Neuroscience and Music Perception

Robust spatial hearing beyond primary interaural cues in humans over deep neural networks

This study shows humans can localize sounds without primary interaural cues, unlike deep neural networks, highlighting differences in auditory processing strategies.

Musical complexity governs a tradeoff between reliability and dimensionality in the neural code

The paper analyzes neural responses to complex music, finding a tradeoff between reliability and dimensionality in the neural code as musical complexity increases.

A Rapid Anterior Auditory Processing Stream Through the Insulo-Parietal Auditory Field in the Rat

The paper identifies a rapid auditory processing pathway in the insulo-parietal field of rats, showing shorter latencies and lower frequency tuning compared to primary auditory cortex.

Revealing rhythm categorization in human brain activity

This study investigates how the brain categorizes musical rhythms using EEG, showing automatic categorical representation despite early auditory processing not reflecting these categories.

Neural correlates of emotional responses to self-selected music: evidence from multivariate pattern analysis

The paper uses multivariate pattern analysis to decode emotion categories from brain activity during self-selected music listening, revealing consistent neural correlates across auditory, motor, and interoceptive regions.

Neural affect decoding from minimal spectrotemporal glimpses of voice signals

The paper investigates how affect can be decoded from voice signals under noise masking using psychoacoustic testing and neuroimaging, finding that specific spectrotemporal features are critical for accurate decoding.

Exploring Auditory Category Distinctions in Perception and Imagery

The paper investigates auditory imagery by comparing neural responses to speech and environmental sounds during perception and imagination, finding categorical processing similarities.

Perceptual clustering in auditory streaming

This paper introduces a Bayesian inference model for perceptual clustering in auditory streaming, demonstrating its ability to explain experimental data and make novel predictions.

Recursive Entropic Time: A Neural Framework forthe Informational Construction of SubjectiveDuration

This paper introduces the Recursive Entropic Time framework to explain subjective time as an emergent neural construct, supported by EEG-fMRI and EEG data analyses showing region-specific temporal processing.

Simultaneous cortical tracking of competing speech streams during attention switching

This study uses EEG to track neural responses to competing speech streams during attention switches, revealing asymmetric engagement and disengagement processes and lexical context resets.

Neural entrainment predicts the anticipatory P300 component during musical meter perception: An EEG study using dual-meter sound stimuli

This study investigates how neural entrainment relates to anticipatory processing of musical meter using EEG and dual-meter sound stimuli, finding that entrainment to attended features predicts P300 responses to metrical violations.

Linear modeling of brain activity during selectiveattention to continuous speech: the critical role of the N1 effect in event-related potentials to acoustic edges

The paper investigates how speech-evoked ERPs, particularly the N1 effect, contribute to linear modeling of brain activity during selective attention to speech, showing their critical role in improving signal-to-noise ratio and speech tracking.

Attention, Musicality, and Familiarity Shape Cortical Speech Tracking at the Musical Cocktail Party

The paper investigates how attention, musicality, and familiarity affect neural speech tracking in noisy environments with background music.

Noncanonical Short-Latency Auditory Pathway Directly Activates Deep Cortical Layers

The paper identifies noncanonical auditory pathways in mice that bypass primary auditory cortex and directly activate secondary auditory cortex layers, enabling parallel sensory processing.

Primary and secondary auditory cortex connectivity with brain regions involved in cognitive and emotional processing: in mouse and human

This study maps auditory cortex connections in mice and humans, showing its integration with cognitive and emotional brain regions, and links these connections to potential roles in multisensory integration and cognitive functions.

Cardiac-locked auditory stimulation modulates pupil and neural dynamics

This study examines how cardiac-locked auditory stimulation affects pupil and neural dynamics, finding that synchronous cardio-auditory sequences lead to pupil adaptation and increased EEG activity.

Testing Sensorimotor Timing in a Living Laboratory: Behavioral Signatures of a Neural Oscillator

This study replicates and extends laboratory findings on rhythmic timing in a naturalistic museum setting, showing age-related changes in timing accuracy and drift toward preferred tempo.

Maternal singing synchronizes the preterm infants' brain

This study examines how preterm infants perceive maternal singing using EEG, finding that maternal singing enhances brain synchrony compared to other auditory stimuli.

A mammalian inferior colliculus model for sound source separation using interaural time differences

The paper presents a computational model of the inferior colliculus that optimizes sound source separation using interaural time differences by adjusting synaptic delays and strengths.

Movement path as an ethological lens into interval timing

This study examines interval timing in rats by analyzing movement trajectories in fixed and variable time schedules, finding temporally patterned movement only in the fixed time condition.

Primary auditory thalamus relays directly to cortical layer 1 interneurons

The paper identifies a direct pathway from the primary auditory thalamus to cortical layer 1 interneurons in mice, showing these interneurons receive strong thalamic inputs comparable to excitatory neurons.

Statistical learning dynamically shapes auditory perception

The paper investigates how statistical learning of probability distributions affects auditory perception and decision-making, finding that it dynamically shapes sensitivity and introduces perceptual biases.

Arousal-Driven Serial Dependence: The role of Internal States in Temporal Judgments

This study shows that emotional arousal affects time perception by enhancing serial dependence, with high-arousal states amplifying temporal integration between trials.

Preschool musicality is associated with school-age communication abilities through genes related to rhythmicity

This study links preschool musicality to school-age communication abilities through genetic factors related to rhythmicity using polygenic scores and structural equation modeling.

Neural responses underlying ITD discrimination as a function of sensory reliability in the barn owl

The paper examines how neural responses and behavioral ITD discrimination thresholds change with sensory reliability in barn owls, finding that neuronal discriminability predicts behavioral performance.

Flexible tapping synchronization in macaques: dynamic switching of timing strategies within rhythmic sequences

This study trains macaques in a visual tapping task and identifies two timing strategies used for synchronization across tempos.

Fifty Years After: The N1 Effect Travels Down to the Brainstem

The paper revisits an old study on auditory selective attention's effect on brainstem potentials using modern stimuli and analysis, finding increased spectrotemporal consistency in subcortical structures.

Frequency tagging evidence supports perceptual separation of rapid stimuli in human fetuses

This study uses frequency tagging in fetal MEG to show that the fetal cortex generates separate neural responses to rapid auditory stimuli, suggesting perceptual separation rather than fusion.

Auditory cortical coding of spectrotemporal modulations is sufficient to support perceptual categorization of speech and music

A Cortico-Striatal Circuit for Sound-Triggered Prediction of Reward Timing

This study identifies an auditory cortical-striatal circuit that enables sound-triggered prediction of reward timing in mice.