Music is used to regulate mood and arousal in everyday life and to promote physical and
psychological health and well-being in clinical settings. However, scientific inquiry into the …

Flexible piezoelectric acoustic sensors have been developed to generate multiple sound
signals with high sensitivity, shifting the paradigm of future voice technologies. Speech …

The association between hearing impairment and dementia has emerged as a major public
health challenge, with significant opportunities for earlier diagnosis, treatment and …

The hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis is the major endocrine stress axis of the
human organism. Cortisol, the final hormone of this axis, affects metabolic, cardiovascular …

Music therapy as an intervention in medical, educational and many other environments has
a rich and diverse history of methods, approaches and models. Consolidating the many …

An fMRI experiment was performed to identify the main stages of melody processing in the
auditory pathway. Spectrally matched sounds that produce no pitch, fixed pitch, or melody …

A striking property of speech perception is its resilience in the face of acoustic variability
(among speech sounds produced by different speakers at different times, for example). The …

Abstract Objects are the building blocks of experience, but what do we mean by an object?
Increasingly, neuroscientists refer to'auditory objects', yet it is not clear what properties these …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

The neuroanatomical correlates of musical structure were investigated using functional
magnetic neuroimaging (fMRI) and a unique stimulus manipulation involving scrambled …