Neuroscience and Music Perception

This study shows that older adults show less distinct neural activation patterns in auditory cortex and lower GABA levels, with GABA levels predicting neural distinctiveness in older adults.

The paper shows that auditory expertise modulates neural categorization mechanisms, with musicians using primary auditory cortex and nonmusicians relying on higher-order linguistic regions.

The paper shows auditory contrast gain control occurs in subcortical and cortical auditory systems and predicts perceptual adaptation in humans.

The paper shows that neural synchronization to perceived musical meter persists longer when rhythms transition from regular to ambiguous, demonstrating hysteresis and context-dependent stability in perception.

The paper shows that neurons in primary auditory cortex represent sound source locations independently of spatial cues and supports a labelled line model over a two-channel model for spatial perception.

The paper investigates brain mechanisms for evaluating self-generated timing behavior, supporting the read-out hypothesis over error-detection.

The paper compares auditory response properties of neurons in the bat frontal auditory field and auditory cortex, finding sparser and less precise spiking in the frontal area.

The paper investigates how prediction error responses change in musical contexts with varying pitch uncertainty, finding reduced mismatch negativity in high-uncertainty conditions.

This study uses EEG to show that absolute pitch musicians have higher neural representational similarity during late pitch processing compared to relative pitch musicians.

The paper examines how environmental sound context and internal regulation influence neural and cardiovascular responses to unattended pitch changes.

This study shows that EEG activity during a temporal categorisation task encodes both temporal and decisional information, with decisional aspects better explaining activity typically linked to timing.

This study uses machine learning to classify frequency following responses (FFRs) from speech and music stimuli, showing high accuracy and similar patterns to human perception.

The paper shows that the human brain normalizes speech sounds by rescaling acoustic-phonetic representations based on speaker context, revealing speaker-normalized speech sound representations in parabelt auditory cortex.

This study shows that 6 months of piano training improves speech-in-noise understanding in older adults, associated with changes in brain responses related to speech processing and attention.

The paper compares whole-brain and regions-of-variance approaches to examine how personality traits relate to neural responses to emotional music.

The paper investigates music perception deficits in acquired prosopagnosia and identifies an anterior temporal syndrome involving face, voice, and music processing.

This study investigates the neural correlates of musical excitement during Drops, finding brain activity patterns linked to expectancy and contrastive valence.

This study shows that cascaded processing of amplitude modulation in a deep neural network optimized for natural sound recognition mirrors neural representations in the auditory system.

This paper introduces a neuronal model for beat generation that learns isochronous rhythms and synchronizes with external stimuli across music-relevant frequencies.

The paper introduces a dynamic network model to explain temporal receptive fields in auditory cortex neurons, showing it can match performance of models with longer time delays.

This study examines neural connectivity differences between absolute pitch and autistic traits in musicians, finding shared and distinct features in resting-state EEG data.

The paper shows that expressive changes in others' voices elicit faster and stronger neural responses than similar changes in self-produced voices, suggesting greater attention to socially relevant signals.

The paper shows that mouse auditory cortex, particularly A2, can track fine frequency modulations through offset spiking, which becomes plastic with experience in distinguishing natural sound categories.

This study compares neural activity in AP and RP musicians during pitch processing tasks, finding differences in brain regions associated with memory and auditory processing.

This study identifies that the amplitude of periodic neural state trajectories in primate motor cortex encodes the tempo of rhythmic tapping, showing resilience to neuron count and accounting for interval timing properties.

The paper identifies duration-sensitive neural populations in human medial premotor cortex that form topographical maps of time, termed chronomaps.

The paper compares auditory oddball responses in three brain regions of macaques to better understand the neural basis of the mismatch negativity.

The paper identifies differences in origin and termination patterns between layer 5 and layer 6 corticocollicular neurons in the mouse auditory system.

This study investigates how auditory and language mechanisms contribute to noise-robust speech envelope tracking in humans by comparing native and foreign language listeners using EEG.

This study investigates how prior precision affects prediction error minimization in human auditory cortex using MEG, finding distinct cortical dynamics in low and high precision contexts.