Neuroscience and Music Perception

Attention modulates neural representations of acoustic, categorical, and identity features in a task-dependent manner

This study shows attention modulates auditory representations at different levels depending on the task and scene structure, enhancing low-level features in indistinct scenes and category-level representations in cross-category scenes.

Neural Decoding of Musical Engagement Reveals Tension-Release Dynamics

This study uses EEG and ECoG to decode musical tension dynamics and their relationship with neural engagement during naturalistic music listening.

Figure--ground relationship of voices in musical structure modulates reciprocal frontotemporal connectivity

The paper examines how frontotemporal connectivity changes with repeated exposure to musical phrases, showing a shift in figure-ground relationships between melody and lower voices.

Simultaneous EEG-fMRI investigation of sound sequence processing in human neonates

This study uses simultaneous EEG and fMRI in neonates to investigate how the brain detects sound sequence deviance, finding localized processing in sensory and limbic systems.

Neural Signatures of Automatic Auditory Regularity Detection Reflect Individual Differences in Explicit Short-Term Memory

The paper links neural signatures of auditory regularity detection to individual differences in explicit short-term memory performance using EEG and behavioral tasks.

Reconstructing Voice Identity from Noninvasive Auditory Cortex Recordings

This study uses a deep neural network to create a voice latent space that maps to auditory cortex activity, showing it better represents speaker identity than primary auditory cortex.

Cortical deviance detection represents a canonical difference signal

The paper shows that neural responses to auditory deviants in primary auditory cortex encode frequency differences and contextual memory, supporting the idea of sensory prediction errors as difference signals.

The Interplay of Bottom-Up Arousal and Attentional Capture during Auditory Scene Analysis: Evidence from Ocular Dynamics

This study examines how arousal and attention interact during auditory scene analysis by measuring pupil dilation and microsaccades in response to scene changes in predictable versus unpredictable sound environments.

Auditory brainstem-cortical anatomy constrains the magnitude of frequency-following responses (FFRs) and event-related potentials (ERPs) coding speech-in-noise

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.

Auditory Working Memory Mediates the Relationship between Musical Sophistication and Speech-in-noise Perception

Interaural time and level differences contribute differently to source segregation and spatial selection

This study investigates how interaural time and level differences affect sound source segregation and spatial selection in auditory tasks.

Categorical rhythmic priors in macaques

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.

An auditory "low road" for threat in humans sensitive to fast temporal cues

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.

Temporal boundary gating of auditory sensitivity

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.

Canonical cortical architecture supports the emergence of noise-invariant auditory representations

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.

Chimeric music reveals an interaction of pitch and time in electrophysiological signatures of music encoding

This study investigates how pitch and time interact in neural encoding of music using chimeric music and TRF analysis, showing structural violations affect expectation processing and beat perception.

Neural correlates of implicit memory for reoccurring sound patterns

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

Distinct talkers combat catastrophic failures of spatial attention due to interruption

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.

SPONTANEOUS VISUAL IMAGERY DURING EXTENDED MUSIC LISTENING IS ASSOCIATED WITH RELIABLE ALPHA SUPPRESSION

The paper investigates the neural correlates of music-evoked visual imagery using EEG and finds that spontaneous imagery is associated with more reliable alpha power suppression compared to deliberate imagery.

Echoes as Signal, Not Noise: Reverberation Sharpens Sensitivity to Temporal Structure

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.

Neural pathways of voice perception: a comparative dMRI study between humans and macaques.

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.

Attention to Psuedo-Tone Melodies Enhances Cortical but Not Brainstem Responses in Humans

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

Threat-Related Corticocortical Connectivity Elicited by Rapid Auditory Looms

The paper examines corticocortical connectivity patterns in response to looming and receding sounds, finding frontal cortical involvement in auditory looming processing without conscious threat perception.

Speaker Identity is Robustly Encoded in Spatial Patterns of Intracranial EEG for Attention Decoding

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

Corticofugal gated recurrency captures auditory cortical responses

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.

The origins of time: a systematic review of the neural signatures of temporal prediction in infancy

This paper reviews neural signatures of temporal prediction in infants, finding broad cerebral localization and development from sensory-driven to top-down processes.

Head-Centred Sound Localisation Behaviour Reveals Head and World Centered Reference Frames in 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.

Auditory discrimination and identification of time of day for natural soundscapes

This study assesses human ability to identify and discriminate time of day from natural soundscapes, finding poor identification but significant discrimination, with decisions based on gross spectral cues.

High-Frequency Activity Encodes the Temporal Dynamics of Hierarchical Prediction Errors in Humans: An Electrocorticography Study

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.

FastACI: A Toolbox for Investigating Auditory Perception using Reverse Correlation

The paper introduces fastACI, a toolbox for auditory reverse-correlation experiments, demonstrating its use through case studies on auditory perception tasks.