Neuroscience and Music Perception

The paper shows that auditory cortex deviance detection encodes the difference between internal predictions and sensory input, supporting the predictive coding framework.

The paper examines how auditory brainstem and cortical anatomy influences the magnitude of frequency-following responses (FFRs) and event-related potentials (ERPs) in speech-in-noise perception.

This study shows that macaques can synchronize to complex rhythms and generalize rhythmic representations, similar to humans, with a bias towards isochrony and integer ratios.

The paper investigates an auditory 'low road' for threat processing in humans, finding that high-rate amplitude-modulated threat cues elicit rapid responses linked to thalamo-amygdala connectivity.

The paper shows that auditory sensitivity to sound changes is gated by temporal boundaries, with sensitivity peaking mid-sound and dropping near onset and offset.

The paper investigates how noise-invariant auditory representations emerge in the auditory cortex by analyzing the response patterns of different excitatory neuron subpopulations in mice.

This study investigates implicit memory for reoccurring sound patterns using UHF fMRI, finding that reoccurrence enhances perceptual precision and engages specific brain regions.

This study investigates how talker identity affects spatial attention and interruption effects in auditory tasks, finding that distinct talkers improve performance and reduce interruption impact, while discontinuities harm attention buildup.

This study identifies echo-facilitated temporal sensitivity (EFTS) as a mechanism where echoes enhance the auditory system's ability to detect rapid temporal changes in sound.

This study compares structural connectivity of voice-sensitive brain regions in humans and macaques using dMRI, finding similar A1 projections but distinct aTVA connectivity patterns and lateralization.

The paper investigates attentional modulation in auditory responses, finding cortical but not brainstem modulation during a selective attention task.

This paper shows that speaker identity is encoded in spatial patterns of intracranial EEG during attention, enabling a new method for auditory attention decoding.

This paper introduces a computational model of auditory cortical responses using gated recurrency, showing improved prediction over existing methods and revealing memory differences between primary and secondary auditory cortex.

This study shows that auditory cortex uses both head-centered and world-centered reference frames for sound localization, with head-centered coding dominant at the start but incorporating more world-centered information over time.

This study uses ECoG to examine high-frequency neural activity in humans during auditory sequences, showing that both local and global prediction errors are encoded in high-frequency oscillations.

The paper investigates how different cortical layers in human auditory cortex process tone prediction, comparison, and adaptation using fMRI and computational modeling.

The paper investigates neural codes for multiple pitch perception using synthetic stimuli and finds that rate-place models explain simple tasks but not more complex ones involving multiple pitches.

The paper shows natural sound categories are organized across continuous cortical gradients integrating acoustic and semantic information, revealing a new framework for understanding auditory perception.

This study maps neural ensembles for language and music production under varying rhythmic complexity and finds that higher complexity engages more language-related brain regions.

This study shows that theta band neural entrainment predicts groove perception in popular music, with multivariate decoding models achieving high accuracy in predicting individual groove ratings.

This study investigates whether auditory temporal attention operates under the same constraints as visual attention, finding that auditory attention improves discrimination without tradeoffs.

The paper uses human intracranial recordings to study neural activity during an auditory working memory task, finding attractor-like states in brain regions associated with memory maintenance and adjustment.

This paper uses biophysical modeling to investigate the neurophysiology of mismatch negativity (MMN) in humans, identifying specific cortical layers and circuits involved in deviant processing.

This study examines how musical groove affects sensorimotor network cortical dynamics during active tapping and passive listening, finding stronger micro rhythm suppression during active tapping and an effect of groove level.

This study examines how psychosocial stress affects temporal and spatial reproduction tasks, finding stress selectively enhances interval timing through cortisol-dopamine interactions.

The paper develops task-optimized models of sensory uncertainty and shows human confidence judgments align with model-derived uncertainty estimates in sound localization and pitch perception.

The paper investigates how the auditory system adapts to spatial sound contexts, showing that sound localization shifts based on recent auditory experiences.

The paper shows that theta-gamma rhythms in human auditory cortex reflect speech acoustics, with distinct neural populations processing different speech timescales.

This study investigates how attention affects musical prediction by comparing neural tracking of long-term and short-term musical learning during dual-task listening.

This study uses fMRI to compare brain activation patterns for externalized and internalized sounds, identifying key regions involved in auditory externalization.