Vocal learners such as humans and songbirds can learn to produce elaborate patterns of
structurally organized vocalizations, whereas many other vertebrates such as non-human …

While advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) throughout the last decades have
enabled the detailed anatomical and functional inspection of the human brain non …

Evolution provides an important window into how cortical organization shapes function and
vice versa. The complex mosaic of changes in brain morphology and functional organization …

Brain communication, defined as information transmission through white-matter
connections, is at the foundation of the brain's computational capacities that subtend almost …

Rainstorms, insect swarms, and galloping horses produce" sound textures"—the collective
result of many similar acoustic events. Sound textures are distinguished by temporal …

The human superior temporal gyrus (STG) is critical for speech perception, yet the
organization of spectrotemporal processing of speech within the STG is not well understood …

Music is a cultural universal and a rich part of the human experience. However, little is
known about common brain systems that support the processing and integration of …

Subcortical brain structures of the limbic system, such as the amygdala, are thought to
decode the emotional value of sensory information. Recent neuroimaging studies, as well as …

Acoustic rhythms are pervasive in speech, music, and environmental sounds. Recent
evidence for neural codes representing periodic information suggests that they may be a …

An evolutionary account of human language as a neurobiological system must distinguish
between human-unique neurocognitive processes supporting language and evolutionarily …