Roberta Bianco

This study shows newborns can track rhythmic statistical regularities in music but not melodic information, suggesting rhythm develops earlier than melody.

The paper shows that implicit memory for auditory sequences reduces pupil-linked arousal, even when participants are unaware of the familiarity, supporting predictive processing theories.

This study investigates implicit memory for reoccurring sound patterns using UHF fMRI, finding that reoccurrence enhances perceptual precision and engages specific brain regions.

This study investigates how the brain establishes and updates predictive models of auditory patterns using MEG, finding that model reactivation is faster for familiar patterns and involves auditory, hippocampal, and frontal areas.

This study investigates how auditory contextual memory affects neural representations of predictability in human EEG, showing that predictability is influenced by preceding random tones even after they end.

This study shows that both humans and budgerigars prefer pitch sequences with intermediate complexity, suggesting a shared cognitive preference that may relate to learning.

This study examines how infants' neural responses and movements to music develop between 3, 6, and 12 months, finding early auditory processing and delayed structured movement responses.

This paper uses multivariate modeling of EEG data from dyadic dance to decode neural processes related to music, movement, and social coordination, identifying a new neural marker for social alignment.

This study uses MEG to show that the brain simultaneously tracks auditory pattern predictability through sustained responses and reduces phasic responses to predictable tones.

This study examines age-related changes in implicit auditory memory by testing response times to novel and repeated tone patterns over 6 months, finding reduced short-term and long-term memory in older adults.

This study shows that offering a monetary reward improves speech reception performance in online participants compared to no reward.

The paper introduces a rapid headphone screening test based on Huggins Pitch to identify headphone users in online auditory experiments, showing higher selectivity than existing methods.

The paper investigates how the brain translates structural rules into movement sequences during musical performance, identifying the prefrontal cortex as a hub linking abstract rules to concrete actions.

The paper investigates how humans encode and retain sequence statistics in long-term memory through behavioral experiments and a probabilistic model, showing implicit memory for auditory patterns over weeks.

This study shows that cortical responses to music encode melodic expectations, with neural signals better predicted by combining acoustic and melodic features than either alone.

This study shows that pupil dilation responses to pitch deviants in music depend on contextual uncertainty and unexpectedness, with no effect of music expertise.

This study shows that music predictability and liking increase pupil dilation and improve motor learning in non-musicians, with liking having a stronger effect on learning than predictability.

This study uses fMRI to investigate brain activity during the generation of new hierarchical levels in motor sequences, finding that it activates a motor planning network without involving lateral prefrontal cortex.