2024

Cheng, T. Z., & Zhao, T. C. (preprint). Validating a new paradigm for simultaneously assessing mismatch response and complex auditory brainstem response. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ech2z. (PDF)

Endevelt-Shapira, Y., Bosseler, A. N., Zhao, T. C., Mizrahi, J. C., Meltzoff, A. N., & Khul, P. K. (2024). Heart-to-heart: infant heart rate at 3 months is linked to infant-directed speech, mother-infant interaction, and later language outcomes. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 18: 1380075. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1380075/full. (PDF)

2023

Hippe, L., Hennessy, V., Ramirez, N. F., & Zhao, T. C. (under review). Comparison of speech and music input in North American infants’ home environment over the first two years of life. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7m48z. (PDF)

Hennessy, V., & Zhao, T. C. (under review). Building the bond: The social-emotional role of infant-directed speech & song. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/sm4ux. (PDF)

Beguš, G., Zhou, A. & Zhao, T.C. (2023). Encoding of speech in convolutional layers and the brain stem based on language experience. Sci Rep 13, 6480. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33384-9. (PDF) 

2022

Corrigan, N. M., Yarnykh, V. L., Huber, E., Zhao, T. C. & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Brain Myelination at 7 Months of Age Predicts Later Language Development. NeuroImage, 263: 119641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119641. (PDF)

Zhao, T. C., Corrigan, N. M., Yarnykh, V. L. & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Development of executive function-related skill is related to both neural structure and function in infants. Developmental Science, 00, e13323. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13323. (PDF)

Zhao, T. C., Llanos, F., Chandrasekaran, B., & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Language experience during the period narrows infants’ sensory encoding of lexical tones—Music intervention reverses it. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.941853. (PDF)

Llanos, F., Zhao, T. C., Kuhl, P. K., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2022). The emergence of idiosyncratic patterns in the frequency-following response during the first year of life. JASA Express Letters 2(5): 054401. https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/10.0010493. (PDF)

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Development of speech processing and its relation to later language development: an MEG study. Neuroimage 256, 119242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119242. (PDF)

Zhao, T. C. (2022). Neural-behavioral relation in phonetic discrimination modulated by language background. Brain Sciences 12(4): 461. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040461. (PDF)

2021

Polka, L., Molnar, M., Zhao, T. C., & Masapollo, M. (2021). Neurophysiological Correlates of Asymmetries in Vowel Perception: An English-French Cross-Linguistic Event-Related Potential Study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 15 (274). http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.607148. (PDF)

Zhao, T. C., Boorom, O., Kuhl, P. K., & Gordon, R. (2021). Infants’ neural speech discrimination predicts individual differences in grammar ability at 6 years of age and their risk of developing speech-language disorders. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100949. (PDF)

Corrigan, N., Yarnykh, V., Hippe, D., Owens, J., Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2021). Gray matter myelination as a significant component of brain maturation during adolescence. NeuroImage, 227:117678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117678. (PDF)

2020

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2020). Neural and physiological relations observed in musical beat and meter processing. Brain and Behavior, 10(11), e01836. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1836. (PDF)

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2020). How early music training changes the brain. Acoustics Today,16(3), 61-69. https://doi.org/10.1121/AT.2020.16.3.61. (PDF)

2019

Zhao, T. C., Masapollo, M., Polka, L., Ménard, L., & Kuhl, P. K. (2019). Effects of formant proximity and stimulus prototypicality on the neural discrimination of vowels: Evidence from the auditory frequency-following response. Brain and Language,194, 77-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2019.05.002. (PDF)

Masapollo, M., Zhao, T. C., Franklin, L., & Morgan, J. L. (2019). Asymmetric discrimination of non-speech tonal analogues of vowels. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(2), 285-300. http://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000603. (PDF)

Khalil, A., Minces, V. H., Iversen, J., Musacchia, G., Zhao, T. C., & Chiba, A. A. (2019). Music, cognition and education. In P. K. Kuhl, S.-S. Lim, S. Guerriero, & D. Van Damme (Eds.), Developing minds in the digital age: Towards a science of learning for 21st century education(pp. 167–175). OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/562a8659-en. (PDF)

2018 and earlier

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2018). Linguistic effect on speech perception observed at the brainstem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (35), 8716-8721. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800186115. (PDF)

Zhao, T. C., Lam, H. T. G., Sohi, H., & Kuhl, P. K. (2017). Neural processing of musical meter in musicians and non-musicians. Neuropsychologia, 106 (Supplement C), 289-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. Neuropsychologia.2017.10.007. (PDF)

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2017). Effects of enriched auditory experience on infants’ speech perception during the first year of life. Prospects, 1-13. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-017-9397-6 (PDF)

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2016). Musical intervention enhances infants’ neural processing of temporal structure in music and speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(19), 5212-5217. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1603984113. (PDF)

Zhao, T. C., & Kuhl, P. K. (2015). Higher-level linguistic categories dominate over lower-level acoustics in lexical tone processing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(2), EL133-EL137. http://doi.org/10.1121/1.4927632. (PDF)

Zhao, T. , & Kuhl, P. K. (2015). Effect of musical experience on learning lexical tone categories. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(3), 1452-1463. http://doi.org/10.1121/1.4913457. (PDF)

Zhao, T., Moon, C., Lagercrantz, H., & Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Prenatal motherese? Newborn speech perception may be enhanced by having a young sibling. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 16 (2), 90-94. (PDF)