When listening to spoken narratives, we must integrate information over multiple, concurrent
timescales, building up from words to sentences to paragraphs to a coherent narrative …

The perception of musical phrase boundaries is a critical aspect of human musical
experience: It allows us to organize, understand, derive pleasure from, and remember …

Event segmentation is a spontaneous part of perception, important for processing
continuous information and organizing it into memory. Although neural and behavioral event …

Understanding and remembering the complex experiences of everyday life relies critically
on prior schematic knowledge about how events in our world unfold over time. How does the …

This study examines whether scrambling the order of events in a tonal chord sequence
inhibits the speed and accuracy of processing in two behavioral harmonic priming …

Congenital deafness enhances responses of auditory cortices to non-auditory tasks, yet the
nature of the reorganization is not well understood. Here, naturalistic stimuli are used to …

Narrative stimuli offer a unique opportunity for research in cognitive neuroscience because
they evoke cognitive processes that are difficult or impossible to study with traditional …

In the past decades, functional MRI research has investigated task processing in largely
static fashion based on evoked responses during blocked and event-related designs …

Artificial intelligence has not achieved defining features of biological intelligence despite
models boasting more parameters than neurons in the human brain. In this perspective …

Introduction Music has a profound impact on human emotions, capable of eliciting a wide
range of emotional responses, a phenomenon that has been effectively harnessed in the …