Neuroscience and Music Perception

The paper investigates how neurons in the rabbit inferior colliculus respond to chirp velocity and periodicity, finding that periodicity has a stronger influence on responses than velocity.

This study examines neural mechanisms for processing musical syntax across genres and musicianship, finding distinct brain regions involved in tonality and musical expertise.

This study compares subcortical and cortical responses to music and speech using auditory brainstem responses derived via deconvolution with a computational auditory periphery model, finding high similarity in both regions.

This study compares P3b neural responses during word discrimination and speech-token/tonal oddball tasks, finding differences in latency and amplitude related to task complexity and reaction time variability.

The paper uses a hierarchical RNN to model ERP responses to intensity oddball stimuli, revealing differences in hidden unit amplitudes across latency ranges and MMN polarity changes with stimulus intensity.

This study shows that selective attention reduces auditory cortex responses to attended frequencies in humans using high-resolution fMRI, contrasting with previous findings.

The paper compares how rule-based and stimulus-based cues influence auditory decisions, finding distinct computational and physiological mechanisms for each.

The paper shows that prior neutral exposure to stimuli slows discrimination learning in mice and is associated with delayed neuronal response dynamics in the auditory cortex.

This study examines how familiar background music affects neural tracking of speech in noisy environments, finding that familiar music reduces speech comprehension challenges.

This study examines how 7-8-year-old children and adults process task-irrelevant sounds during everyday activities, finding immature neuronal mechanisms in children.

The paper investigates how cortical α states dynamically influence brainstem speech coding during speech perception in noise.

This paper reviews neural tracking as a framework to assess auditory and linguistic processing during speech perception, highlighting three analyses: f0-tracking, envelope tracking, and linguistic feature tracking.

The paper investigates how individual differences in spontaneous motor tempo influence the effect of external rhythmic visual stimuli on visual discrimination performance.

The paper shows that using naturalistic high-noise HRTFs and not applying delay line corrections improves predictions of ITD discrimination thresholds from environmental statistics.

This study uses fMRI to analyze functional brain dynamics during music listening in adolescents, finding increased engagement of the orbitofrontal cortex reward system.

The paper examines the relationship between working memory abilities and brain activity during long-term recognition of auditory sequences, finding positive correlations in specific brain regions.

This study investigates cortical envelope tracking during speech processing using auditory chimeras, finding that acoustic processing dominates but speech-specific processing also contributes.

The paper investigates how anxiety and depression affect sub- and supra-second interval timing by examining their impact on frontal-midline theta and occipital alpha oscillations.

This study investigates how temporal coherence and temporal predictability in precursor sounds influence auditory grouping and masking by testing their effects on tone detection.

This study measures sound localization acuity in common marmosets using operant conditioning, finding minimum audible angles of 13-22 degrees for horizontal and vertical sound locations.

This study maps functional organization of mouse auditory cortex under varying stimulus complexity and brain states, identifying new regions and gradients responsive to specific auditory features.

This study investigates how cortical tracking of voice pitch changes when multiple speakers are present, finding that selective attention modulates pitch tracking in the presence of competing speech streams.

The paper compares psychometric and neurometric measures of temporal discrimination in rhesus macaques, showing subcortical thresholds are higher and more variable than behavioral thresholds.

This study shows that neural synchronization to music is strongest for spectral flux, not amplitude envelope, and is influenced by tempo, familiarity, and beat salience.

The paper investigates how harmonicity affects brain responses to sound sequences, finding larger MMN and P3a amplitudes and earlier latencies for harmonic sounds compared to inharmonic ones.

The paper introduces a new experimental paradigm called DEA to study central auditory processing by mathematically separating overlapping neural responses to closely timed auditory stimuli.

This paper conducts a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies to identify neuroanatomical and functional differences between musicians and non-musicians.

This study examines how an eight-week music-based intervention affects brain network connectivity in older adults, showing increased functional connectivity between auditory regions and medial prefrontal cortex.

This study investigates the role of somatostatin interneurons in auditory cortex during perceptual categorization using imaging and perturbation techniques, finding they refine frequency discriminability and contribute to categorical decision-making.

The paper examines how prediction error and adaptation differ across auditory cortical regions during deviance processing using fMRI and an auditory oddball paradigm.