The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain

E Fedorenko, AA Ivanova, TI Regev - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Language behaviour is complex, but neuroscientific evidence disentangles it into
distinct components supported by dedicated brain areas or networks. In this Review, we …

Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music

M Singh, SA Mehr - Nature reviews psychology, 2023 - nature.com
Humans can find music happy, sad, fearful or spiritual. They can be soothed by it or urged to
dance. Whether these psychological responses reflect cognitive adaptations that evolved …

[HTML][HTML] Music can be reconstructed from human auditory cortex activity using nonlinear decoding models

L Bellier, A Llorens, D Marciano, A Gunduz… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Music is core to human experience, yet the precise neural dynamics underlying music
perception remain unknown. We analyzed a unique intracranial electroencephalography …

[HTML][HTML] A highly selective response to food in human visual cortex revealed by hypothesis-free voxel decomposition

M Khosla, NAR Murty, N Kanwisher - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Prior work has identified cortical regions selectively responsive to specific categories of
visual stimuli. However, this hypothesis-driven work cannot reveal how prominent these …

[HTML][HTML] Many but not all deep neural network audio models capture brain responses and exhibit correspondence between model stages and brain regions

G Tuckute, J Feather, D Boebinger, JH McDermott - Plos Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Models that predict brain responses to stimuli provide one measure of understanding of a
sensory system and have many potential applications in science and engineering. Deep …

Does the visual word form area split in bilingual readers? A millimeter-scale 7-T fMRI study

M Zhan, C Pallier, A Agrawal, S Dehaene, L Cohen - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
In expert readers, a brain region known as the visual word form area (VWFA) is highly
sensitive to written words, exhibiting a posterior-to-anterior gradient of increasing sensitivity …

[HTML][HTML] Subcortical responses to music and speech are alike while cortical responses diverge

T Shan, MS Cappelloni, RK Maddox - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Music and speech are encountered daily and are unique to human beings. Both are
transformed by the auditory pathway from an initial acoustical encoding to higher level …

[HTML][HTML] Spectro-temporal acoustical markers differentiate speech from song across cultures

P Albouy, SA Mehr, RS Hoyer, J Ginzburg, Y Du… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Humans produce two forms of cognitively complex vocalizations: speech and song. It is
debated whether these differ based primarily on culturally specific, learned features, or if …

The human language system, including its inferior frontal component in “Broca's area,” does not support music perception

X Chen, J Affourtit, R Ryskin, TI Regev… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Language and music are two human-unique capacities whose relationship remains
debated. Some have argued for overlap in processing mechanisms, especially for structure …

Encoding of melody in the human auditory cortex

N Sankaran, MK Leonard, F Theunissen… - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Melody is a core component of music in which discrete pitches are serially arranged to
convey emotion and meaning. Perception varies along several pitch-based dimensions:(i) …