Speech processing in the human brain is grounded in non-specific auditory processing in
the general mammalian brain, but relies on human-specific adaptations for processing …

The notion of “engagement,” which plays an important role in various domains of
psychology, is gaining increased currency as a concept that is critical to the success of …

During speech perception, a central task of the auditory cortex is to analyze complex
acoustic patterns to allow detection of the words that encode a linguistic message [1]. It is …

The impact of concrete poetry as a strategy to increase word recognition in ten K-2 Filipino
children with low oracy/literacy in English was examined in this six-month study utilizing the …

To understand language, we need to recognize words and combine them into phrases and
sentences. During this process, responses to the words themselves are changed. In a step …

Neural oscillations track linguistic information during speech comprehension (Ding et al.,
2016; Keitel et al., 2018), and are known to be modulated by acoustic landmarks and …

Speech comprehension requires rapid online processing of a continuous acoustic signal to
extract structure and meaning. Previous studies on sentence comprehension have found …

To understand human language—both spoken and signed—the listener or viewer has to
parse the continuous external signal into components. The question of what those …

Paying attention to one speaker in a noisy place can be extremely difficult, because to-be-
attended and task-irrelevant speech compete for processing resources. We tested whether …

Historically, clinical evaluation of unresponsive patients following brain injury has relied
principally on serial behavioral examination to search for emerging signs of consciousness …