The brain has an extraordinary ability to functionally and physically change or reconfigure its
structure in response to environmental stimulus, cognitive demand, or behavioral …

The effects of music training in relation to brain plasticity have caused excitement, evident
from the popularity of books on this topic among scientists and the general public …

Stroke has long been regarded as focal disease with circumscribed damage leading to
neurological deficits. However, advances in methods for assessing the human brain and in …

Rather than passively 'waiting'to be activated by sensations, it is proposed that the human
brain is continuously busy generating predictions that approximate the relevant future …

Studies evaluating phonological contrast learning typically investigate either the
predictiveness of specific pretraining aptitude measures or the efficacy of different …

The McGurk effect is a compelling illusion in which humans perceive mismatched
audiovisual speech as a completely different syllable. However, some normal individuals do …

The current study investigates the learning of nonnative suprasegmental patterns for word
identification. Native English-speaking adults learned to use suprasegmentals (pitch …

Spoken language processing in noisy environments, a hallmark of the human brain, is
subject to age-related decline, even when peripheral hearing might be intact. The present …

A great deal of research has examined behavioral performance changes associated with
second language learning. But what changes are taking place in the brain as learning …

Peripheral and central structures along the auditory pathway contribute to speech
processing and learning. However, because speech requires the use of functionally and …