Neuroscience and Music Perception

The paper demonstrates that spectral content influences statistical learning of musical scale structure through two experiments with different timbre conditions.

This study shows that successful learning of nonspeech sound categories involves both short-term neural efficiency gains and preexisting structural differences in auditory cortex.

This study investigates how 'what' and 'when' predictions modulate auditory processing in different contexts, finding context-specific interactions and shared neural mechanisms.

The paper investigates location-specific facilitation in marmoset auditory cortex, finding that repetitive sound stimulation from a single location increases neural firing rates, suggesting a novel form of contextual modulation.

This study shows how musical preference is generated through learned predictions and reward, using novel melodies and fMRI data across multiple studies.

The paper investigates how individual differences in spontaneous production rate and social context affect musical synchronization, finding that nonlinear models better capture synchronization adjustments.

The paper uses hierarchical RNNs to analyze auditory cortex responses in anaesthetized mice, identifying distinct 'danger' and 'safety' neural units during sound stimulation.

The paper develops a population encoding model using CNNs to predict auditory neuron activity across natural sounds, showing improved generalizability compared to traditional models.

The paper shows that serial bias in perception arises from the co-occurrence of past-trial neural reactivation and current-trial feature encoding, leading to feature-specific biases.

This study shows that the magnocellular division of the human medial geniculate nucleus preferentially responds to auditory transients, similar to its visual counterpart.

This study shows how auditory cortical neurons adapt to sound reverberation by adjusting their filtering properties to dereverberate sounds.

The paper investigates brain mechanisms for predicting and error processing in music, finding distinct neural regions for local acoustic and cognitive priors, with enhanced involvement in musicians.

This study shows that auditory cortical ensembles integrate sound and locomotion information in mice and rats, rather than being suppressed by locomotion.

This study identifies two stages of envelope tracking in human auditory cortex, with high-γ power reflecting fast processing and θ phase correlating with speech intelligibility.

This study decodes mnemonic and predictive representations in the auditory cortex of anesthetized rats using ECoG during stimulus sequences with noise bursts or omissions, showing they arise from overlapping but independent neural populations.

The paper quantifies individual auditory prediction tendencies and shows they facilitate cortical speech tracking and interact with noise and word surprisal.

The paper shows that attention to memory enhances recall precision by improving neural fidelity in specific brain regions, particularly the left superior temporal sulcus.

This study finds that higher spontaneous eye blink rates, a proxy for striatal dopamine, correlate with poorer temporal precision in interval timing.

This study distinguishes neural coding for local and summary representations of sound textures using EEG and computational models.

This study investigates how auditory cortex feedback influences predictive coding in the inferior colliculus through optogenetic inactivation in awake mice.

This study uses fNIRS and EEG to examine cortical responses to voice pitch changes, finding right-hemispheric activity and sustained fNIRS signals for variable prosody.

The paper investigates how mouse auditory cortex neurons respond to periodic and random sound sequences, finding distinct functional subnetworks that prefer regularity or irregularity in sound structures.

This study examines the relationship between musical sophistication and auditory working memory, finding that musical sophistication explains 21% of the variance in frequency working memory precision.

This study links interindividual differences in aversion to rough sounds with neural excitability at 40 Hz, showing correlations with anxiety levels and suggesting 40 Hz sounds as neuromarkers for conditions like autism and schizophrenia.

The paper evaluates behavioral and EEG-based measures as individualized assays for temporal fine structure (TFS) coding in the auditory system and finds that adjusted binaural measures show robust correlations with TFS processing.

The paper investigates hierarchical predictive auditory processing in marmoset brains using fMRI and ECoG, showing a gradient from local to global processing across brain regions.

This study shows that inhibitory neurons in the auditory cortex are crucial for detecting sounds in noisy environments.

This study investigates how visual working memory load affects duration encoding and reproduction, finding distinct impacts on central-tendency bias depending on the stage of the task.

The paper investigates how auditory neurons track sound envelopes in noisy conditions and finds that slow amplitude modulations are better tracked, affecting discrimination performance.

This study examines how humans synchronize and reproduce rhythms, finding that memory-paced tapping is less flexible than real-time synchronization, especially for speech rhythms.