We suggest that music perception is an active act of listening, providing an irresistible
epistemic offering. When listening to music we constantly generate plausible hypotheses …

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

Learning to decode and produce speech is one of the most demanding tasks faced by
infants. Nevertheless, infants typically utter their first words within a year, and phrases soon …

The ability to understand speech in the presence of competing sound sources is an
important neuroscience question in terms of how the nervous system solves this …

Attending to one speaker in multi-speaker situations is challenging. One neural mechanism
proposed to underlie the ability to attend to a particular speaker is phase-locking of low …

In this series of behavioural and electroencephalography (EEG) experiments, we investigate
the extent to which repeating patterns of sounds capture attention. Work in the visual domain …

We use psychophysics and MEG to test how sensitivity to input statistics facilitates auditory-
scene-analysis (ASA). Human subjects listened to 'scenes' comprised of concurrent tone-pip …

Objects are central in visual, auditory, and tactual perception. But what counts as a
perceptual object? I address this question via a structural unity schema, which specifies how …

Communication by sounds requires that the communication channels (ie speech/speakers
and other sound sources) had been established. This allows to separate concurrently active …

Predictive coding is arguably the currently dominant theoretical framework for the study of
perception. It has been employed to explain important auditory perceptual phenomena, and …