Our hope and aim with our recent article in TiCS [1] was to provoke debate and research on the hypothesis that conscious experiences form quality spaces; thus, we were very pleased to receive letters from Dołęga, et al. [2] and Song [3] making constructive suggestions for taking this enquiry in new directions. Our focus was […]

Environments are dynamic and complex. Some children experience more predictable early life environments than others. Here, we consider how moment-by-moment complexity and predictability in our early environments influence development. New studies using wearable sensors are quantifying this environmental variability at a fine temporal resolution across hierarchically structured physical and social features. We identify three types […]

Abstract In this paper, we explore the effect of musical expertise on whistled word perception by naive listeners. In whistled words of nontonal languages, vowels are transposed to relatively stable pitches, while consonants are translated into pitch movements or interruptions. Previous behavioral studies have demonstrated that naive listeners can categorize isolated consonants, vowels, and words […]