The Enhanced Musical Rhythmic Perception in Second Language Learners

Foreign language learning in French speakers is associated with rhythm perception, but not with melody perception.

(2015) Anjali Bhatara et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE

Can nonlinguistic musical training change the way the brain processes speech? The expanded OPERA hypothesis

(2013) Aniruddh D. Patel   HEARING RESEARCH

High stimulus variability in nonnative speech learning supports formation of abstract categories: Evidence from Japanese geminates

(2013) Makiko Sadakata et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Speech Rhythm Facilitates Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution: ERP Evidence

(2013) Maria Paula Roncaglia-Denissen et al.   PLoS One

Tone Language Speakers and Musicians Share Enhanced Perceptual and Cognitive Abilities for Musical Pitch: Evidence for Bidirectionality between the Domains of Language and Music

(2013) Gavin M. Bidelman et al.   PLoS One

Practiced musical style shapes auditory skills

(2012) Peter Vuust et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Familiarity overrides complexity in rhythm perception: A cross-cultural comparison of American and Turkish listeners.

(2012) Erin E. Hannon et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE

Effects of Culture on Musical Pitch Perception

(2012) Patrick C. M. Wong et al.   PLoS One

Neural bases of language switching in high and early proficient bilinguals

(2011) G. Garbin et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Intensive language training and attention modulate the involvement of fronto-parietal regions during a non-verbal auditory discrimination task

(2011) Stefan Elmer et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Musicians and the Metric Structure of Words

(2010) Céline Marie et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Language-universal Sensory Deficits in Developmental Dyslexia: English, Spanish, and Chinese

(2010) Usha Goswami et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Absolute pitch among students in an American music conservatory: Association with tone language fluency

(2009) Diana Deutsch et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Musical training modulates the development of syntax processing in children

(2009) Sebastian Jentschke et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The role of musical aptitude and language skills in preattentive duration processing in school-aged children

(2009) Riia Milovanov et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

The Pairwise Variability Index and Coexisting Rhythms in Language

(2009) Francis Nolan et al.   PHONETICA

Musical Training Influences Linguistic Abilities in 8-Year-Old Children: More Evidence for Brain Plasticity

(2008) Sylvain Moreno et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Acoustic characteristics of English lexical stress produced by native Mandarin speakers

(2008) Yanhong Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Musical aptitude and second language pronunciation skills in school-aged children: Neural and behavioral evidence

(2007) Riia Milovanov et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH