Neuroscience and Music Perception

This study shows that harmonic frequency relations improve hearing in noise for both musicians and non-musicians, aiding detection and discrimination of sounds.

This study investigates how emotional sounds are processed in the brain, finding that different regions respond to either the presented or perceived emotion.

The paper uses intracranial EEG data to analyze how the brain encodes and decodes music perception, identifying key roles of the right superior temporal gyri.

This study uses a deep neural network with human ears to model sound localization in realistic environments, showing how biological hearing adapts to real-world challenges.

This study examines how temporal learning affects post-interval ERPs in a categorization task, finding duration-related early N200 and context-dependent late LPC components.

The paper investigates perceptual biases in auditory categorization by distinguishing between aftereffects from previous stimuli and prediction biases from learned temporal regularities using a rat behavioral model.

The paper uses fMRI and hidden Markov models to show that brain regions involved in narrative event segmentation also represent high-level event structure in music.

This study uses fMRI adaptation to estimate single-neuron frequency tuning in human auditory cortex, finding that multi-adaptor suppression reflects greater neuronal selectivity than single-adaptor suppression.

The paper shows that primates internally maintain rhythms through widespread brain activity resembling a metronome, replaying sensory-motor engrams without external stimuli.

The paper compares implicit and explicit timing mechanisms using MEG, finding that implicit timing improves behavioral and neural responses, while explicit timing does not benefit from temporal predictions.

This study investigates how speech prosody aids in speaker selection and auditory stream segregation in multi-talker environments through behavioral and neural responses.

The paper tests a state-dependent model of subsecond time perception against experimental data, showing it reproduces key findings and provides a new theory for timing mechanisms.

The paper identifies auditory salience detection in the posterior superior temporal region using intracranial EEG during speech and noise tasks, showing sustained and recurrent responses to paired stimuli.

This study examines how explicit knowledge of reward irrelevancy affects reward priming in auditory decision-making, showing that explicit instruction leads to both enhancement and inhibition, while implicit instruction only results in inhibition.

The paper shows that early exposure to rare sounds before ear-canal opening leads to long-term changes in adult auditory cortex representation, while frequent sounds do not.

This study investigates magnitude estimation in gerbils, showing primate-like characteristics and identifying neural mechanisms in the prefrontal cortex that encode the regression effect.

The paper investigates whether the auditory system can identify and localize two synchronous sounds, finding that identification is possible with spatial separation but localization remains at the average location.

This study investigates implicit auditory perception of local and global irregularities using ERP components in passive listening, finding distinct electrophysiological responses to different types of irregularities.

This study inhibits inferior frontal cortex activity during affective speech processing and finds it improves decision speed and accuracy for clear speech while reducing cortical activity and increasing fronto-limbic connectivity.

The paper estimates cortical synchronization limits to dynamic binaural cues and links them to perceptual limitations in auditory spatial perception.

This study shows that mice's auditory cortex suppresses responses to self-generated sounds based on movement-based predictions, revealing distinct neural populations for expectation and prediction error.

This study assesses the reliability of neural entrainment in the auditory system over time and links it to auditory perception.

The paper examines inter-subject correlation (ISC) of EEG and behavioral responses to minimalist music, finding lower ISC for minimalist stimuli compared to popular music.

This study examines how interoceptive sensitivity affects heart rate and insula activity during music-induced emotional responses, finding that high interoceptive sensitivity correlates with increased physiological and neural responses to emotionally high-touching music.

The paper examines how task engagement modulates neuronal activity in the auditory pathway of mice, identifying distinct modulation patterns across brain regions.

The paper shows that dual sound presentation reduces decoding accuracy in monkey inferior colliculus neurons, suggesting alternative coding strategies rather than improved frequency selectivity.

This study investigates the role of cortical offset responses in sound termination detection and shows they are behaviorally relevant and generated de novo in the auditory cortex.

This study investigates how supplementary motor area (SMA) excitability affects rhythm discrimination using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), finding improved performance with increased SMA excitability.

The paper uses human intracerebral recordings to show that voice is encoded categorically in STG and STS, not by acoustic features, and this selectivity increases along the auditory hierarchy.

This study shows that auditory cortical gradients are organized by both spectral content and pitch, with primary regions tuned to spectral content and higher-level pitch tuning in surrounding areas.