| tES | transcranial electrical stimulation |
| tDCS | transcranial direct current stimulation |
| tACS | transcranial alternating current stimulation |
| tRNS | transcranial random noise stimulation |
| HD-tACS | high definition transcranial alternating current stimulation |
| HF-tRNS | high-frequency transcranial random noise stimulation |
| DC | direct current |
| SR | Stochastic resonance |
| ERPs | event-related potentials |
| EEG | electroencephalography |
| AEP | auditory evoked potential |
| SG | sensory gating |
| DLPFC | dorsolateral prefrontal cortex |
| ST | sensory tetanus |
| MMN | mismatch negativity |
| IFG | inferior frontal gyrus |
| AC | auditory cortex |
| ASSR | auditory steady state response |
| MEG | magnetoencephalography |
| ERSP | event-related spectral perturbation |
| ITPC | inter-trial phase coherence |
| LAC | left auditory cortex |
| RAC | right auditory cortex |
| BAC | bilateral auditory cortex |
| RGDT | random gap detection test |
| GDT | gap detection task |
| IGF | individual gamma frequency |
| FEM | finite element model |
| FFT | fast Fourier transform |
| PDT | pitch discrimination task |
| SNR | signal-to-noise ratio |
| STG | superior temporal gyrus |
| pSTG | posterior superior temporal gyrus |
| IPL | inferior parietal lobule |
| SMC | somatosensory-motor cortex |
| PPC | posterior parietal cortex |
| DL | dichotic listening |
| RIPS | right intraparietal sulcus |
| LC-NE | locus coeruleus–norepinephrine |
| VOT | voice onset time |
| CV | consonant-vowels |
| OLSa | Oldenburger sentence test |
| SCT | speech comprehension threshold |
| SRT | sentence reception threshold |