A growing body of research suggests that musical training has a beneficial impact on
speech processing (eg, hearing of speech in noise and prosody perception). As this …

Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the remarkable fidelity with
which the human auditory brainstem represents key acoustic features of the speech signal …

Mounting evidence suggests that musical training benefits the neural encoding of speech.
This paper offers a hypothesis specifying why such benefits occur. The “OPERA” hypothesis …

Video game enthusiasts spend many hours at play, and this intense activity has the potential
to alter both brain and behavior. We review studies that investigate the ability of video …

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

Neuropsychiatric illnesses are associated with dysfunction in distributed prefrontal neural
systems that underlie perception, cognition, social interactions, emotion regulation, and …

The modern cochlear implant (CI) is the most successful neural prosthesis developed to
date. CIs provide hearing to the profoundly hearing impaired and allow the acquisition of …

Although the adult brain was once seen as a rather static organ, it is now clear that the
organization of brain circuitry is constantly changing as a function of experience or learning …

Much of our daily communication occurs in the presence of background noise,
compromising our ability to hear. While understanding speech in noise is a challenge for …

The primary objective of this review article is to summarize how the neuroscience of brain
plasticity, exploiting new findings in fundamental, integrative and cognitive neuroscience, is …