Neuroscience and Music Perception

Hemispheric asymmetries in auditory cortex reflect discriminative responses to temporal details or summary statistics of stationary sounds.

This study uses MEG to show that auditory cortex hemispheres specialize in processing local sound features versus summary statistics, with right hemisphere involvement in both and left hemisphere engagement in summary statistics for long sounds.

Behavioral and neural sound classification: Insights from natural and synthetic sounds

The paper investigates how natural and synthetic sounds are classified behaviorally and neurally, identifying key acoustic features that support sound category recognition.

Spectral acoustic contributions to musical pleasure are dynamically shaped by autonomic neural inputs

The paper uses twRSA to show that autonomic responses during music listening are weakly mediated by physiological signals in shaping musical pleasure.

Selective attention network in naturalistic auditory scenes is object and scene specific

This study investigates how selective attention modulates neural representations in the auditory cortex during naturalistic sound scenes, showing context-dependent prioritization of object-specific or category-level features.

Time is Confidence: Monetary Incentives Metacognitive Profile on Duration Judgment

This study shows that monetary rewards lead to longer perceived durations and higher confidence, with high-confidence individuals overestimating time more than low-confidence ones.

Estimating the mean: behavioral and neural correlates of summary representations for time intervals

The paper investigates how humans estimate the mean of temporal distributions and shows that variability in distributions increases uncertainty in mean estimates, reflected in neural signals like CNV.

Audio-visual concert performances synchronize an audience's heart rates

The paper examines how audio-visual concert performances affect audience heart rate synchrony, finding that visual elements enhance engagement at structurally significant moments in music.

Hemispheric difference of adaptation lifetime in human auditory cortex measured with MEG

This study measures adaptation lifetime in human auditory cortex using MEG and finds longer adaptation lifetimes in the left hemisphere compared to the right.

Midbrain encodes sound detection behavior without auditory cortex

The paper shows that midbrain structures encode sound detection behavior without requiring auditory cortex input, indicating subcortical structures can process non-acoustic information.

Evidence for systematic - yet task- and motor-contingent - rhythmicity of auditory perceptual judgements

This study investigates rhythmicity in auditory perception through experiments with varying tasks and motor demands, finding paradigm- and ear-specific fluctuations in perceptual sensitivity and response bias.

Functional Brain Connectivity and Musical Training: Insights from EEG Phase Synchronization During Music Perception

This study examines functional brain connectivity differences between musicians and non-musicians during music perception tasks using EEG phase synchronization, finding enhanced connectivity in musicians across multiple frequency bands.

Neural tracking of the speech envelope predicts binaural unmasking

This study shows that binaural unmasking improves speech understanding and neural tracking of the speech envelope, as measured by EEG, in noisy environments.

Repetition of Rhythmic Patterns Fosters Neural Representation of Musical Meter

The paper investigates how repetition of rhythmic patterns enhances neural representation of musical meter through EEG and behavioral responses.

Decoding contextual influences on auditory perception from primary auditory cortex

The paper investigates how contextual influences on auditory perception are encoded in primary auditory cortex using tritone pairs and single-unit recordings in ferrets.

Association between recovering from tempo perturbations and reading measurements.

The paper shows that sensorimotor synchronization after tempo perturbations better predicts reading skills than before perturbations, highlighting nonlinear auditory processing.

The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception: A systematic review and meta-analysis on its behavioural, physiological, and clinical correlates

This paper reviews and meta-analyzes studies on the major-minor mode dichotomy in music, finding distinct neural and emotional responses and proposing a framework incorporating individual factors.

Parallel mechanisms signal a hierarchy of sequence structure violations in the auditory cortex

The paper shows that mice use distinct cellular mechanisms to predict different levels of regularity in sound sequences, with VIP neurons signaling global structure violations during wakefulness.

Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing

The paper shows that precise spike timing in auditory nerve models improves sound localization and speech perception, but the required precision varies with task demands.

A signal of temporal integration in the human auditory brain: psychological insights, EEG evidence, and clinical application

This study investigates temporal integration in the human auditory system using EEG and finds that regular transitional click trains elicit distinct neural responses compared to irregular ones, with clinical implications for coma diagnosis.

Hierarchical Encoding of Millisecond-Scale Temporal Configuration of Sound in the Mammalian Auditory Pathway

The paper identifies millisecond-scale temporal configuration of sound as a distinct auditory feature, showing hierarchical encoding across the mammalian auditory pathway.

Cortical tracking of speakers' spectral changes predicts selective listening

The paper shows that neural tracking of spectral changes in speech predicts success in selective listening tasks.

PolyRNN: A time-resolved model of polyphonic musical expectations aligned with human brain responses

The paper introduces PolyRNN, a model of musical expectations in polyphonic music, and shows it aligns with human brain responses recorded via MEG and intracranial EEG.

Decoding Musical Valence And Arousal: Exploring The Neural Correlates Of Music Evoked Emotions And The Role Of Expressivity Features

The paper uses fMRI to decode music-evoked valence and arousal by analyzing neural correlates and musical features, finding expressive features modulate reward and emotion networks.

Common neural mechanisms supporting time judgements in humans and monkeys

This study compares neural mechanisms for time perception in humans and monkeys, finding similar post-interval potentials and firing rate differences during time categorization tasks.

Noise schemas aid hearing in noise

The paper investigates how human hearing adapts to background noise, finding that internal models of noise structure, or 'noise schemas', improve the detection and localization of foreground sounds in noisy environments.

No Effect of Value on the Task Irrelevant Auditory Mismatch Negativity

The paper investigates whether learned value associations for auditory stimuli affect pre-attentive processing, finding no effect on MMN but an impact on P3a and task performance.

A systematic and meta-analytic review of non-verbal auditory memory in the brain

This paper reviews and meta-analyzes neuroimaging studies on non-verbal auditory memory, identifying a frontal brain hub and exploring individual differences in auditory memory processes.

The neural mechanisms of concept formation over time in music

This study investigates how the brain generalises abstract musical concepts over time using MEG, finding that neural responses to novel sequences differ significantly at faster paces.

Sufficiency of ITD for (biased) human auditory azimuthal perception

The paper investigates whether internalized spatial percepts from ITD cues can predict external sound localization, finding consistent azimuth estimates despite the perceptual mismatch.

Fundamental frequency predominantly drives talker differences in auditory brainstem responses to continuous speech

This study shows that fundamental frequency, not talker gender, drives differences in auditory brainstem responses to speech, with higher frequencies leading to smaller and later responses.