Neuroscience and Music Perception

The paper investigates why older adults show more robust speech signal tracking in challenging conditions, finding that they recruit additional auditory regions earlier than younger adults.

The paper shows that neural entrainment to speech rhythms influences perceived word duration and meaning.

The paper shows that primary auditory cortex encodes stimulus meaning more during task engagement than passive listening, with population-level changes in encoding.

The paper identifies two spatially distinct regions in human auditory cortex that process speech onsets and prosodic information in parallel.

This study compares brain activation during singing and cello playing in expert musicians to determine how musical instrument playing co-opts brain networks evolved for singing.

This study investigates whether neural synchronization and sustained activity are dissociable or interdependent in processing temporal sound patterns using EEG experiments.

This study uses intracranial electrophysiology to investigate auditory novelty processing in humans, showing distinct spatiotemporal patterns of cortical activation across time scales.

The paper identifies distinct time-scales of neural speech tracking in auditory and motor regions that correlate with specific linguistic features and comprehension.

The paper uses forward encoding models to track temporal hazard in EEG data during a pitch-discrimination task, showing that hazard function variations are reflected in neural signals, particularly in the supplementary motor area.

The paper shows that listeners can influence how many sound sources they perceive, as evidenced by neural activity patterns that align with their perceptual intentions.

The paper shows that speech sound categorization relies on focal neural activity in the temporal cortex, while distributed activity reflects collateral processes.

The paper investigates spatial release from masking using fNIRS, finding that auditory attention activates lateral frontal cortex, with stronger activation in spatially separated configurations.

This study develops a method to measure auditory brainstem responses to continuous natural speech, showing high similarity to click-evoked responses and enabling subcortical analysis.

The paper investigates how perceived motion of sounds varies with azimuth and introduces the equivalent arc ratio to explain spatial localization discrepancies.

The paper investigates perceptual filling-in of missing acoustic rhythm using MEG, finding that sustained rhythmic neural power correlates with perceived rhythm despite absent sensory input.

This study investigates how musicians process musical imagery compared to actual music perception, finding distinct network interactions involving Wernicke’s area.

This paper shows that spectrally-directed attention modulates auditory cortex activation in a way that mirrors tonotopic organization and correlates with myeloarchitecture.

This study shows that SOM and PV interneurons differentially shape frequency tuning in auditory cortex during adaptation, with SOM-driven inhibition maintaining selectivity.

This study develops a method to measure the human auditory brainstem response to running speech and shows it is modulated by selective attention.

This study uses MEG to show how auditory cortex represents multiple speech streams in complex scenes, with primary areas encoding the whole scene and higher areas focusing on attended streams.

This study identifies two types of auditory cortex neurons in freely moving ferrets: one encoding sound location relative to the head and another relative to the world.

This study shows that high-dimensional brain states from human EEG correlate with temporal judgements and exhibit properties of temporal perception.