere lesions
and nonfluent aphasia underwent diffusion tensor imaging and language testing before and …

Theories expounding the neural relationship between speech and singing range from
sharing neural circuitry, to relying on opposite hemispheres. Yet, hodological studies …

Sensitive periods in human development have often been proposed to explain age-related
differences in the attainment of a number of skills, such as a second language (L2) and …