A5032608645- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Infant Health and Development
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Multimedia Communication and Technology
- Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Color perception and design
- Augmented Reality Applications
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Noise Effects and Management
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Music Therapy and Health
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
Boston Children's Hospital
2025
Health Innovations (United States)
2024
Northwestern University
2015-2024
Communications Technology Laboratory
2015
University of Florida
2012
Significance Sensitivity to fine timing cues in speech is thought play a key role language learning, facilitating the development of phonological processing. In fact, link between beat synchronization, which requires auditory–motor synchrony, and skills has been found school-aged children, as well adults. Here, we show this relationship entrainment metrics preschoolers use synchronization ability predict precision neural encoding syllables these emergent readers. By establishing links...
Aging results in pervasive declines nervous system function. In the auditory system, these include neural timing delays response to fast-changing speech elements; this causes older adults experience difficulty understanding speech, especially challenging listening environments. These age-related are not inevitable, however: with a lifetime of music training do exhibit delays. Yet many people play an instrument for few years without making lifelong commitment. Here, we examined group human...
Learning to read is a fundamental developmental milestone, and achieving reading competency has lifelong consequences. Although literacy development proceeds smoothly for many children, subset struggle with this learning process, creating need identify reliable biomarkers of child's future that could facilitate early diagnosis access crucial interventions. Neural markers skills have been identified in school-aged children adults; pertain the precision information processing noise, but it...
Much of our basic understanding cognitive and social processes in infancy relies on measures looking time, specifically infants’ visual preference for a novel or familiar stimulus. However, despite being the foundation many behavioral tasks infant research, determinants preferences are poorly understood, differences expression can be difficult to interpret. In this large-scale study, we test predictions from Hunter Ames model infants' preferences. We investigate effects three factors...
Recent evidence reveals a precocious link between language and cognition in human infants: listening to their native supports infants’ core cognitive processes, including object categorization, does so way that other acoustic signals (e.g., time-reversed speech; sine-wave tone sequences) do not. Moreover, is not the only signal confers this advantage: vocalizations of non-human primates also categorization 3- 4-month-olds. Here, we move beyond primate clarify breadth promote infant...
As scientists interested in fetal, infant, and toddler (FIT) neurodevelopment, our research questions often focus on how individual children differ their neurodevelopment the predictive value of those differences for long-term neural behavioral outcomes. Measuring interpreting can present challenges: Is there a "standard" way human brain to develop? How do semantic, practical, or theoretical constraints that we place studying "development" influence measure interpret differences? While it is...
Background: Click-evoked auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) are a valuable tool for probing system function and development. Although it has long been thought that the human is fully mature by age 2 yr, recent evidence indicates prolonged developmental trajectory. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine time course ABR maturation in preschool population fill gap knowledge Research Design: Using cross-sectional design, we investigated effect on absolute latencies, interwave...
Abstract Speech signals contain information in hierarchical time scales, ranging from short-duration (e.g., phonemes) to long-duration cues syllables, prosody). A theoretical framework understand how the brain processes this hierarchy suggests that hemispheric lateralization enables specialized tracking of acoustic at different with left and right hemispheres sampling short (25 ms; 40 Hz) long (200 5 periods, respectively. In adults, both speech-evoked endogenous cortical rhythms are...
The ability to synchronize motor movements along with an auditory beat places stringent demands on the temporal processing and sensorimotor integration capabilities of nervous system. Links between millisecond-level precision consistency synchronization implicate fine neural timing as a mechanism for forming stable internal representations of, behavioral reactions to, sound. Here, first time, we demonstrate systematic relationship trial-by-trial stability subcortical speech in preschoolers...
Speech rhythms guide perception, especially in noise. We recently revealed that percussionists outperform non-musicians speech-in-noise with better perception associated rhythm discrimination across a range of rhythmic expertise. Here, we consider production skills, specifically drumming to beat (metronome or music) and sequences (metrical jittered patterns), as well adult non-musicians. Given the absence regular speech, hypothesise processing is more important for than ability entrain beat....
Abstract The power and precision with which humans link language to cognition is unique our species. By 3–4 months of age, infants have already established this link: simply listening human facilitates infants’ success in fundamental cognitive processes. Initially, also engaged by a broader set acoustic stimuli, including non‐human primate vocalizations (but not other sounds, like backwards speech). But 6 months, no longer confer advantage that persists for speech. What remains unknown the...
Much of our basic understanding cognitive and social processes in infancy relies on measures looking time, specifically infants’ visual preference for a novel or familiar stimulus. However, despite being the foundation many behavioral tasks infant research, determinants preferences are poorly understood, differences expression can be difficult to interpret. In this large-scale study, we test predictions from Hunter Ames model infants' preferences. We investigate effects three factors...
For perceptual learning on fine-grained discrimination tasks, improvement can be enhanced or disrupted when two tasks are trained, depending how the training those is distributed. To investigate if this phenomenon extends to speech learning, we trained native-English speakers transcribe both Mandarin- and Turkish-accented English sentences using one of three different configurations same stimuli. After training, all groups performed better than untrained controls, similarly each other, a...