Neuroscience and Music Perception

Functional MRI reveals that subcortical auditory push-pull interactions rely on intercollicular integrity

This study uses fMRI and IC lesions in rats to show that subcortical auditory push-pull interactions depend on intercollicular integrity and occur primarily at the inferior colliculus level.

Spatiotemporal brain hierarchies of auditory memory recognition and predictive coding

This study uses MEG to investigate hierarchical brain mechanisms during auditory memory recognition and predictive coding, showing feedforward and backward connections and distinct power dynamics in different brain regions.

Hierarchical syntax models of music predict theta power during music listening

This study shows that hierarchical music syntax models predict theta power in brain regions associated with language and reward during music listening.

Bidirectional connectivity changes in the frontotemporal areas reflect figure-ground reversal in multivoiced music

The paper shows that frontotemporal connectivity changes during a figure-ground reversal in multivoiced music, indicating bidirectional neural processes.

Carrier-frequency specific omission-related neural activity in ordered sound sequences are independent of omissions-predictability

The paper investigates whether neural responses to omitted sounds in tone sequences depend on the predictability of omissions, finding that frequency-specific activity occurs independently of omission predictability.

Neonatal sensitivity to vocal emotions: A developmental change at 37 weeks of gestational age

This study identifies a developmental change in neonatal emotional perception at 37 weeks gestational age, showing heightened discrimination of emotional vocal prosody.

Dissecting Mismatch Negativity: Early and Late Subcomponents for Detecting Deviants in Local and Global Sequence Regularities

The paper investigates MMN subcomponents by analyzing EEG data from an auditory oddball paradigm, finding two distinct subcomponents linked to local and global sequence regularities.

Insights into dynamic sound localisation: A direction-dependent comparison between human listeners and a Bayesian model.

This study compares a Bayesian model's predictions of dynamic sound localisation with human performance, showing agreement and insights into how acoustic and sensorimotor information are integrated.

Role of the prefrontal cortex in musical and verbal short-term memory: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study

This study uses fNIRS to compare neural activity during musical and verbal short-term memory tasks, finding involvement of the dlPFC and IFG with load-dependent differences in activity patterns.

Inter-Subject EEG Correlation Reflects Time-Varying Engagement with Natural Music

This study examines time-varying neural engagement during music listening using EEG inter-subject correlations, finding significant correlations during musical tension but not at climactic peaks.

Gradient boosted decision trees reveal nuances of auditory discrimination behaviour

This paper uses gradient-boosted models to analyze ferret auditory discrimination behavior, revealing subtle effects of pitch shifts on performance and identifying predictors of false alarms.

Neural correlates of flexible sound perception in the auditory midbrain and thalamus

The paper investigates how auditory midbrain and thalamus neurons adapt to sound perception under different contexts and training, showing rapid and slow improvements in sensitivity.

Detection of threshold-level stimuli modulated by temporal predictions of the cerebellum

This study shows that cerebellar activity related to temporal expectations affects detection performance of at-threshold stimuli in a sequence-dependent manner.

Measuring the perception and metacognition of time

The paper introduces a new paradigm to measure perceived time and metacognitive judgments, and applies a model to analyze variability across different intervals and stimulus modalities.

Population coding of time-varying sounds in the non-lemniscal Inferior Colliculus

The paper investigates how neurons in the non-lemniscal shell region of the inferior colliculus encode amplitude modulation in mice, showing that population coding, not individual neuron selectivity, accurately represents sound cues for speech perception.

Algebraic structures emerge from the self-supervised learning of natural sounds.

This paper shows deep learning models can spontaneously detect algebraic structures in sounds through self-supervised learning, with performance depending on exposure to natural sounds and pretraining on music or environmental sounds.

Mobile version of the Battery for the Assessment of Auditory Sensorimotor and Timing Abilities (BAASTA): Implementation and adult norms

The paper introduces a mobile version of the BAASTA battery for assessing timing and rhythm abilities, providing adult norms and a new composite score with high test-retest reliability.

An Entrainment Oscillator Mechanism underlies Human Beat Matching Performance

This study shows that human beat matching involves an entrainment oscillator mechanism in the SMA, supported by EEG and tACS experiments.

Neural dynamics of predictive timing and motor engagement in music listening

The paper investigates how neural dynamics in the dorsal auditory pathway relate to the experience of groove during music listening and shows that motor engagement reflects predictive timing.

Long-horizon associative learning explains human sensitivity to statistical and network structures in auditory sequences

The paper investigates how humans process auditory sequences with network structures using MEG, finding rapid encoding of network structure and a long-horizon associative learning mechanism.

Increased reliance on temporal coding when target sound is softer than the background

The paper investigates how auditory cortex neurons decode target sounds in fluctuating noise, finding that temporal coding becomes more important at lower signal-to-noise ratios.

Cardio-audio synchronization elicits neural and cardiac surprise responses in human wakefulness and sleep

The paper investigates how the brain and heart respond to auditory and cardio-audio regularities during wakefulness and sleep, finding that unexpected sound omissions elicit cardiac and neural surprise responses.

Voice patches in the marmoset auditory cortex revealed by wide-field calcium imaging

The paper identifies two voice patches in the marmoset auditory cortex using wide-field calcium imaging that selectively respond to marmoset vocalizations.

Timbral effects on consonance illuminate psychoacoustics of music evolution

The paper shows that timbral manipulations can reshape harmonic consonance preferences and influence the evolution of musical scales through large-scale behavioral experiments and computational modeling.

Encoding of melody in the human auditory cortex

This study investigates how different dimensions of melody are encoded in the human auditory cortex, finding both music-specific and domain-general representations.

Concurrent encoding of sequence predictability and event-evoked prediction error in unfolding auditory patterns

This study uses MEG to show that the brain simultaneously tracks auditory pattern predictability through sustained responses and reduces phasic responses to predictable tones.

Interference of mid-level sound statistics underlie human speech recognition sensitivity in natural noise

The paper shows human speech recognition in natural noise relies on mid-level auditory statistics, with a model predicting perceptual variance better than cochlear models.

Learning within a sensory-motor circuit links action to expected outcome

The paper identifies a cortical locus for expectation and error signals in auditory cortex during motor-sensory learning and shows these signals can be induced experimentally.

Neurobiological slowdown in later life manifests in tempo of popular music

This study shows that musical tempo decreases with age in top artists, reflecting neurobiological slowdown in motor control.

Elevated Activity in Left Homologous Music Circuits is Maladaptive for Music Perception but Mediated by Decoupled Structure and Function

The paper investigates how structure-function coupling in brain regions relates to music perception, finding it more predictive than regional activity or connectivity.