Neuroscience and Music Perception

This study examines the differences between ON and OFF auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs), showing they originate from distinct cortical regions and are modulated by attention and musicality.

The paper shows that changes in sensory responses, not arousal, affect time perception using electrophysiology and pupillometry.

The paper investigates oscillatory entrainment in auditory cortical and subcortical structures using FFR data from MEG and EEG, finding evidence of phase alignment and frequency convergence.

The paper investigates neural correlates of auditory pattern learning in anesthetized rats using electrocorticography, finding decreased beta band activity for familiar reference sequences compared to novel sequences.

This study investigates corticothalamic feedback in awake marmosets, showing frequency-specific effects on MGB neurons and changes in tuning bandwidth.

The paper shows that music-selective neural populations exist in individuals without musical training and respond to various music types and rhythms.

The paper introduces a method using re-synthesized 'peaky' speech and EEG deconvolution to identify distinct subcortical components of the auditory brainstem response during speech processing.

The paper investigates how neural synchronization and predictive processing contribute to sensorimotor synchronization with different beat subdivisions, finding a binary grouping advantage and musical training effects.

The paper isolates task engagement and arousal effects in auditory cortex and midbrain using single-unit recordings and generalized linear modeling, finding distinct neural population responses to each.

This study examines how cerebellar lesions affect auditory encoding and processing of sound sequences with regular or irregular timing, finding delayed ERP responses and variable temporal processing in patients.

The paper investigates how humans discriminate between regular and irregular rhythms by accumulating timing-error signals from sensory pulses.

The paper investigates how auditory attention modulates neural phase-locking to sound streams and finds that attention enhances sinusoidal modulations aligned with sound rhythm.

The paper investigates whether mismatch negativity (MMN) responses differ based on acoustic feature changes, finding no significant differences in univariate analysis but multivariate decoding of features from MMN topography.

The paper shows that pre-stimulus delta/theta band EEG activity influences the rhythmic sampling of auditory scenes by modulating perceptual weights over time.

The paper investigates neural responses to musical temporal fine structure and finds no attentional modulation in competing instruments.

The paper investigates how musical expertise affects brain networks, finding robust effects of musicianship but no significant impact of absolute pitch.

This study identifies subcortical sources as key drivers of speech-in-noise perception through frequency-following responses (FFRs) using EEG source reconstruction.

This study investigates how stimulus intensity affects neural speech envelope tracking in normal-hearing participants using EEG and finds that envelope reconstruction is robust when the decoder is trained and tested on the same intensity.

This study compares the neural correlates of music and food-induced pleasure using a meta-analysis of 38 neuroimaging studies, finding common and distinct brain regions involved.

The paper demonstrates that temporal coherence of acoustic features enables rapid binding of attended sound sources in auditory scenes through EEG measurements.

The paper develops a model to predict auditory externalization in static listening conditions, finding that a fixed weighting of monaural and interaural cues best explains perceptual judgments.

The paper tracks brain structural and functional changes in aspiring musicians over six months, finding gray-matter volume decreases and increased functional connectivity in key auditory regions compared to amateur musicians.

The paper explores how motor neurophysiology contributes to beat perception, proposing roles for the supplementary motor area and dorsal striatum in covert beat maintenance and temporal prediction.

This study shows that macaque supplementary motor area (SMA) activity correlates with perceptual invariance of sounds, suggesting motor predictions, not just sensory representations, underlie invariant recognition.

The paper investigates the neural basis of music-evoked emotions using fMRI, finding distinct brain activity patterns for different emotions in auditory and motor regions.

The paper shows that left ventral MGB modulation increases during speech recognition in noisy conditions compared to clear speech or speaker identity tasks.

The paper investigates how timing skill training affects neural activity and performance in perceptual and motor timing tasks, finding heterogeneous responses and common neural changes in the timing network.

The paper investigates rapid brain mechanisms for encoding and predicting complex temporal sound sequences using MEG data from 68 participants.

This study uses computational modeling to show that single-trial neural dynamics, specifically smaller P2 amplitudes, predict successful auditory category learning in nonmusicians.

This study investigates neural mechanisms of auditory decision making in monkeys, finding that primary auditory cortex encodes task-relevant information before prefrontal and amygdala regions.