Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for training
generalisable models on large-scale data in the fields of vision, text, and speech. Although …

Tonal languages differ from other languages in their use of pitch (tones) to distinguish
words. Lifelong experience speaking and hearing tonal languages has been argued to …

Music is an exclusive feature of humankind. It can be considered as a form of universal
communication, only partly comparable to the vocalizations of songbirds. Many trends of …

In social settings, speech waveforms from nearby speakers mix together in our ear canals.
Normally, the brain unmixes the attended speech stream from the chorus of background …

In the speech-to-song illusion, certain spoken phrases are perceived as sung after
repetition. One possible explanation for this increase in musicality is that, as phrases are …

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for training
generalisable models on large-scale data in the fields of vision, text, and speech. Although …

Speech and music are highly redundant communication systems, with multiple acoustic
cues signaling the existence of perceptual categories. This redundancy makes these …

Growing evidence suggests a broad relationship between individual differences in auditory
processing ability and the rate and ultimate attainment of language acquisition throughout …

In the cognitive psychology literature, auditory processing has been extensively researched
and suggested as a foundation of first language acquisition in childhood. This study tests an …

In this study, we propose a hypothesis that domain-general auditory processing, a
perceptual anchor of L1 acquisition, can serve as the foundation of successful post-pubertal …