Neuroscience and Music Perception

This study demonstrates that binaural integration improves vertical sound source localization by leveraging sound type-specific prior information.

The paper investigates how arousal affects neural coding of natural sounds in auditory cortex by analyzing changes in response magnitude and noise correlations.

This study examines how voice characteristics affect neural tracking of fundamental frequency in speech using EEG, finding that lower and steadier f0 produces stronger responses.

This study investigates whether musical rhythm shares acoustic statistical properties with child-directed speech by analyzing amplitude modulation (AM) timescales across Western genres.

This study investigates automatic processing of emotional and neutral sounds in congenital amusia using EEG, finding preserved MMN for emotional deviants but reduced P3a for salient deviants and early deficits in processing subtle acoustic changes.

The paper investigates how autistic and typically developing individuals process familiar music using fMRI, finding differences in brain network activity during familiar music listening.

The paper shows that musicianship can be predicted from brain structure MRI data using machine learning, achieving significant classification accuracy.

The paper investigates brain dynamics during musical pattern recognition using MEG, finding increased activity and connectivity in a widespread network over time.

The paper identifies target-specific and masker-specific neurons in the auditory system that operate under noise conditions, showing a distributed network for auditory perception.

This study investigates whether spatial and temporal dimensions are processed independently using EEG, finding that they are neurally separable but hierarchically organized within the CNV signal.

This study shows that mismatch negativity (MMN) predicts pattern separation in memory, linking perceptual discrimination to mnemonic encoding.

The paper investigates how negative emotional faces affect time perception and decision-making by analyzing EEG data during a temporal bisection task with emotional stimuli.

The paper shows that the human striate cortex represents sound envelopes, demonstrating that V1 is a genuine locus for this representation.

The paper identifies a duration-selective cortico-cerebellar network and its topographic connectivity structure, showing the cerebellum as a hub and the medial premotor cortex as the final stage of duration recognition.

This study investigates how dopamine modulates prediction error signaling in the rat nonlemniscal inferior colliculus, showing it reduces responsiveness to unexpected auditory input.

This study investigates the role of insular and supra-temporal auditory areas in humans using intracranial recordings and stimulation, finding that while insula has similar auditory responses, it does not directly contribute to auditory perception.

The paper shows motor-evoked responses in auditory cortex during self-generated sounds correlate with improved sound detection.

The paper investigates how selective attention affects neural encoding and choice-related activity in auditory cortex during a feature-based attention task in rhesus macaques.

The paper identifies syllable-selective neuronal ensembles in marmoset primary auditory cortex that respond to specific vocalizations, showing sensitivity to global sound properties and sequence structure.

This study investigates how spatial cues affect selective and distributed attention to speech in multi-speaker environments, finding that spatial cues improve performance but are insufficient for focused attention.

The paper reconstructs trial-by-trial subjective time estimates from visual cortex BOLD activity during naturalistic video viewing, showing it reflects subjective experience rather than clock time.

This study investigates how populations of neurons in the primary auditory cortex encode vocalization identity, intensity, and signal-to-noise ratio under different noise conditions.

The paper investigates MMN in macaques to determine if it arises from adaptation or deviance detection, finding both mechanisms contribute with distinct functional profiles.

This study improves source modeling of auditory steady-state responses by extending minimum-norm imaging, showing better source detection and subcortical activity reconstruction compared to group-ICA.

This study shows that rhesus monkeys can categorize new sounds based on their similarity to learned sounds, indicating their ability to perceive auditory invariance.

This study investigates whether beat perception in rhythm is a form of chunking by comparing brain activation patterns during encoding and discrimination of rhythmic and verbal sequences.

The paper investigates how learning complex auditory patterns changes brain connectivity in auditory cortex using fMRI and dynamic causal modelling.

This study investigates the role of auditory cortex in degraded speech sound discrimination in noise using inactivation and electrophysiology in ferrets, showing cortical contributions and adaptation mechanisms.

The paper shows that task-dependent modulation of the left primary auditory thalamus increases with sensory uncertainty during speech recognition in noise.

This study compares pitch discrimination thresholds between musicians and non-musicians using diotic and dichotic stimuli, finding that musicians have lower thresholds and that self-evaluated competence correlates with performance.