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Physiological Markers of Auditory Situational Awareness in Complex Spatialised Scenes

This study investigates how spatial changes in auditory scenes affect physiological responses like pupil dilation and microsaccades, revealing location-invariant early orienting and location-sensitive arousal responses.

Characterizing the effect of aging on resting and event-evoked ocular response dynamics

This study examines how aging affects resting and event-evoked ocular responses, finding that pupil dynamics change significantly while microsaccade dynamics remain stable.

Auditory regularity detection in the ferret

This study shows ferrets can detect transitions to regular auditory patterns, suggesting this ability is not unique to humans.

Adaptive Gain model for predicting auditory brain activity in mice outperforms standard methods for predicting cortical speech tracking in human EEG

The paper introduces an Adaptive Gain model that improves prediction of human cortical EEG responses to continuous speech by normalizing sound level based on recent context, outperforming standard envelope-based methods.

Brain bases for navigating acoustic features

The paper investigates the neural basis of navigating an auditory dimension in humans, finding overlapping brain systems with physical navigation.

Spatial auditory change detection in listeners with hearing loss

This study investigates how sensorineural hearing loss affects spatial auditory change detection, finding that hearing loss, age, and spatial location influence detection accuracy and speed.

Reduced Pupil-Linked Arousal Marks Implicit Memory for Complex Auditory Sequences

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.

Neural Signatures of Automatic Auditory Regularity Detection Reflect Individual Differences in Explicit Short-Term Memory

The paper links neural signatures of auditory regularity detection to individual differences in explicit short-term memory performance using EEG and behavioral tasks.

The Interplay of Bottom-Up Arousal and Attentional Capture during Auditory Scene Analysis: Evidence from Ocular Dynamics

This study examines how arousal and attention interact during auditory scene analysis by measuring pupil dilation and microsaccades in response to scene changes in predictable versus unpredictable sound environments.

Neural correlates of implicit memory for reoccurring sound patterns

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

Dissociable Pupil and Oculomotor Markers of Attention Allocation and Distractor Suppression during listening

The paper examines how pupil dilation, blinks, and microsaccades differ during attention and distractor suppression in an auditory task, revealing distinct cognitive mechanisms.

Discovery, Interruption, and Updating of Auditory Regularities in Memory: Evidence from Low-Frequency Brain Dynamics in Human MEG

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.

The Effect of Previously Encountered Sensory Information on Neural Representations of Predictability: Evidence from Human EEG

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.

Pupil-linked arousal does not differ between white, pink and brown noises

This study finds no difference in pupil-linked arousal across white, pink, and brown noises.

Loudness and sound category: Their distinct roles in shaping perceptual and physiological responses to soundscapes

This study investigates how loudness and sound category influence perceptual and physiological responses to soundscapes, finding that both factors affect pleasantness and eventfulness, with SCR dynamics linked to these judgments.

Probing sensitivity to statistical structure in rapid sound sequences using deviant detection tasks

The paper investigates how statistical structures in rapid sound sequences affect deviant detection, finding structured sequences enhance detection compared to random ones.

Assessing Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Change Detection in Spatialized Acoustic Scenes

This study examines how spatialization and sound source characteristics affect auditory change detection behavior and neural responses.

Brain responses to predictable structure in auditory sequences: From complex regular patterns to tone repetition

This study examines how human brain responses to auditory sequences change with varying levels of predictability and repetition, revealing distinct patterns of repetition suppression and enhancement.

Eye movements track prioritized auditory features in selective attention to natural speech

The paper shows that eye movements track acoustic features of attended speech, differentiating targets from distractors and relating to speech intelligibility.

Concurrent encoding of sequence predictability and event-evoked prediction error in unfolding auditory patterns

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

Cross-modal interactions between auditory attention and oculomotor control

This study investigates how auditory attention influences microsaccade inhibition (MSI) and finds that later stages of MSI are modulated by auditory attention while early stages remain reflexive.

Sustained EEG responses to rapidly unfolding stochastic sounds reflect precision tracking

The paper shows that sustained EEG responses to stochastic sounds reflect the brain's tracking of statistical precision during sensory processing.

Neural Dynamics Underlying Successful Auditory Short-Term Memory Performance

The paper investigates neural dynamics during auditory short-term memory tasks using MEG, finding distinct patterns in sensory and higher-order brain regions associated with successful performance.

Pupil dilation and microsaccades provide complementary insights into the dynamics of arousal and instantaneous attention during effortful listening

This study shows that pupil dilation and microsaccade rate provide distinct measures of arousal and auditory attention during effortful listening, with microsaccades reflecting temporal dynamics of attention.

Implicit auditory memory in older listeners: from encoding to 6-month retention

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.

Sustained pupil responses are modulated by predictability of auditory sequences

This study investigates how auditory sequence predictability affects pupil responses, finding that predictable sequences elicit smaller sustained pupil diameters, suggesting reduced processing demands.

Reward enhances online participants' engagement with a demanding auditory task

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

An online headphone screening test based on dichotic pitch

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 effect of healthy aging on change detection and sensitivity to predictable sturcture in crowded acoustic scenes

This study examines how healthy aging affects change detection in acoustic scenes, finding that older adults show preserved sensitivity to regular temporal structures but reduced sensitivity to random changes.

Long-term implicit memory for sequential auditory patterns in humans

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.