Origins of music in credible signaling

SA Mehr, MM Krasnow, GA Bryant… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

Multiscale temporal integration organizes hierarchical computation in human auditory cortex

SV Norman-Haignere, LK Long, O Devinsky… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
To derive meaning from sound, the brain must integrate information across many timescales.
What computations underlie multiscale integration in human auditory cortex? Evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Envelope reconstruction of speech and music highlights stronger tracking of speech at low frequencies

NJ Zuk, JW Murphy, RB Reilly… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The human brain tracks amplitude fluctuations of both speech and music, which reflects
acoustic processing in addition to the encoding of higher-order features and one's cognitive …

Music-selective neural populations arise without musical training

D Boebinger, SV Norman-Haignere… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Recent work has shown that human auditory cortex contains neural populations anterior and
posterior to primary auditory cortex that respond selectively to music. However, it is unknown …

[HTML][HTML] EEG-based classification of natural sounds reveals specialized responses to speech and music

NJ Zuk, ES Teoh, EC Lalor - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Humans can easily distinguish many sounds in the environment, but speech and music are
uniquely important. Previous studies, mostly using fMRI, have identified separate regions of …

[HTML][HTML] Speech and music recruit frequency-specific distributed and overlapping cortical networks

N Te Rietmolen, MR Mercier, A Trébuchon, B Morillon… - ELife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
To what extent does speech and music processing rely on domain-specific and domain-
general neural networks? Using whole-brain intracranial EEG recordings in 18 epilepsy …

The effect of familiarity on neural representations of music and language

A Sternin, LM McGarry, AM Owen… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
We investigated how familiarity alters music and language processing in the brain. We used
fMRI to measure brain responses before and after participants were familiarized with novel …

Multiscale integration organizes hierarchical computation in human auditory cortex

SV Norman-Haignere, LK Long, O Devinsky, W Doyle… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
To derive meaning from sound, the brain must integrate information across tens (eg
phonemes) to hundreds (eg words) of milliseconds, but the neural computations that enable …

Cortical music selectivity does not require musical training

D Boebinger, S Norman-Haignere, J McDermott… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Human auditory cortex contains neural populations that respond strongly to a wide variety of
music sounds, but much less strongly to sounds with similar acoustic properties or to other …

Detection of pitch errors in well-known songs

MW Weiss, SE Trehub - Psychology of Music, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We examined pitch-error detection in well-known songs sung with or without meaningful
lyrics. In Experiment 1, adults heard the initial phrase of familiar songs sung with lyrics or …