Is song processing distinct and special in the auditory cortex?

I Harris, EC Niven, A Griffin, SK Scott - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Is the singing voice processed distinctively in the human brain? In this Perspective, we
discuss what might distinguish song processing from speech processing in light of recent …

[HTML][HTML] A neural population selective for song in human auditory cortex

SV Norman-Haignere, J Feather, D Boebinger… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
How is music represented in the brain? While neuroimaging has revealed some spatial
segregation between responses to music versus other sounds, little is known about the …

Contextual feature extraction hierarchies converge in large language models and the brain

G Mischler, YA Li, S Bickel, AD Mehta… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have sparked interest in the parallels between
large language models (LLMs) and human neural processing, particularly in language …

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 …

Parvalbumin neurons enhance temporal coding and reduce cortical noise in complex auditory scenes

JC Nocon, HJ Gritton, NM James, RA Mount… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Cortical representations supporting many cognitive abilities emerge from underlying circuits
comprised of several different cell types. However, cell type-specific contributions to rate and …

Multivariate analysis of brain activity patterns as a tool to understand predictive processes in speech perception

C Ufer, H Blank - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Speech perception is heavily influenced by our expectations about what will be said. In this
review, we discuss the potential of multivariate analysis as a tool to understand the neural …

Covert cortical processing: a diagnosis in search of a definition

MJ Young, M Fecchio, YG Bodien… - Neuroscience of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Historically, clinical evaluation of unresponsive patients following brain injury has relied
principally on serial behavioral examination to search for emerging signs of consciousness …

Neural responses in human superior temporal cortex support coding of voice representations

K Rupp, JL Hect, M Remick, A Ghuman… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The ability to recognize abstract features of voice during auditory perception is an intricate
feat of human audition. For the listener, this occurs in near-automatic fashion to seamlessly …

[HTML][HTML] Intra–and inter–hemispheric network dynamics supporting object recognition and speech production

Y Kitazawa, M Sonoda, K Sakakura, T Mitsuhashi… - Neuroimage, 2023 - Elsevier
We built normative brain atlases that animate millisecond-scale intra-and inter-hemispheric
white matter-level connectivity dynamics supporting object recognition and speech …

Dissociating prosodic from syntactic delta activity during natural speech comprehension

N Chalas, L Meyer, CW Lo, H Park, DS Kluger… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Decoding human speech requires the brain to segment the incoming acoustic signal into
meaningful linguistic units, ranging from syllables and words to phrases. Integrating these …