The effects of music training in relation to brain plasticity have caused excitement, evident
from the popularity of books on this topic among scientists and the general public …

The human soundscape is characterized by complex sounds with rich harmonic structures,
dynamic amplitude modulations, and rapid spectrotemporal fluctuations. This complexity is …

Now in its third edition, this practical introduction to forensic linguistics is required reading for
students of language and the law. It includes: new chapters on identifying forensic texts and …

Objective: To investigate the effect of musical training on speech-in-noise (SIN)
performance, a complex task requiring the integration of working memory and stream …

Page 1 Auditory Neuroscience Making Sense of Sound Jan Schnupp, Israel Nelken, and
Andrew King Page 2 Auditory Neuroscience Page 3 Page 4 Auditory Neuroscience Making …

Introduction Rhythm organises musical events into patterns and forms, and rhythm
perception in music is usually studied by using metrical tasks. Metrical structure also plays …

Musicians have lifelong experience parsing melodies from background harmonies, which
can be considered a process analogous to speech perception in noise. To investigate the …

A growing body of research suggests that cognitive functions, such as attention and memory,
drive perception by tuning sensory mechanisms to relevant acoustic features. Long-term …

Training programs aimed to alleviate or improve auditory-cognitive abilities have either
experienced mixed success or remain to be fully validated. The limited benefits of such …

An illusion is explored in which a spoken phrase is perceptually transformed to sound like
song rather than speech, simply by repeating it several times over. In experiment I, subjects …