It is increasingly recognized that the human planum temporale is not a dedicated language
processor, but is in fact engaged in the analysis of many types of complex sound. We …

In the present review, we summarize the most recent findings and current views about the
structural and functional basis of human brain lateralization in the auditory modality. Main …

The 'asymmetric sampling in time'(AST) hypothesis developed here provides a framework
for understanding a range of psychophysical and neuropsychological data on speech …

The present article outlines the contribution of the mismatch negativity (MMN), and its
magnetic equivalent MMNm, to our understanding of the perception of speech sounds in the …

Mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the event-related brain potentials has become
popular in cognitive and clinical brain research during the recent years. It is an early …

Abstract Language experience shapes infants' abilities to process speech sounds, with
universal phonetic discrimination abilities narrowing in the second half of the first year. Brain …

The neurobiological organization of meaningful language units, morphemes and words, has
been illuminated by recent metabolic and neurophysiological imaging studies. When …

Which aspects of language and cognitive processing take place irrespective of whether
subjects focus their attention on incoming stimuli and are, in this sense, automatic? The …

How long does it take the human mind to grasp the idea when hearing or reading a
sentence? Neurophysiological methods looking directly at the time course of brain activity …

Brain responses to the same spoken syllable completing a Finnish word or a pseudo-word
were studied. Native Finnish-speaking subjects were instructed to ignore the sound stimuli …