Preface -- The Frequency-Following Response: A Window into Human Communication -- Infant and Childhood Development: Intersections Between Development and Language Experience -- Shaping Brainstem Representation of Pitch — Relevant Information by Language Experience -- Short-Term Learning and Memory: Training and Perceptual Learning -- The Role of the Auditory Brainstem in Regularity Encoding and Deviance Detection Carles Escera -- The Janus Face of Auditory Learning: How Life Experience Shapes Everyday Communication -- Individual Differences in Temporal Perception and Their Implications for Everyday Listening -- Communicating in Challenging Environments: Noise and Reverberation -- Understanding Auditory Processing Disorder Through the FFR -- Neurobiology of Literacy and Reading Disorders -- Clinical Translation: Aging, Hearing Loss, and Amplification.