Neuroscience and Music Perception

This study shows that musical expertise leads to more subadditive neural responses to complex auditory stimuli, suggesting more integrative processing of acoustic features.

The paper shows that marmoset primary auditory cortex neurons have uniform frequency tuning within local regions, indicating a tonotopic organization at both macro and microscopic levels.

The paper investigates how perceptual learning of pure tones versus natural sounds affects neural plasticity in the auditory cortex, finding that natural sounds induce sparsening and decorrelation, improving discrimination of complex sounds.

This study examines whether a detail-oriented cognitive style explains the co-occurrence of absolute pitch and autistic traits in musicians, finding inconsistent results across visual and auditory tasks.

This study investigates how aging affects neural processing of temporal regularity in sounds, finding increased cortical gain and reduced sustained activity in older adults.

This study uses fMRI to show that the human planum temporale encodes auditory motion directions and sound source locations with partially shared but distinct neural patterns.

The paper investigates how attentional modulation of neural phase is enhanced by short-term training and linked to musical experience in auditory attention tasks.

This study investigates how rhythmic and harmonic complexity influence the sensation of groove, finding that rhythm has an inverted U-shaped effect while harmony modulates rhythm's impact on pleasure and movement desire.

The paper shows that individual listening success in a dichotic task is best predicted by the combined effect of neural speech tracking and alpha power lateralization, not their individual contributions.

This study attempts to replicate findings on absolute pitch-specific brain activity in musicians but finds no evidence for an absolute pitch-specific negativity.

The paper shows that listeners detect changes in auditory scenes better when sources have regular patterns, even if they are unaware of the regularity.

This study shows that high visual load impairs auditory figure-ground segregation, suggesting it requires attention rather than being automatic.

The paper tests a sensory model of auditory cortex by comparing neural responses to natural and model-matched stimuli, finding divergent responses in non-primary regions that suggest higher-order computations.

The paper shows that low-level auditory processing in rats explains beat perception in music through increased firing rates on beats.

The paper identifies two distinct predictive mechanisms in human auditory cortex during speech perception and production, revealing their anatomical and functional roles in predicting 'when' and 'what' acoustic events occur.

This study investigates emotional prosody recognition in congenital amusia, finding preserved performance in sentences but deficits in vowels, linked to pitch processing difficulties.

The paper examines how music genres are represented in the human brain using fMRI and voxel-wise modeling, finding distinct cortical organizations in the STG explained by spectro-temporal modulation.

This study finds that absolute pitch musicians perform better in an interleaved melody recognition task, with their proficiency, visual disembedding ability, and musicality explaining 39.2% of the variance.

This study investigates how pre-stimulus brain activity influences auditory perception in young and older adults, finding consistent relationships between rhythmic brain activity and sensory encoding despite age-related changes.

The paper investigates task-related plasticity in ferret primary auditory cortex, finding greater enhancement of auditory target representation in layers 2/3 compared to layers 4-6.

The paper shows that late cortical tracking of ignored speech enhances neural selectivity in noisy conditions by involving fronto-parietal regions.

The paper investigates how voice features like glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length contribute to the voice-continuity benefit in the cocktail party problem.

The paper investigates species-specific differences in pitch perception by comparing ferrets and humans, finding that cochlear filter bandwidths influence the salience of temporal envelope and harmonic cues.

The paper shows that brain responses to sound deviants are larger in patterned sequences than in random ones, indicating context-dependent processing of regularity.

This study compares temporal processing in duration categorization and identification tasks, finding behavioral and ERP differences in cognitive resource use.

The paper shows that thalamocortical projections from the medial geniculate body to A2 establish tonotopy in the secondary auditory field, with greater divergence than to A1.

The paper investigates why older adults show more robust speech signal tracking in challenging conditions, finding that they recruit additional auditory regions earlier than younger adults.

The paper shows that neural entrainment to speech rhythms influences perceived word duration and meaning.

The paper measures physiological responses to salient auditory stimuli in natural soundscapes using EEG and identifies salient portions of the scene through entrainment and oscillatory response reductions.

The paper investigates human sound localization and finds that decreasing sound intensity causes localization to collapse toward the midline, supporting a hemispheric-difference model over a labelled-line model.