Historically, the brainstem has been neglected as a part of the brain involved in language
processing. We review recent evidence of language-dependent effects in pitch processing …

The popular framework of cortical entrainment postulates that speech comprehension
crucially depends on the continuous alignment of low-frequency cortical oscillatory activity …

Speech perception consists of a set of computations that take continuously varying acoustic
waveforms as input and generate discrete representations that make contact with the lexical …

To assess domain specificity of experience-dependent pitch representation we evaluated
the mismatch negativity (MMN) and discrimination judgments of English musicians, English …

Neural representation of pitch is influenced by lifelong experiences with music and
language at both cortical and subcortical levels of processing. The aim of this article is to …

Natural sounds contain information on multiple timescales, so the auditory system must
analyze and integrate acoustic information on those different scales to extract behaviorally …

Learning the Chinese tone system is a major challenge to students of Chinese as a second
or foreign language. Part of the problem is that the spoken Chinese syllable presents a …

The close relationship between temporal perception and speech processing is well
established. The present study focused on the specific question whether the speech …

In tonal languages, voice pitch inflections change the meaning of words, such that the brain
processes pitch not merely as an acoustic characterization of sound but as semantic …

Speech is a complex acoustic signal showing a quasiperiodic structure at several
timescales. Integrated neural signals recorded in the cortex also show periodicity at different …