Neuroscience and Music Perception

Monkeys have rhythm

This study shows that macaques can synchronize taps to a subjective beat in real music, challenging the vocal learning hypothesis.

Distinct Roles of Deep and Superficial Cortical Layers in Tone Prediction, Comparison, and Adaptation in Human Auditory Cortex

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

Dissociating the neural codes for multiple pitch perception in humans

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.

Discovery, Interruption, and Updating of Auditory Regularities in Memory: Evidence from Low-Frequency Brain Dynamics in Human MEG

This study investigates how the brain establishes and updates predictive models of auditory patterns using MEG, finding that model reactivation is faster for familiar patterns and involves auditory, hippocampal, and frontal areas.

Eye blinks synchronize with musical beats during music listening

The paper shows that eye blinks synchronize with musical beats in non-musicians, linking this behavior to neural and white matter mechanisms.

Auditory Cortical Gradients Integrate Bottom-Up and Top-Down Structure During Natural Sound Categorisation

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.

Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation

The paper investigates how inharmonicity affects neural responses to auditory stimuli, finding that it enhances attentional capture and auditory stream segregation through distinct neural mechanisms.

Neural ensembles for music production recruit more language instruments as rhythmic complexity increases

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.

Neural Entrainment in the Theta Band Predicts Groove Perception in Popular Music

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.

Temporal cueing improves auditory perception with no evidence for attentional tradeoffs

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

Brain-wide single-neuron bases of working memory for sounds in humans

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.

Neurophysiology of mismatch negativity generation: a biophysical modeling study

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.

The Effect of Musical Groove on Sensorimotor Network Cortical Dynamics during Active Tapping and Passive Listening

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.

Interval Timing Shows Selective Enhancement Under Psychosocial Stress: A Cortisol-Mediated Dissociation From Spatial Processing

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

The Effect of Previously Encountered Sensory Information on Neural Representations of Predictability: Evidence from Human EEG

This study investigates how auditory contextual memory affects neural representations of predictability in human EEG, showing that predictability is influenced by preceding random tones even after they end.

Task-optimized models of sensory uncertainty reproduce human confidence judgments

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.

Embodied Singing: Dual Role of Interoception in Vocal Expertise and Musical Competence

This study finds that interoceptive ability is positively linked to singing expertise and musical competence, with professional singers showing higher interoceptive accuracy and non-singers with higher interoception performing better in singing accuracy.

Sound source history warps perceived azimuth and elevation

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

Sequential Temporal Anticipation Characterized by Neural Power Modulation and in Recurrent Neural Networks

The paper investigates how the brain and recurrent neural networks anticipate sequential temporal moments by analyzing neural power modulation and its relationship with task performance.

Speech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex

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

Neural tracking of melodic prediction is pre-attentive

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

Task-related activity in auditory cortex enhances sound representation

The paper investigates how task-related activity in auditory cortex affects sound representation by analyzing neuronal dynamics during active and passive listening conditions.

How the Brain Processes Internal and External Sounds: An fMRI Investigation of Auditory Sound Externalization

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

Behavior-relevant periodized neural representation of acoustic but not tactile rhythm in humans

The paper investigates how neural representations of acoustic and tactile rhythms differ, finding that acoustic rhythms elicit low-frequency periodized neural activity linked to motor entrainment, while tactile rhythms show broader frequency responses with less stable tapping.

Temporal recurrence as a general mechanism to explain neural responses in the auditory system

This paper introduces a deep recurrent neural network to model auditory neural responses, showing it outperforms previous methods and reveals longer memory in auditory neurons.

Increased surface area of Heschl's gyrus following music-cued motor training.

This study shows that adding musical cues to motor training increases surface area of Heschl's gyrus in healthy adults, indicating auditory-specific neuroplastic changes.

Joint population coding and temporal coherence link an attended talker's voice and location features in naturalistic multi-talker scenes.

The paper shows that the auditory cortex uses joint population coding and temporal coherence to integrate voice and location features of attended talkers in multi-talker scenes.

Attention modulates the neural geometry of auditory representations

This study shows selective attention reshapes neural geometry in a context- and category-dependent manner linked to behaviour using fMRI and representational geometry analyses.

When Melodies Cue Memories: Electrophysiological Correlates of Autobiographically Salient Music Listening in Older Adults

This study investigates how autobiographically salient music affects memory recall in older adults, finding faster reaction times and distinct neurophysiological responses compared to familiar music.

CORTICAL AUDITORY PROCESSING FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD: ASSOCIATIONS WITH SPEECH UNDERSTANDING

This study examines how cortical responses to speech sounds develop from childhood to early adulthood and links these changes to speech understanding in quiet and noisy environments.