Rhythms are a fundamental and defining feature of neuronal activity in animals including
humans. This rhythmic brain activity interacts in complex ways with rhythms in the internal …

Speech and music have structured rhythms. Here we discuss a major acoustic correlate of
spoken and musical rhythms, the slow (0.25–32 Hz) temporal modulations in sound intensity …

The most critical attribute of human language is its unbounded combinatorial nature: smaller
elements can be combined into larger structures on the basis of a grammatical system …

Cognitive neuroscience, in particular research on speech and language, has seen an
increase in the use of linear modeling techniques for studying the processing of natural …

The human ability to understand speech is underpinned by a hierarchical auditory system
whose successive stages process increasingly complex attributes of the acoustic input. It …

Here we review the role of brain oscillations in sensory processing. We examine the idea
that neural entrainment of intrinsic oscillations underlies the processing of rhythmic stimuli in …

Neural oscillations subserve a broad range of functions in speech processing and language
comprehension. On the one hand, speech contains—somewhat—repetitive trains of air …

During online speech processing, our brain tracks the acoustic fluctuations in speech at
different timescales. Previous research has focused on generic timescales (for example …

The ability to predict when something will happen facilitates sensory processing and the
ensuing computations. Building on the observation that neural activity entrains to periodic …

Speech intelligibility is currently measured by scoring how well a person can identify a
speech signal. The results of such behavioral measures reflect neural processing of the …