Neuroscience and Music Perception

The paper shows that pupillary dynamics reflect internal temporal expectations and behavioral adaptation to task structure in an auditory change detection task.

This study examines how selective auditory attention affects cortical responses to changes in speech location in quiet and in babble, showing differences in response magnitude and direction based on background noise.

This paper demonstrates how data quantity affects TRF analysis performance in speech processing, showing that more data improves model accuracy but the required amount varies based on feature density and analysis goals.

The paper presents a model of auditory frequency change perception, showing that listeners combine spectral fine structure and envelope cues adaptively based on sound type and individual differences.

This study inactivates ferret auditory cortex using cooling or optogenetics to assess its role in spatial and non-spatial hearing, finding impairments in vowel discrimination in noise but not in clean or spatially separated conditions.

This study examines how parietal cortex neurons transform acoustic information into decision variables during auditory tasks, showing task-dependent changes in neural decoding and clustering.

The paper investigates how the human brain processes primate vocalizations, finding distinct frontal brain activity patterns for different species.

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 examines brain network dynamics during music listening in younger and older adults, finding age-related differences in network engagement and correlation between liking and familiarity ratings.

The paper shows that the auditory midbrain codes for unsupervised predictable sound-context associations through plasticity, revealing subcortical engagement in contextual sound detection.

The paper investigates how beat-based and pattern-based temporal expectations influence neural oscillations and behavior, finding distinct neural responses for each type of expectation.

This paper introduces a Bayesian model for directional sound localization that outperforms existing models using spectral gradient profiles.

This study investigates how congenital amusia affects perception of consonance through behavioral thresholds and brain responses to harmonicity and beating cues.

The paper decodes subjects' own names in the primary auditory cortex using multivariate pattern analysis and dynamic causal modelling, showing it can distinguish SON from other names and highlighting insula influence.

This study investigates how neural activity during naturalistic music listening reflects melodic expectations based on short-range musical contexts and long-term statistical learning.

This study examines age-related differences in neural responses to amplitude and frequency modulations in sound, finding greater synchronization but reduced sustained activity in older adults.

This study finds that neural entrainment to musical pulse is preserved in older adults, suggesting potential for music-based interventions in healthy aging.

This study investigates how the complexity of auditory sequences affects neural activity during recognition memory, finding distinct brain network engagement for simple and complex stimuli.

This study identifies how ordinal position information of auditory sequences is stored and reactivated in human working memory using EEG, revealing its temporal dynamics and behavioral relevance.

The study investigates whether background speech is segregated into separate streams in the cocktail party scenario by comparing target detection and ERP responses with different numbers of distractors.

The paper investigates how neurons in the rabbit inferior colliculus respond to chirp velocity and periodicity, finding that periodicity has a stronger influence on responses than velocity.

This study compares P3b neural responses during word discrimination and speech-token/tonal oddball tasks, finding differences in latency and amplitude related to task complexity and reaction time variability.

The paper uses a hierarchical RNN to model ERP responses to intensity oddball stimuli, revealing differences in hidden unit amplitudes across latency ranges and MMN polarity changes with stimulus intensity.

This study shows that selective attention reduces auditory cortex responses to attended frequencies in humans using high-resolution fMRI, contrasting with previous findings.

The paper compares how rule-based and stimulus-based cues influence auditory decisions, finding distinct computational and physiological mechanisms for each.

This study examines how familiar background music affects neural tracking of speech in noisy environments, finding that familiar music reduces speech comprehension challenges.

This study examines how 7-8-year-old children and adults process task-irrelevant sounds during everyday activities, finding immature neuronal mechanisms in children.

The paper investigates how cortical α states dynamically influence brainstem speech coding during speech perception in noise.

This paper reviews neural tracking as a framework to assess auditory and linguistic processing during speech perception, highlighting three analyses: f0-tracking, envelope tracking, and linguistic feature tracking.

This study uses fMRI to analyze functional brain dynamics during music listening in adolescents, finding increased engagement of the orbitofrontal cortex reward system.