Neuroscience and Music Perception

The paper investigates the neural mechanisms linking speech-in-noise perception difficulties to fundamental auditory grouping using fMRI, finding shared cortical processes in early auditory areas.

The paper investigates how the auditory system weights binaural cues across frequency bands in broadband stimuli and finds that spectral weights vary with frequency and temporal context.

This study examines how healthy aging affects change detection in acoustic scenes, finding that older adults show preserved sensitivity to regular temporal structures but reduced sensitivity to random changes.

This study demonstrates that binaural integration improves vertical sound source localization by leveraging sound type-specific prior information.

The paper uses mutual information analysis on MEG data to show older listeners have exaggerated cortical speech representation, linked to poorer speech intelligibility and inhibitory control.

The paper investigates how arousal affects neural coding of natural sounds in auditory cortex by analyzing changes in response magnitude and noise correlations.

The paper models auditory streaming as an evidence accumulation process with saturation, explaining buildup and bistability in perceptual alternations.

This study examines how voice characteristics affect neural tracking of fundamental frequency in speech using EEG, finding that lower and steadier f0 produces stronger responses.

This study compares psychophysiological responses to music when participants focus on perceived emotion in the music versus felt emotion, finding stronger responses when attention is on perceived emotion.

This study examines high gamma cortical responses to continuous speech in younger and older adults using MEG, finding no age-related differences in high gamma responses despite known differences in subcortical processing.

The paper investigates the relationship between auditory working memory precision for frequency and speech-in-noise thresholds, finding a significant correlation and a link to musical training.

This study investigates whether musical rhythm shares acoustic statistical properties with child-directed speech by analyzing amplitude modulation (AM) timescales across Western genres.

The paper investigates altered functional connectivity in congenital amusia during speech perception, finding reduced connectivity between language and pitch-related brain regions.

This study investigates automatic processing of emotional and neutral sounds in congenital amusia using EEG, finding preserved MMN for emotional deviants but reduced P3a for salient deviants and early deficits in processing subtle acoustic changes.

The paper investigates how autistic and typically developing individuals process familiar music using fMRI, finding differences in brain network activity during familiar music listening.

This study investigates differences in resting-state EEG brain networks between absolute pitch musicians and non-AP musicians using ROI-based and whole-brain analyses.

This study investigates how the NMDA-R antagonist MK-801 affects neuronal mismatch responses in the rat auditory thalamocortical pathway, finding it enhances repetition suppression in thalamus and prediction error in cortex.

This study detects auditory steady-state responses in human fetuses using fetal magnetoencephalography, showing significant phase coherence at 27 Hz but not 42 Hz.

The paper shows that musicianship can be predicted from brain structure MRI data using machine learning, achieving significant classification accuracy.

The paper examines how modifying a melody in real music affects brain connectivity between specific regions using MEG.

This study shows that aging in the human auditory cortex leads to broader tuning to temporal modulation rates, particularly in primary auditory cortex and planum temporale.

The paper shows that human ear muscle activity reflects auditory attention direction, revealing a vestigial pinna-orienting system still active in the brain.

The paper compares neuronal frequency preference and sound-level sensitivity in the primary auditory cortex of C57BL/6 and CBAxC57 F1 mice using in vivo 2-photon imaging.

This study investigates how callosal projections modulate auditory cortex activity in mice, finding that they enhance fast spiking cell activity and regulate tone response fidelity through PV cell inhibition.

The paper shows that high-gamma ECoG activity in the prefrontal cortex tracks musical rhythm periodicity during perception and imagination.

The paper investigates brain dynamics during musical pattern recognition using MEG, finding increased activity and connectivity in a widespread network over time.

The paper investigates how sound-level statistics influence neural responses and perceptual sensitivity using EEG and behavioral experiments, finding that neural adaptation and prediction-error processing both play roles.

The paper identifies target-specific and masker-specific neurons in the auditory system that operate under noise conditions, showing a distributed network for auditory perception.

This study investigates the role of the mediodorsal thalamus in timing behavior using an operant temporal production task in mice, finding that its inactivation impairs timing accuracy and precision.