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 …

Neural oscillations subserve a broad range of functions in speech processing and language
comprehension. On the one hand, speech contains—somewhat—repetitive trains of air …

Reconstructing intended speech from neural activity using brain-computer interfaces holds
great promises for people with severe speech production deficits. While decoding overt …

We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

A landmark account of the neurobiological basis of language—arguing that species-specific
brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language. Language makes …

The social mind is tailored to the problem of predicting the mental states and actions of other
people. However, social cognition researchers have only scratched the surface of the …

Research on speech processing is often focused on a phenomenon termed “entrainment”,
whereby the cortex shadows rhythmic acoustic information with oscillatory activity …

Humans excel at understanding speech even in adverse conditions such as background
noise. Speech processing may be aided by cortical activity in the delta and theta frequency …

Some recent theoretical accounts in the cognitive sciences suggest that prediction is
necessary to understand language. Here we evaluate this proposal. We consider arguments …

Recent decades have ushered in tremendous progress in understanding the neural basis of
language. Most of our current knowledge on language and the brain, however, is derived …