Neuroscience and Music Perception

This study compares neural responses to auditory stimuli between musicians and non-musicians using gamma-band entrainment, finding musicians show greater top-down control and non-musicians benefit from entrained gamma responses.

The paper investigates how internal reference frames are constructed in temporal perception by analyzing serial dependence in duration estimation tasks and proposes a Bayesian model to explain the findings.

This paper introduces a method to map the human auditory cortex using MEG-derived spectrotemporal receptive fields, revealing tonotopic gradients and spatial organization.

This study investigates the causal role of the left DLPFC in pitch labeling for absolute pitch by using transcranial stimulation and finds that AP possessors show interference effects and performance changes under stimulation.

The paper reviews Vierordt's law, simulates original results with Bayesian updating, and concludes the law arises from an unnatural experimental protocol.

The paper uses dynamic causal modelling to show the auditory system processes nested sound patterns across three timescales by adjusting neural connectivity based on learned regularities.

The paper investigates modality-specific beta band neural activity during rhythm perception, finding distinct patterns for auditory and visual rhythms.

This study investigates cortical sources of frequency following responses (FFRs) to speech across species, finding robust FFRs in auditory cortex and their contribution to scalp-recorded signals.

This paper improves f0 tracking by optimizing features to better match neural responses, resulting in higher correlation between predicted and actual f0 features.

This study uses fMRI to show that expert cellists and singers share brain networks for pitch regulation, with differences in motor control areas.

This study shows that SMA neurons transition from auditory to movement representations during sound-based decision tasks in monkeys.

The paper uses FPAS and EEG to show robust voice-selective brain responses independent of low-level acoustic features, demonstrating automatic voice categorization.

The paper shows that cortical tracking of background speech rhythms modulates comprehension of foreground speech, with opposing phase effects when targeting different speech streams.

The paper investigates how attention modulates speech representations in the brain during multitalker listening tasks, finding attentional effects across multiple processing stages.

This study shows that directing attention to temporal aspects of a paced finger tapping task improves accuracy and resynchronization efficiency, using auditory ERPs and mental workload reports.

This study investigates how aging affects neural synchronization to amplitude-modulated sounds, finding increased cortical excitability in older adults that alters sensitivity to envelope dynamics.

This paper introduces a machine-learning pipeline for analysing MEG data to detect beat-related oscillatory power modulation, showing clearer patterns than traditional methods.

This study shows that musical experience improves temporal speech processing in older adults with mild cognitive impairment, suggesting potential cognitive protection.

This study shows that musical expertise improves neural statistical learning, as evidenced by better performance and distinct EEG correlates in musicians compared to non-musicians.

The paper identifies stronger recurrent connections in the right auditory cortex of mice, leading to longer temporal integration windows, supporting lateralized speech processing theories.

This study identifies six types of human scream calls, showing non-alarm screams are more efficiently processed cognitively and neurally than alarm screams.

The paper shows that call feature selectivity emerges in superficial layers of primary auditory cortex through changes in neural representation.

The paper investigates how temporal context influences EEG signatures of time perception during interval reproduction, showing that context dynamically affects neural dynamics and can be decoded from EEG signals.

This study investigates how environmental viscosity affects temporal perception by manipulating movement in a robotic arm task, finding that higher viscosity leads to shorter perceived durations.

The paper investigates how the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism influences auditory prediction plasticity in musicians versus non-musicians using MEG.

The paper shows participants implicitly use regular time intervals to anticipate future events in a naturalistic game-like environment, extending timing research to ecologically valid settings.

The paper investigates how attention modulates corticofugal feedback in human speech perception in noise, showing attention enhances subcortical speech processing and strengthens corticofugal signaling.

This study uses intracranial EEG to analyze the functional organization of Heschl's gyrus during natural speech listening, revealing a gradient of acoustic and linguistic feature processing.

This study investigates whether rhythmic cues improve perceptual discrimination and finds no evidence of entrainment, but suggests a link between cue frequency and faster reaction times.

The paper investigates how musical pleasure is shared between individuals during a live concert, finding that physical proximity and synchronized emotional reports correlate with increased cerebral coherence and skin conductance coupling.