Neuroscience and Music Perception

Temporal Structure of Music Improves the Cortical Encoding of Speech

This study shows that musical rhythm structures influence cortical speech tracking by guiding brain oscillations to align with speech envelopes.

Reduced neural sensitivity to musical tempo despite enhanced neural tracking of musical features in older adults

The paper examines how aging affects neural tracking of musical features and tempo sensitivity, finding enhanced feature tracking but reduced tempo sensitivity in older adults.

Hitting the right pitch: Cortical tracking of speech fundamental frequency in auditory and somatomotor regions

This study investigates how brain rhythms track speech fundamental frequency (F0) across different speech rates using magnetoencephalography, finding coupling in auditory and somatomotor regions.

Hierarchical Deviant Processing in Auditory Cortex of Awake Mice

This study investigates hierarchical prediction error signaling in the auditory cortex of awake mice by comparing responses to simple and complex sound pattern violations.

Human insula neurons respond to simple sounds during passive listening

The paper reports single neuron responses in the human insula to simple sounds during passive listening, showing frequency tuning and shorter response durations compared to auditory cortex.

Motor preparation tracks decision boundary crossing in temporal decision-making

The paper investigates the dynamics of motor preparation during temporal decision-making and finds that different decisions develop sequentially with distinct neural activity patterns.

Chirp Sensitivity and Vowel Coding in the Inferior Colliculus

The paper investigates how inferior colliculus neurons encode vowels by analyzing their sensitivity to chirp direction and velocity, finding that response timing and chirp sensitivity correlate with vowel identification accuracy.

Bayesian Prior Uncertainty and Surprisal Elicit Distinct Neural Patterns During Sound Localization in Dynamic Environments

This study uses EEG and computational modeling to show that prior uncertainty and surprisal elicit distinct neural patterns during dynamic auditory localization, predicting localization error and response uncertainty.

Hemodynamic traveling waves transport musical codes faster than language codes via shared bilateral streams

The paper compares the speed of information transfer between music and language using fMRI, finding musical codes travel faster than language codes through shared bilateral brain streams.

Rapid and Stimulus-Specific Deviance Detection in the Human Inferior Colliculus

This study uses auditory brainstem responses to show rapid, stimulus-specific deviance detection in the human inferior colliculus, aligning with animal findings and bridging human and animal research gaps.

Ageing impacts basic auditory and timing processing

This study examines how aging affects auditory and timing processing by analyzing neural responses to isochronous tone sequences in older and younger adults.

Cortical substrates of perceptual confusion between pitch and timbre

The paper investigates neural substrates of perceptual confusion between pitch and timbre by analyzing fMRI responses to manipulated auditory stimuli.

Hierarchical emergence of opponent coding in auditory belt cortex

The paper shows that opponent coding in auditory belt cortex improves amplitude-modulated noise detection through specific pooling methods.

Hierarchical encoding of natural sound mixtures in ferret auditory cortex

The paper investigates background invariance in ferret auditory cortex, finding a hierarchical gradient similar to humans, explained by low-order acoustic features but suggesting higher-order mechanisms in humans.

Deep Sound Synthesis Reveals Novel Category-Defining Sound Features in the Human Auditory Cortex

The paper identifies novel sound features in the human auditory cortex using deep sound synthesis and neuroimaging, showing that unnatural sounds can elicit natural categorical responses.

Neurons in auditory cortex integrate information within constrained temporal windows that are invariant to the stimulus context and information rate

Temporal-Coherence Induces Binding in Responses to Sound Sequences in Ferret Auditory Cortex

The paper demonstrates that temporal-coherence in sound sequences enhances neural binding and segregation in ferret auditory cortex through attention and rapid plasticity.

Contextual Neural Dynamics During Time Perception in Primate Ventral Premotor Cortex

This study examines how primate ventral premotor cortex processes time during interval comparison and categorization tasks, revealing distinct neural dynamics for each task.

Electroencephalographic power spectrum and intersubject correlation on acoustic stimulation with modes of Indian music: a randomized controlled trial

This study investigates EEG power spectral changes and intersubject correlation during passive listening to three Indian musical modes compared to a control, finding mode-specific effects on brain activity.

Dynamics of pitch perception in the auditory cortex

This study investigates how pitch is neurally encoded and integrated in the auditory cortex using MEG, showing that pitch is represented across different cue types and that context modulates its temporal dynamics.

Salience-dependent disruption of sustained auditory attention can be inferred from evoked pupil responses and neural tracking of task-irrelevant sounds

The paper shows that pupil responses and neural tracking of task-irrelevant sounds can indicate distraction during sustained listening, with higher salience sounds causing greater distraction and poorer speech comprehension.

Lifetime changes in Body map based on music prediction

This study examines how bodily sensations and emotional responses to music change with age, finding that bodily responses decline while arousal increases, correlating with musical predictability.

Electromyographic Correlates of Effortful Listening in the Vestigial Auriculomotor System

The study investigates whether auricular muscle EMG activity reflects effortful listening by varying listening effort and stimulus direction in a competing speaker paradigm.

Predicting the Beat Bin - Beta Oscillations Predict the Envelope Sharpness in a Rhythmic Sequence

The paper shows that pre-target beta-band neural activity predicts the sharpness of amplitude envelopes in rhythmic sequences, influencing temporal perception of sounds.

The interplay of uncertainty, relevance and learning influences auditory categorization

The paper investigates how uncertainty, relevance, and learning interact in auditory categorization by modeling human behavior with a Bayesian framework.

A Shared Neural Network for Highly Liked and Disliked Music

This study uses fMRI to show that highly liked and disliked music activate a shared neural network related to emotional processing, with individual differences in responsiveness influencing engagement.

The neural activity of auditory conscious perception

The paper investigates neural activity during auditory conscious perception and finds similar cortical and subcortical network patterns to those observed in visual perception.

Attentional inhibition ability predicts neural representation during challenging auditory streaming

This study shows that attentional inhibition ability explains part of the variability in neural decoding accuracy during complex auditory streaming tasks.

Dual temporal codes for voice identity in the primate auditory cortex

The paper investigates vocal identity encoding in primate auditory cortex by recording single-neuron activity in rhesus macaques and identifies two distinct temporal coding strategies for voice recognition.

Beyond Auditory Relay: Dissecting the Inferior Colliculus's Role in Sensory Prediction, Reward Prediction and Cognitive Decision-Making

This study reveals the Inferior Colliculus's role in sensory prediction, reward prediction, and decision-making through neural activity analysis in monkeys.