An understanding of how the human brain produces cognition ultimately depends on
knowledge of large-scale brain organization. Although it has long been assumed that …

Spoken language recognition refers to the automatic process through which we determine
or verify the identity of the language spoken in a speech sample. We study a computational …

Rhythm is a phenomenon that fundamentally affects the perception of events unfolding in
time. In language, we define 'rhythm'as the temporal structure that underlies the perception …

The present study investigated the neurophysiological correlates of categorical perception of
Chinese lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese. Relative to standard stimuli, both within-and …

When listening to speech we not only form predictions about what is coming next, but also
when something is coming. For example, metric stress may be utilized to predict the next …

Family dogs are exposed to a continuous flow of human speech throughout their lives.
However, the extent of their abilities in speech perception is unknown. Here, we used …

Spoken word recognition is achieved via competition between activated lexical candidates
that match the incoming speech input. The competition is modulated by prelexical cues that …

How does a child rapidly acquire and develop a structured mental organization for the vast
number of words in the first years of life? How does a bilingual individual deal with the even …

The competition model (CM) made its debut in Bates and MacWhinney (1982) as a
mechanistic explanation of language acquisition. Since its inception, there have been a …

Bilinguals understand when the communication context calls for speaking a particular
language and can switch from speaking one language to speaking the other based on such …