Speech perception

Prosodic structure as a parallel to musical structure

What structural properties do language and music share? Although early speculation identified a wide variety of possibilities, the literature has largely focused on the parallels between musical structure and syntactic structure. Here, we argue that …

Speech perception, rapid temporal processing, and the left hemisphere: A case study of unilateral pure word deafness

The mechanisms and functional anatomy underlying the early stages of speech perception are still not well understood. One way to investigate the cognitive and neural underpinnings of speech perception is by investigating patients with speech …