Listeners usually have no difficulties telling the difference between speech and song. Yet when a spoken phrase is repeated several times, they often report perceptual transformation that turns into There great deal of variability in perception speech-to-song illusion (STS). It may result partly from linguistic properties phrases be due to individual processing listeners exposed STS. To date, e...

Understanding the origin of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAEs) in mammals has been a challenge for more than three decades. Right from the beginning two mutually exclusive concepts were explored. After 30 years this has now resulted in two well established but incompatible theories, the global standing-wave theory and the local oscillator theory. The outcome of this controversy will be i...