Neuroscience and Music Perception

This study investigates how spatial cues affect selective and distributed attention to speech in multi-speaker environments, finding that spatial cues improve performance but are insufficient for focused attention.

This study examines neural correlations during music listening, finding that disrupted musical structures increase time-domain correlations while beat-related frequencies show peak coherence.

The paper classifies natural sounds using EEG and finds stronger brain responses to speech and music compared to other sounds, suggesting selectivity for higher-order features.

The paper investigates how beat-based and memory-based temporal expectations influence auditory processing, finding similar perceptual effects but distinct neural mechanisms.

This study uses a diffusion model to examine how EEG correlates of attentional orienting relate to sound localization performance in younger and older adults, finding that N2ac amplitudes predict performance metrics but alpha lateralization does not.

The paper reconstructs trial-by-trial subjective time estimates from visual cortex BOLD activity during naturalistic video viewing, showing it reflects subjective experience rather than clock time.

This study investigates how aging, Parkinson’s disease, and dopamine treatment affect auditory regularity processing using EEG, finding age-related declines and dopaminergic therapy reducing sustained neural responses.

This study shows that musical expertise enhances temporal scaling ability, allowing better reproduction of motor patterns at different speeds in a Morse code tapping task.

This study examines the relationship between auditory functional responses and structural brain maturation in infants using EEG and MRI.

The paper shows that predictive uncertainty reduces musical prediction error responses similarly in musicians and non-musicians, suggesting dissociable effects of expertise and stimulus uncertainty.

This study shows that optogenetic stimulation of the VTA enhances thalamic inputs to infragranular layers of the auditory cortex, leading to frequency-specific gain amplification and prolonged sensory processing effects.

The paper maps reciprocal connections between the secondary auditory cortical field (A2) and the lateral amygdala (La) in mice, showing dense innervation and retrograde labeling in La after A2 injection, while other auditory fields show minimal connections.

This study investigates how populations of neurons in the primary auditory cortex encode vocalization identity, intensity, and signal-to-noise ratio under different noise conditions.

This study identifies dissociable neural effects of temporal expectations based on passage of time and contextual probability using MEG data from auditory stimuli.

The paper investigates MMN in macaques to determine if it arises from adaptation or deviance detection, finding both mechanisms contribute with distinct functional profiles.

This study shows that pupil dilation responses to pitch deviants in music depend on contextual uncertainty and unexpectedness, with no effect of music expertise.

The paper measures brain signal complexity during music listening and reward tasks, finding that perceptual tasks show better complexity matching with music complexity than emotional tasks.

This study improves source modeling of auditory steady-state responses by extending minimum-norm imaging, showing better source detection and subcortical activity reconstruction compared to group-ICA.

The paper investigates how the brain represents auditory distance using reverberation cues, finding neural activity in posterior auditory cortex that is independent of intensity and binaural cues.

This study shows that rhesus monkeys can categorize new sounds based on their similarity to learned sounds, indicating their ability to perceive auditory invariance.

The paper investigates why metal music fans enjoy extreme music despite its similarity to threat signals, finding that their appreciation depends on higher-order cognition rather than different low-level threat responses.

This study investigates time error correction mechanisms in paced finger tapping by decoupling parameter and variable changes through combined temporal and spatial perturbations, revealing nonlinear features and suggesting a common correction mechanism.

This paper introduces a fast-learning protocol for temporal tasks in rats, achieving stable performance in a single session instead of weeks of training.

This study identifies shared neural resources between musical rhythm and linguistic syntax using ALE meta-analysis, finding overlapping regions in the left inferior frontal gyrus and supplementary motor area.

The paper identifies auditory grouping cues by analyzing natural sound statistics, revealing both known and novel principles of perceptual grouping.

This study investigates whether beat perception in rhythm is a form of chunking by comparing brain activation patterns during encoding and discrimination of rhythmic and verbal sequences.

The paper investigates how learning complex auditory patterns changes brain connectivity in auditory cortex using fMRI and dynamic causal modelling.

This study shows that music predictability and liking increase pupil dilation and improve motor learning in non-musicians, with liking having a stronger effect on learning than predictability.

The paper demonstrates that the brain extrapolates statistical properties of interrupted background sounds over several seconds, creating illusory textures that are perceived as real.

This study investigates the role of auditory cortex in degraded speech sound discrimination in noise using inactivation and electrophysiology in ferrets, showing cortical contributions and adaptation mechanisms.