Neuroscience and Music Perception

The paper demonstrates that double training removes interval specificity in temporal interval discrimination, revealing an interval-invariant subsecond temporal structure in the brain.

The paper shows that temporal envelope steepness is mapped orthogonally to the tonotopic axis in mouse auditory cortex, forming a two-dimensional map for sound processing.

This study shows that attention to a target voice enhances its representation in ferret auditory cortex and that a computational model replicates this effect, supporting the temporal coherence theory of speech segregation.

This study shows that musical training improves auditory stream segregation through enhanced auditory working memory, confirmed in two independent samples.

The paper investigates neural mechanisms for voice perception in noise by analyzing brain activity under varying noise conditions, finding key networks involved in voice comprehension.

The paper decodes neural representations of perceived and imagined melodies from MEG data, revealing distinct brain networks for sensory processing and abstract melody representation.

This study investigates how beat salience in music affects gait during rhythmic auditory stimulation, finding that beat salience improves period-matching but not phase-matching in low-groove music.

This paper extends the bounded accumulation model to temporal generalization tasks, showing it outperforms existing models and reveals modality and learning effects.

The paper investigates how subsemitone changes in a non-standard trichord affect perceived consonance, finding that certain modifications reduce consonance more than others, contradicting acoustic models.

The paper extends auditory perceptual bistability to tri-stability through experiments and modeling, showing a neural model can capture tri-stable perception with minimal adjustments.

The paper uses a large dataset to show that music-evoked chills are better predicted by high-level expectation-based surprise than by low-level acoustic features.

The paper investigates auditory memory for complex sounds by analyzing neural activity in different auditory cortex subregions in mice, finding memory signatures and synchronized activity in input layers.

This study uses fMRI to show that primary and non-primary auditory cortex process speech in noisy environments differently, with one tracking both relevant and non-relevant speech and the other selectively representing relevant speech.

This study investigates how rTMS affects time perception by targeting different parietal regions, finding that rIPL stimulation reduces subjective time expansion.

This study shows rats synchronize their licking behavior predictively to metronome beats, outperforming reactive and random models.

The paper tracks neural encoding of speech-sound features in infants from birth to 12 months, showing rapid maturation of temporal fine structure encoding within the first six months.

The paper investigates how human auditory cortex integrates sound structures over time versus structure duration, finding that integration is primarily time-yoked.

The paper uses RSA to analyze neural representations of beat and rhythm in motor and association regions during fMRI, finding beat-sensitivity in the putamen, SMA, IFG, and inferior parietal cortex.

This study shows that musicianship enhances cortical processing of musical chords, particularly under passive conditions, while brainstem responses show no group differences.

The paper shows that category learning enhances attentional gain to diagnostic perceptual dimensions in auditory cortex, as evidenced by neural prioritization of relevant frequency bands during task performance.

The paper shows that language experience influences how the brain predicts rhythmic sounds using long-term priors, as evidenced by differences in mismatch negativity responses to sound omissions.

The paper investigates how motivational state affects cognitive investment during demanding listening by analyzing pupil size and MEG data in an auditory gap-detection task.

This study shows that curriculum learning improves and accelerates learning in mice by enhancing neuronal discriminability through sequential task complexity.

The paper identifies omission-responsive neurons in rat auditory cortex that encode negative prediction error and probability, showing an asymmetry in error signaling.

This study investigates perceptual learning mechanisms in newborns using neurocomputational methods, finding that consonant sounds elicit distinct neural responses compared to dissonant sounds.

This study identifies white matter structural correlates of predictive tapping synchronization in humans, linking fiber density and bundle properties to rhythmic entrainment abilities.

This study investigates whether musical training enhances early auditory neural responses and finds no evidence of such enhancement in a large-scale, multi-site study.

This study examines how engaging with candombe music activates brain pathways linked to cognitive function and emotional regulation, promoting mental well-being and social bonding.

This study uses generative models to explain auditory perception, showing they can account for illusions and real-world sounds with human-like organization.

The paper decodes brain activity differences caused by variations in acoustic environments using fMRI and identifies the posterior auditory cortex as processing direct-to-reverberant energy ratio for spatial perception.