Studies in the neuroscience of music gained momentum in the 1990s as an integrated part
of the well-controlled experimental research tradition. However, during the past two …

The last decades have seen a proliferation of music and brain studies, with a major focus on
plastic changes as the outcome of continuous and prolonged engagement with music …

Information encoding has received a wide neuroscientific attention, but the underlying rapid
spatiotemporal brain dynamics remain largely unknown. Here, we investigated the rapid …

With smartphone-based mobile electroencephalography (EEG), we can investigate sound
perception beyond the lab. To understand sound perception in the real world, we need to …

Underwater wireless communications (UWC), based on acoustic waves, radio frequency
waves, and optical waves, are currently deployed using underwater communications …

Predicting events in the ever-changing environment is a fundamental survival function
intrinsic to the physiology of sensory systems, whose efficiency varies among the population …

Predictive models in the brain rely on the continuous extraction of regularities from the
environment. These models are thought to be updated by novel information, as reflected in …

Atonal music is often characterized by low predictability stemming from the absence of tonal
or metrical hierarchies. In contrast, Western tonal music exhibits intrinsic predictability due to …

Mismatch negativity (MMN) studies were initiated as part of a well-controlled experimental
research tradition with the aim to identify some key principles of auditory processing and …

Definitions of syncopation share two characteristics: the presence of a meter or analogous
hierarchical rhythmic structure and a displacement or contradiction of that structure. These …