Speech perception is essential for daily communication. Background noise or concurrent
talkers, on the other hand, can make it challenging for listeners to track the target speech (ie …

Natural and artificial audition can in principle acquire different solutions to a given problem.
The constraints of the task, however, can nudge the cognitive science and engineering of …

This psychoacoustic study provides behavioural evidence that neural entrainment in the
theta range (3–9 Hz) causally shapes speech perception. Adopting the “rate normalization” …

Speech perception is mediated by both left and right auditory cortices but with differential
sensitivity to specific acoustic information contained in the speech signal. A detailed …

Temporal resolution needed for Japanese speech communication was measured. A new
experimental paradigm that can reflect the spectro-temporal resolution necessary for healthy …

Irrelevant speech is known to interfere with short-term memory of visually presented items.
Here, this irrelevant speech effect was studied with a factorial combination of three variables …

Intelligibility of temporally degraded speech was investigated with locally time-reversed
speech (LTR) and its interrupted version (ILTR). Control stimuli comprising interrupted …

Visual-verbal serial recall is disrupted when task-irrelevant background speech has to be
ignored. Contrary to previous suggestion, it has recently been shown that the magnitude of …

Abstract Language comprehension depends on the ability to temporally process the periodic
structure of the language signal. In this study we investigate temporal processing of Spanish …

Providing participants with an opportunity to listen to a forthcoming distracter sentence has
been shown to attenuate its disruptive effect on short-term memory. On the stimulus-specific …