Highlights•Auditory midbrain and thalamus support predictive coding and speech
encoding.•Corticofugal projections are involved, but their specific roles need to be …

A fundamental property of sensory systems is their ability to detect novel stimuli in the
ambient environment. The auditory brain contains neurons that decrease their response to …

The brain predicts regularities in sensory inputs at multiple complexity levels, with neuronal
mechanisms that remain elusive. Here, we monitored auditory cortex activity during the local …

Microsaccades are small, involuntary eye movements that occur during fixation. Their role is
debated with recent hypotheses proposing a contribution to automatic scene sampling …

The neural mechanisms underlying novelty detection are not well understood, especially in
relation to behavior. Here, we present single-unit responses from the primary auditory cortex …

The detection of novel, low probability events in the environment is critical for survival. To
perform this vital task, our brain is continuously building and updating a model of the outside …

Exposure to brief, intense sound can produce profound changes in the auditory system, from
the internal structure of inner hair cells to reduced synaptic connections between the …

Recent theories describe perception as an inferential process based on internal predictive
models that are adjusted by prediction violations (prediction error). Two different …

Regularities in our surroundings lead to predictions about upcoming events. Previous
research has shown that omitted sounds during otherwise regular tone sequences elicit …

Synchronizing movements to music is one of the hallmarks of human culture whose
evolutionary and neurobiological origins remain unknown. The ability to synchronize …