Neuroscience and Music Perception

Auditory neural tracking reflects target enhancement but not distractor suppression in a psychophysically augmented continuous-speech paradigm

The paper investigates whether selective attention enhances target speech tracking or suppresses distractor speech, finding that target speech is enhanced but distractors are not suppressed below neutral baseline.

A Unitary Mechanism Underlies Adaptation to Both Local and Global Environmental Statistics in Time Perception

The paper shows that time perception in humans is governed by a single mechanism that adapts to both local and global environmental statistics.

Time as a supervisor: temporal regularity and auditory object learning

The paper shows that learning temporally regular features improves auditory object discrimination compared to conventional methods.

Evoked Responses to Localized Sounds Suggest Linear Representation of Elevation in Human Auditory Cortex

The paper demonstrates that sound elevation is represented in a population-rate code in human auditory cortex using electroencephalography, confirming previous fMRI findings.

Humans parsimoniously represent auditory sequences by pruning and completing the underlying network structure

The paper shows humans use compressed network models to represent auditory sequences, pruning and completing relationships to efficiently capture both local and high-order structures.

Why is the perceptual octave stretched? An account based on mismatched time constants within the auditory brainstem.

The paper explains why listeners tolerate positive mistuning more than negative mistuning in an octave pair by proposing a neural circuit with mismatched time constants.

Phase alignment of low-frequency neural activity to the amplitude envelope of speech reflects evoked responses to acoustic edges, not oscillatory entrainment

This study investigates whether neural phase locking to speech amplitude envelopes reflects oscillatory entrainment or evoked responses to acoustic edges, finding support for the latter.

Repetition plasticity in primary auditory cortex occurs across long timescales for spectrotemporally randomized pure-tones

This study investigates repetition plasticity in mouse primary auditory cortex over long timescales, finding both suppression and enhancement in neural responses to repeated pure-tone frequencies.

Human-like Modulation SensitivityEmerging through Optimization to Natural Sound Recognition

This study shows that optimizing a neural network for natural sound recognition leads to human-like amplitude modulation sensitivity, suggesting evolutionary adaptation in auditory processing.

Perceptual learning of random acoustic patterns: Impact of temporal regularity and attention

The paper investigates how perceptual learning of random acoustic patterns is influenced by temporal regularity and attention, showing memory-related ERP effects and performance improvements with attention.

Nonlinear sensitivity to acoustic context is a stable feature of neuronal responses to complex sounds in auditory cortex of awake mice

The paper shows that neuronal sensitivity to acoustic context in auditory cortex of awake mice is stable over time and comparable to spectrotemporal tuning stability.

Effective networks mediate right hemispheric dominance of human 40 Hz auditory steady-state response

The paper investigates the directed information flow in the brain during 40 Hz auditory steady-state responses, revealing right hemispheric dominance and bidirectional interactions between specific cortical regions.

Individual neurophysiological signatures of spontaneous rhythm processing

The paper examines individual neurophysiological variability in rhythm processing using single-trial M/EEG data, revealing inter- and intra-participant differences in temporal prediction and beat grouping patterns.

Hemispheric decoupling of awareness-related activity in human auditory cortex under informational masking and divided attention

The paper investigates how auditory cortex activity differs between hemispheres during tasks involving attention and masking, finding left AC supports awareness while right AC is more automatic.

Investigating Predictive Coding in Younger and Older Children Using MEG and a Multi-Feature Auditory Oddball Paradigm

This study uses MEG to compare predictive brain function in younger and older children during an auditory oddball task, finding larger mismatch field amplitudes in older children, particularly in the right inferior frontal gyrus.

Effect of predicting familiar melodies on alpha power

This study investigates how familiar melodies affect alpha power, finding suppression in specific brain regions similar to language processing.

Rhythmic tapping to a moving beat: motion kinematics overrules motion naturalness.

This study shows that motion kinematics, not naturalness, determines rhythm synchronization when tapping to visual metronomes, with accelerating motion leading to more precise tapping.

Age-related brain mechanisms underlying short-term recognition of musical sequences: An EEG study

This study uses EEG to examine age-related differences in short-term recognition of musical sequences, finding reduced neural responses in older adults despite no behavioral differences.

The syntax-meter interface in spoken language and music: Same, different, or individually variable?

The paper compares individual variation in syntax and meter processing in language and music, finding domain-specific differences in how metrical regularity affects syntactic integration.

Laminar Specificity of the Auditory Perceptual Awareness Negativity: A Biophysical Modeling Study

This paper uses biophysical modeling to show that the auditory awareness negativity (AAN) arises from specific cortical layers and cell types in the auditory cortex.

Relative pitch representations and invariance to timbre

This study investigates how timbre affects relative pitch judgments and finds that pitch accuracy is reduced when sounds differ in timbre, even when judgments are based on fundamental frequency.

Brain state dynamics reflect emotion transitions induced by music

The paper shows that brain activity along the temporoparietal axis reflects transitions between music-evoked emotions and is sensitive to emotional context.

The human language system, including its inferior frontal component in 'Broca's area', does not support music perception

This study investigates whether the language system, including Broca's area, supports music perception through fMRI and aphasia patient analyses, finding no engagement of language regions in music processing.

Beyond Linear Neural Envelope Tracking: A Mutual Information Approach

This paper compares linear and mutual information analyses of EEG data to study neural envelope tracking, finding that mutual information, particularly using Gaussian copula, better captures nonlinear speech processing.

Two stages of bandwidth scaling drives efficient neural coding of natural sounds

The paper investigates how bandwidth scaling in auditory filters improves the neural coding of natural sounds by whitening representations across frequency, time, and modulation dimensions.

Different time encoding strategies within the medial premotor areas of the primate

This study investigates how neural activity in the medial premotor cortex of macaques encodes time during interval categorization and rhythmic timing tasks, revealing distinct encoding strategies and neural clocks.

Power Series Template Matching Model for Pitch Perception

The paper proposes a Power Series Template (PoST) model to explain pitch perception by generating harmonic templates through reinforcement learning and mode coupling.

Inferring the basis of binaural detection with a modified autoencoder

This study uses modified autoencoders to infer latent mechanisms of binaural detection, finding artificial neurons that mimic cross-correlation dynamics similar to animal models.

Early maturation of sound duration processing in the infant brain

This study examines sound duration processing in infants using EEG source reconstruction, finding developmental changes in ERP waveforms and their underlying neural generators between four and nine months.

Early frequency-specific contributions to serial-effects in audition

The paper investigates serial effects in audition, finding that pitch contraction occurs between same-timbre tones but not when low-level frequency components are altered, suggesting early auditory processing contributes to perceptual biases.