Neuroscience and Music Perception

This study investigates how transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) at different frequencies affects the perception of spoken words, finding a significant effect when words are presented in sentences but not in isolation.

The paper shows that subsecond time perception can be represented in a way that is invariant to interval and modality, through perceptual learning experiments with transfer across intervals and modalities.

This study presents a proof-of-concept protocol using EEG to measure non-personalized emotional responses to continuous musical stimuli, finding consistent hemispheric lateralization across participants and variable inter-subjective responses between studies.

The paper shows that prediction-errors bias time perception by altering perceived duration, with positive errors increasing and negative errors decreasing perceived time.

This study investigates temporal perceptual learning by comparing fixed and random interval training, finding task-specific improvements without generalization.

The paper identifies a high-frequency brain response in the posterior superior temporal gyrus and sulcus to unexpected sound omissions, suggesting a role in auditory prediction and salience detection.

The paper shows auditory contrast gain control occurs in subcortical and cortical auditory systems and predicts perceptual adaptation in humans.

The paper shows that neural synchronization to perceived musical meter persists longer when rhythms transition from regular to ambiguous, demonstrating hysteresis and context-dependent stability in perception.

The paper compares auditory response properties of neurons in the bat frontal auditory field and auditory cortex, finding sparser and less precise spiking in the frontal area.

This study shows that EEG activity during a temporal categorisation task encodes both temporal and decisional information, with decisional aspects better explaining activity typically linked to timing.

This study uses machine learning to classify frequency following responses (FFRs) from speech and music stimuli, showing high accuracy and similar patterns to human perception.

The paper compares whole-brain and regions-of-variance approaches to examine how personality traits relate to neural responses to emotional music.

The paper investigates music perception deficits in acquired prosopagnosia and identifies an anterior temporal syndrome involving face, voice, and music processing.

This study investigates the neural correlates of musical excitement during Drops, finding brain activity patterns linked to expectancy and contrastive valence.

The paper shows that mouse auditory cortex, particularly A2, can track fine frequency modulations through offset spiking, which becomes plastic with experience in distinguishing natural sound categories.

The paper identifies differences in origin and termination patterns between layer 5 and layer 6 corticocollicular neurons in the mouse auditory system.

The paper examines individual differences in prosody perception in children using brain and behavioral methods, finding links between neural encoding, behavioral measures, and musical rhythm perception.

This study shows that musical expertise leads to more subadditive neural responses to complex auditory stimuli, suggesting more integrative processing of acoustic features.

The paper investigates how perceptual learning of pure tones versus natural sounds affects neural plasticity in the auditory cortex, finding that natural sounds induce sparsening and decorrelation, improving discrimination of complex sounds.

This study investigates how aging affects neural processing of temporal regularity in sounds, finding increased cortical gain and reduced sustained activity in older adults.

The paper investigates how attentional modulation of neural phase is enhanced by short-term training and linked to musical experience in auditory attention tasks.

The paper shows that individual listening success in a dichotic task is best predicted by the combined effect of neural speech tracking and alpha power lateralization, not their individual contributions.

The paper shows that listeners detect changes in auditory scenes better when sources have regular patterns, even if they are unaware of the regularity.

The paper shows that low-level auditory processing in rats explains beat perception in music through increased firing rates on beats.

The paper identifies two distinct predictive mechanisms in human auditory cortex during speech perception and production, revealing their anatomical and functional roles in predicting 'when' and 'what' acoustic events occur.

The paper examines how music genres are represented in the human brain using fMRI and voxel-wise modeling, finding distinct cortical organizations in the STG explained by spectro-temporal modulation.

This study finds that absolute pitch musicians perform better in an interleaved melody recognition task, with their proficiency, visual disembedding ability, and musicality explaining 39.2% of the variance.

The paper investigates species-specific differences in pitch perception by comparing ferrets and humans, finding that cochlear filter bandwidths influence the salience of temporal envelope and harmonic cues.

The paper measures physiological responses to salient auditory stimuli in natural soundscapes using EEG and identifies salient portions of the scene through entrainment and oscillatory response reductions.

The paper investigates human sound localization and finds that decreasing sound intensity causes localization to collapse toward the midline, supporting a hemispheric-difference model over a labelled-line model.