Isabelle Peretz

4 days ago | biorxiv.org | Mila Bertolo |Michael Weiss |Isabelle Peretz |Jon Sakata

AbstractIsochrony - as in the regular beat of a metronome - is cross-culturally ubiquitous in music. Is this ubiquity due to a widespread biological inclination for acoustic communication having isochronous structure? If so, it should be present in lesser-studied vocal music, in the absence of musical training, and in comparable non-human species' vocalizations. We quantified isochrony in an untrained expression of musicality: improvised songs from non-musician adults and children.

Oct 27, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Isabelle Peretz

While advantages of seeing with two eyes (i.e., binocular vision) were noted many centuries ago by ancient Greek scholars including Klaudios Ptolemaios (c. 100–c. 178CE), those of hearing with two ears (i.e., binaural hearing) were not reported until the end of the 18th century (Wells, 1792; Venturi, 1796, 1802).

Aug 1, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Isabelle Peretz

Functional and structural asymmetries are present in many regions of the brain. The present Research Topic continues the description of studies on hemispheric asymmetries in the auditory domain (Westerhausen et al., 2014; Prete et al., 2016). The longest known is the left-lateralization of speech understanding (Della Penna et al., 2007; D'Anselmo et al., 2013). So far, many hemispheric asymmetries have been described for different kinds of auditory processing.

Jul 3, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Isabelle Peretz

As the most prevalent sensory disorder, hearing loss causes patients a great deal of hardship and leads to a number of psychological and mental disorders. Such as the elderly individuals with presbycusis will causing social isolation, depressive symptoms and mild cognitive impairment. In addition, the cochlear hair cell loss and the degradation of auditory cortex are typical pathological alterations that lead to presbycusis.