Intermediate acoustic-to-semantic representations link behavioral and neural responses to natural sounds

BL Giordano, M Esposito, G Valente… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Recognizing sounds implicates the cerebral transformation of input waveforms into semantic
representations. Although past research identified the superior temporal gyrus (STG) as a …

Learning metrics on spectrotemporal modulations reveals the perception of musical instrument timbre

E Thoret, B Caramiaux, P Depalle… - Nature Human …, 2021 - nature.com
Humans excel at using sounds to make judgements about their immediate environment. In
particular, timbre is an auditory attribute that conveys crucial information about the identity of …

Brain2music: Reconstructing music from human brain activity

TI Denk, Y Takagi, T Matsuyama, A Agostinelli… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The process of reconstructing experiences from human brain activity offers a unique lens
into how the brain interprets and represents the world. In this paper, we introduce a method …

Distinct representations of tonotopy and pitch in human auditory cortex

EJ Allen, J Mesik, KN Kay… - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Frequency-to-place mapping, or tonotopy, is a fundamental organizing principle throughout
the auditory system, from the earliest stages of auditory processing in the cochlea to …

A modality-independent proto-organization of human multisensory areas

F Setti, G Handjaras, D Bottari, A Leo, M Diano… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
The processing of multisensory information is based upon the capacity of brain regions,
such as the superior temporal cortex, to combine information across modalities. However, it …

Early blindness shapes cortical representations of auditory frequency within auditory cortex

E Huber, K Chang, I Alvarez, A Hundle… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Early loss of vision is classically linked to large-scale cross-modal plasticity within occipital
cortex. Much less is known about the effects of early blindness on auditory cortex. Here, we …

Correspondence of categorical and feature‐based representations of music in the human brain

T Nakai, N Koide‐Majima, S Nishimoto - Brain and behavior, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Humans tend to categorize auditory stimuli into discrete classes, such as animal
species, language, musical instrument, and music genre. Of these, music genre is a …

Emotional prosody in congenital amusia: Impaired and spared processes

A Pralus, L Fornoni, R Bouet, M Gomot, A Bhatara… - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
Congenital amusia is a lifelong deficit of music processing, in particular of pitch processing.
Most research investigating this neurodevelopmental disorder has focused on music …

[HTML][HTML] GLMdenoise improves multivariate pattern analysis of fMRI data

I Charest, N Kriegeskorte, KN Kay - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
GLMdenoise is a denoising technique for task-based fMRI. In GLMdenoise, estimates of
spatially correlated noise (which may be physiological, instrumental, motion-related, or …

[HTML][HTML] Voxelwise encoding models of body stimuli reveal a representational gradient from low-level visual features to postural features in occipitotemporal cortex

G Marrazzo, F De Martino, A Lage-Castellanos… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous research on body representation in the brain has focused on category-specific
representation, using fMRI to investigate the response pattern to body stimuli in …