Neuroscience and Music Perception

The paper investigates how internal reference frames are constructed in temporal perception by analyzing serial dependence in duration estimation tasks and proposes a Bayesian model to explain the findings.

This study investigates cortical sources of frequency following responses (FFRs) to speech across species, finding robust FFRs in auditory cortex and their contribution to scalp-recorded signals.

This paper introduces a machine-learning pipeline for analysing MEG data to detect beat-related oscillatory power modulation, showing clearer patterns than traditional methods.

This study shows that musical experience improves temporal speech processing in older adults with mild cognitive impairment, suggesting potential cognitive protection.

The paper identifies stronger recurrent connections in the right auditory cortex of mice, leading to longer temporal integration windows, supporting lateralized speech processing theories.

The paper shows that call feature selectivity emerges in superficial layers of primary auditory cortex through changes in neural representation.

The paper investigates how the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism influences auditory prediction plasticity in musicians versus non-musicians using MEG.

The paper investigates how musical pleasure is shared between individuals during a live concert, finding that physical proximity and synchronized emotional reports correlate with increased cerebral coherence and skin conductance coupling.

This study investigates corticothalamic feedback in awake marmosets, showing frequency-specific effects on MGB neurons and changes in tuning bandwidth.

The paper investigates how neural synchronization and predictive processing contribute to sensorimotor synchronization with different beat subdivisions, finding a binary grouping advantage and musical training effects.

This study examines how cerebellar lesions affect auditory encoding and processing of sound sequences with regular or irregular timing, finding delayed ERP responses and variable temporal processing in patients.

The paper investigates how auditory attention modulates neural phase-locking to sound streams and finds that attention enhances sinusoidal modulations aligned with sound rhythm.

The paper investigates neural responses to musical temporal fine structure and finds no attentional modulation in competing instruments.

This study shows that macaque supplementary motor area (SMA) activity correlates with perceptual invariance of sounds, suggesting motor predictions, not just sensory representations, underlie invariant recognition.

The paper shows that left ventral MGB modulation increases during speech recognition in noisy conditions compared to clear speech or speaker identity tasks.

The paper investigates how timing skill training affects neural activity and performance in perceptual and motor timing tasks, finding heterogeneous responses and common neural changes in the timing network.

The paper investigates rapid brain mechanisms for encoding and predicting complex temporal sound sequences using MEG data from 68 participants.

This study uses computational modeling to show that single-trial neural dynamics, specifically smaller P2 amplitudes, predict successful auditory category learning in nonmusicians.

This study uses high-resolution fMRI to investigate the role of basal ganglia and cerebellum in vocal emotion processing, finding their involvement in activation and connectivity patterns for emotional voices.

The paper investigates mismatch responses in the rat medial prefrontal cortex and finds they are driven by unpredictability and prediction error signaling, distinct from auditory system responses.

The paper investigates how neural representations of music during imagery compare to perception and how rhythmic motion affects these representations.

This study investigates whether neural oscillations reflect rhythm perception or generation, finding that meter-related oscillations occur only when rhythms are actively generated.

The paper uses intracranial recordings to show a neural population in human auditory cortex selectively responsive to musical song.

The paper investigates neural and musical attributes of beauty during naturalistic music listening using behavioral, neuroimaging, and expert judgments.

The paper investigates how the brain translates structural rules into movement sequences during musical performance, identifying the prefrontal cortex as a hub linking abstract rules to concrete actions.

This study investigates brain network dynamics during pitch change detection, showing slow oscillations and phase-amplitude coupling in auditory and motor regions, with differences in amusia.

The paper develops a method to estimate neural integration periods in human auditory cortex and shows integration periods increase with cortical hierarchy, correlating with selectivity for acoustic features and sound categories.

The paper tests neural mechanisms for sound localization in reverberant environments and finds that common brain circuits can reproduce localization preferences without specialized mechanisms.

This study examines the effect of COMT Val158Met polymorphism on neural responses to deviant auditory stimuli using MEG in healthy participants.

The paper investigates how attention affects neural processing of rhythm, finding that overall neural response decreases with attention but selective contrast at meter periodicities remains unchanged.