Neuroscience and Music Perception

This study shows that barn owl midbrain neurons adapt their frequency tuning during development based on the reliability of interaural time difference cues, which is influenced by the facial ruff.

The paper investigates whether selective attention enhances target speech tracking or suppresses distractor speech, finding that target speech is enhanced but distractors are not suppressed below neutral baseline.

The paper shows that time perception in humans is governed by a single mechanism that adapts to both local and global environmental statistics.

The paper shows that learning temporally regular features improves auditory object discrimination compared to conventional methods.

The paper demonstrates that sound elevation is represented in a population-rate code in human auditory cortex using electroencephalography, confirming previous fMRI findings.

The paper shows humans use compressed network models to represent auditory sequences, pruning and completing relationships to efficiently capture both local and high-order structures.

The paper explains why listeners tolerate positive mistuning more than negative mistuning in an octave pair by proposing a neural circuit with mismatched time constants.

This study investigates whether neural phase locking to speech amplitude envelopes reflects oscillatory entrainment or evoked responses to acoustic edges, finding support for the latter.

This study investigates repetition plasticity in mouse primary auditory cortex over long timescales, finding both suppression and enhancement in neural responses to repeated pure-tone frequencies.

This study shows that optimizing a neural network for natural sound recognition leads to human-like amplitude modulation sensitivity, suggesting evolutionary adaptation in auditory processing.

The paper investigates how perceptual learning of random acoustic patterns is influenced by temporal regularity and attention, showing memory-related ERP effects and performance improvements with attention.

The paper shows that neuronal sensitivity to acoustic context in auditory cortex of awake mice is stable over time and comparable to spectrotemporal tuning stability.

The paper investigates the directed information flow in the brain during 40 Hz auditory steady-state responses, revealing right hemispheric dominance and bidirectional interactions between specific cortical regions.

The paper examines individual neurophysiological variability in rhythm processing using single-trial M/EEG data, revealing inter- and intra-participant differences in temporal prediction and beat grouping patterns.

The paper investigates how auditory cortex activity differs between hemispheres during tasks involving attention and masking, finding left AC supports awareness while right AC is more automatic.

This study uses MEG to compare predictive brain function in younger and older children during an auditory oddball task, finding larger mismatch field amplitudes in older children, particularly in the right inferior frontal gyrus.

This study investigates how familiar melodies affect alpha power, finding suppression in specific brain regions similar to language processing.

This study shows that motion kinematics, not naturalness, determines rhythm synchronization when tapping to visual metronomes, with accelerating motion leading to more precise tapping.

This study uses EEG to examine age-related differences in short-term recognition of musical sequences, finding reduced neural responses in older adults despite no behavioral differences.

The paper compares individual variation in syntax and meter processing in language and music, finding domain-specific differences in how metrical regularity affects syntactic integration.

This paper uses biophysical modeling to show that the auditory awareness negativity (AAN) arises from specific cortical layers and cell types in the auditory cortex.

This study investigates how timbre affects relative pitch judgments and finds that pitch accuracy is reduced when sounds differ in timbre, even when judgments are based on fundamental frequency.

The paper shows that brain activity along the temporoparietal axis reflects transitions between music-evoked emotions and is sensitive to emotional context.

This study investigates whether the language system, including Broca's area, supports music perception through fMRI and aphasia patient analyses, finding no engagement of language regions in music processing.

This paper compares linear and mutual information analyses of EEG data to study neural envelope tracking, finding that mutual information, particularly using Gaussian copula, better captures nonlinear speech processing.

The paper investigates how bandwidth scaling in auditory filters improves the neural coding of natural sounds by whitening representations across frequency, time, and modulation dimensions.

This study investigates how neural activity in the medial premotor cortex of macaques encodes time during interval categorization and rhythmic timing tasks, revealing distinct encoding strategies and neural clocks.

The paper proposes a Power Series Template (PoST) model to explain pitch perception by generating harmonic templates through reinforcement learning and mode coupling.

This study uses modified autoencoders to infer latent mechanisms of binaural detection, finding artificial neurons that mimic cross-correlation dynamics similar to animal models.

This study examines sound duration processing in infants using EEG source reconstruction, finding developmental changes in ERP waveforms and their underlying neural generators between four and nine months.