Michael W. Weiss

TL;DR: It is shown that subcortical and cortical neural plasticity interact to yield the linguistic advantages observed with musicianship, and infer that musicians have a refined hierarchy of internalized representations for auditory objects at both pre‐attentive and attentive levels that supplies more faithful phonemic templates to decision mechanisms governing linguistic operations.

TL;DR: The possibility that melodies might be remembered better when presented vocally rather than instrumentally was explored, which may result in greater depth of processing and enhanced memory for musical details.

TL;DR: It is shown that the so-called “distribution phase” in biexponential disposition curves is related to a monoexponential mixing curve of its corresponding noneliminating system with an equilibration or mixing half-time, t1/2,M=t1/ 2,α(Vβ/Vss*), where Vss*denotes the distribution volume of the nonelIMinating system.

TL;DR: Pupil dilation was greater for vocal melodies than for piano melodies in the exposure phase and in the test phase, providing the first evidence that pupillometry can be used to measure recognition of stimuli that unfold over several seconds and supporting the more general notion of the voice as a privileged signal.

TL;DR: It is inferred that neural sonifications of speech-evoked brainstem responses could be used in the early detection of speech–language impairments due to neurodegenerative disorders, or in objectively measuring individual differences in speech reception solely by listening to individuals' brain activity.