Neuroscience and Music Perception

Registered Report: Replication and Extension of Nozaradan, Peretz, Missal and Mouraux (2011)

This study replicates Nozaradan et al.'s 2011 findings on neural activity during imagined beat perception, finding smaller effect sizes and no reliable replication of main effects.

CEREBRAL GLUCOSE UTILISATION DURING MUSICAL EMOTIONS: A MULTIMODAL FUNCTIONAL PET/MRI STUDY.

This study uses PET/MRI to examine glucose metabolism and hemodynamic responses during pleasurable music listening, revealing complementary neural activity patterns in brain regions associated with reward and emotion.

Partial learning in human sound localization with asymmetric ears

This study shows that humans can partially relearn elevation sound localization with asymmetric ears using novel binaural cues, but adaptation is limited and variable.

Expected reward value and reward prediction errors reinforce but also interfere with human time perception.

This study shows that expected reward value and reward prediction errors affect human performance in judging 1000ms time intervals but not longer intervals.

Layer 5 and 6b extratelencephalic neurons encode distinct sound features in auditory cortex

The paper identifies distinct response properties of layer 5 and 6b extratelencephalic neurons in mouse auditory cortex to different sound features.

A standardized naturalistic audio stimuli database with unsupervised labeling

The paper introduces a naturalistic audio stimuli database with unsupervised labeling, resulting in 10 semantic categories for diverse experimental use.

Song familiarity relies on evidence accumulation

The paper shows that song familiarity involves evidence accumulation, with neural responses increasing before a familiarity decision is made.

Infant cortical tracking of speech shows emerging spatial release from masking in the first year of life

The paper investigates whether infants can use spatial cues to improve speech perception in noise, finding that both infants and adults show spatial release from masking, though infants' effects are localized.

Mu suppression reveals auditory-motor predictions after short musical training

The paper shows that short musical training induces mu suppression during passive listening to learned melodies in non-musicians, indicating motor predictions in auditory perception.

Motor Resonance of Musical Emotion: A Machine Learning Approach to EEG Decoding During Expressive Music Performance

This paper uses EEG data from a professional pianist to classify emotional categories during musical performance using machine learning, finding that oscillatory brain activity can distinguish between different emotional states.

Pitch selectivity in ferret auditory cortex

The paper investigates how ferret auditory cortex neurons represent pitch cues, finding specialized neurons that encode pitch from harmonic content, temporal periodicity, or both.

Pupil- and gaze dynamics track emotion content in naturalistic speech

This study examines how pupil responses and eye movements track speech features and are influenced by emotional content in natural speech.

Testing differential effects of periodicity and predictability in auditory rhythmic cueing of concurrent speech

This study investigates how periodicity and predictability of rhythmic cues affect speech perception, finding no effect on accuracy but slower reaction times with certain conditions.

Predictive acoustical processing in human cortical layers

This study uses laminar fMRI to investigate predictive auditory processing in human cortical layers, showing hierarchical organization of prediction violations and their association with specific cortical layers.

No evidence of neural feature-specific pre-activation during the prediction of an upcoming stimulus

The paper reanalyzes Demarchi et al.'s data and shows that their findings on pre-activation during prediction can be explained by sequence structure bias, concluding no evidence of anticipatory predictive perception.

Music-selective cortex is sensitive to structure in both pitch and time

The paper shows that music-selective brain regions respond more strongly to music with intact pitch and temporal structure compared to scrambled versions, indicating their sensitivity to both note-level and pattern-level musical structure.

Cortical Representation of Pitch Perception in Mice

The paper investigates how mice perceive pitch using temporal cues and finds that periodotopy in auditory cortex correlates with temporal pitch recognition ability.

Brain Representations of Natural Sound Statistics

This study investigates how the brain represents natural sound statistics using fMRI and synthetic sounds with controlled statistical variations, finding graded responses in auditory cortex and modulatory interactions with the hippocampus.

Influence of attention mechanisms on cerebellar and basal ganglia activity during vocal emotion decoding

This study examines how attention mechanisms influence cerebellar and basal ganglia activity during explicit and implicit vocal emotion decoding tasks using fMRI.

Auditory regularity detection in the ferret

This study shows ferrets can detect transitions to regular auditory patterns, suggesting this ability is not unique to humans.

How the Brain Predicts Timing: Distinct Network Hubs for Predicting and Evaluating Auditory Sensory Events

The paper investigates how brain networks predict and evaluate auditory events by analyzing EEG data during a task with varying predictability, finding distinct connectivity patterns for prediction and evaluation phases.

Hierarchical transformations in sound envelope encoding differ across cortical layers

The paper analyzes how amplitude-modulation encoding varies across cortical layers and hemispheres in nonhuman primates, finding differences in frequency ranges and laminar gradients between primary and tertiary auditory areas.

Sub-anesthetic ketamine administration decreases deviance detection responses at the cellular, populational and mesoscale levels

This study shows that sub-anesthetic ketamine reduces deviant detection responses in auditory cortex and posterior parietal cortex, affecting cellular, population, and mesoscale levels.

The role of inhibitory neurons in deviance sound detection in regular and random statistical contexts.

The paper investigates how inhibitory neurons in the mouse auditory cortex modulate context-dependent deviance responses to sound patterns, revealing a specific role for VIP neurons in enhancing deviance detection in regular contexts.

Optimized feature gains explain and predict successes and failures of human selective listening

This study uses an artificial neural network with optimized feature gains to model human selective listening, showing it matches human performance and predicts attentional effects.

Non-linear relationships between the auditory mismatch responses and the level of inharmonicity of complex sounds

This study investigates how inharmonicity affects mismatch responses in auditory perception, finding non-linear relationships between inharmonicity levels and MMN/P3a amplitudes.

Reverberation exacerbates effects of interruption on auditory spatial selective attention

The paper shows that reverberation increases the negative impact of interruptions on auditory spatial selective attention by worsening recall of syllables following interruptions.

Convolutional neural network models describe the encoding subspace of local circuits in auditory cortex

The paper develops a linear-nonlinear subspace model that captures the encoding properties of convolutional neural networks in auditory cortex, showing they functionally match CNNs and reveal cell-type and layer-specific encoding differences.

Neural signatures of stream segregation: From childhood to adulthood

This study examines the maturation of neural and behavioral correlates of stream segregation and their relationship with speech perception in noise from childhood to adulthood.

Humans can use positive and negative spectrotemporal correlations to detect rising and falling pitch

This study shows humans can detect rising and falling pitch using positive and negative spectrotemporal intensity correlations, analogous to visual motion detection.