Neuroscience and Music Perception

The paper examines the relationship between working memory abilities and brain activity during long-term recognition of auditory sequences, finding positive correlations in specific brain regions.

This study investigates cortical envelope tracking during speech processing using auditory chimeras, finding that acoustic processing dominates but speech-specific processing also contributes.

The paper investigates how anxiety and depression affect sub- and supra-second interval timing by examining their impact on frontal-midline theta and occipital alpha oscillations.

This study investigates how temporal coherence and temporal predictability in precursor sounds influence auditory grouping and masking by testing their effects on tone detection.

This study measures sound localization acuity in common marmosets using operant conditioning, finding minimum audible angles of 13-22 degrees for horizontal and vertical sound locations.

This study investigates how cortical tracking of voice pitch changes when multiple speakers are present, finding that selective attention modulates pitch tracking in the presence of competing speech streams.

This study shows that neural synchronization to music is strongest for spectral flux, not amplitude envelope, and is influenced by tempo, familiarity, and beat salience.

The paper investigates how harmonicity affects brain responses to sound sequences, finding larger MMN and P3a amplitudes and earlier latencies for harmonic sounds compared to inharmonic ones.

The paper introduces a new experimental paradigm called DEA to study central auditory processing by mathematically separating overlapping neural responses to closely timed auditory stimuli.

This paper conducts a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies to identify neuroanatomical and functional differences between musicians and non-musicians.

This study examines how an eight-week music-based intervention affects brain network connectivity in older adults, showing increased functional connectivity between auditory regions and medial prefrontal cortex.

The paper examines how prediction error and adaptation differ across auditory cortical regions during deviance processing using fMRI and an auditory oddball paradigm.

The paper demonstrates that spectral content influences statistical learning of musical scale structure through two experiments with different timbre conditions.

This study shows that successful learning of nonspeech sound categories involves both short-term neural efficiency gains and preexisting structural differences in auditory cortex.

The paper investigates how individual differences in spontaneous production rate and social context affect musical synchronization, finding that nonlinear models better capture synchronization adjustments.

The paper uses hierarchical RNNs to analyze auditory cortex responses in anaesthetized mice, identifying distinct 'danger' and 'safety' neural units during sound stimulation.

This study shows how auditory cortical neurons adapt to sound reverberation by adjusting their filtering properties to dereverberate sounds.

This study identifies two stages of envelope tracking in human auditory cortex, with high-γ power reflecting fast processing and θ phase correlating with speech intelligibility.

This study decodes mnemonic and predictive representations in the auditory cortex of anesthetized rats using ECoG during stimulus sequences with noise bursts or omissions, showing they arise from overlapping but independent neural populations.

The paper shows that attention to memory enhances recall precision by improving neural fidelity in specific brain regions, particularly the left superior temporal sulcus.

This study finds that higher spontaneous eye blink rates, a proxy for striatal dopamine, correlate with poorer temporal precision in interval timing.

This study investigates how auditory cortex feedback influences predictive coding in the inferior colliculus through optogenetic inactivation in awake mice.

This study uses fNIRS and EEG to examine cortical responses to voice pitch changes, finding right-hemispheric activity and sustained fNIRS signals for variable prosody.

The paper investigates how mouse auditory cortex neurons respond to periodic and random sound sequences, finding distinct functional subnetworks that prefer regularity or irregularity in sound structures.

This study examines the relationship between musical sophistication and auditory working memory, finding that musical sophistication explains 21% of the variance in frequency working memory precision.

The paper evaluates behavioral and EEG-based measures as individualized assays for temporal fine structure (TFS) coding in the auditory system and finds that adjusted binaural measures show robust correlations with TFS processing.

The paper investigates hierarchical predictive auditory processing in marmoset brains using fMRI and ECoG, showing a gradient from local to global processing across brain regions.

This study shows that inhibitory neurons in the auditory cortex are crucial for detecting sounds in noisy environments.

This study examines how humans synchronize and reproduce rhythms, finding that memory-paced tapping is less flexible than real-time synchronization, especially for speech rhythms.

This study shows that harmonic frequency relations improve hearing in noise for both musicians and non-musicians, aiding detection and discrimination of sounds.