The revolution will not be controlled: natural stimuli in speech neuroscience

LS Hamilton, AG Huth - Language, cognition and neuroscience, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Humans have a unique ability to produce and consume rich, complex, and varied language
in order to communicate ideas to one another. Still, outside of natural reading, the most …

Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals

MJ McPherson, SE Dolan, A Durango… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Music perception is plausibly constrained by universal perceptual mechanisms adapted to
natural sounds. Such constraints could arise from our dependence on harmonic frequency …

Deep neural network models reveal interplay of peripheral coding and stimulus statistics in pitch perception

MR Saddler, R Gonzalez, JH McDermott - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Perception is thought to be shaped by the environments for which organisms are optimized.
These influences are difficult to test in biological organisms but may be revealed by machine …

[HTML][HTML] Listening in complex acoustic scenes

AJ King, KMM Walker - Current opinion in physiology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Sound perception in noisy environments is a major challenge for the auditory
system.•Adaptation to sound statistics helps to form noise-tolerant neural representations.• …

Divergence in the functional organization of human and macaque auditory cortex revealed by fMRI responses to harmonic tones

SV Norman-Haignere, N Kanwisher… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We report a difference between humans and macaque monkeys in the functional
organization of cortical regions implicated in pitch perception. Humans but not macaques …

Click-train evoked steady state harmonic response as a novel pharmacodynamic biomarker of cortical oscillatory synchrony

D Gautam, MU Raza, M Miyakoshi, JL Molina… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sensory networks naturally entrain to rhythmic stimuli like a click train delivered at a
particular frequency. Such synchronization is integral to information processing, can be …

Time-dependent discrimination advantages for harmonic sounds suggest efficient coding for memory

MJ McPherson, JH McDermott - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Perceptual systems have finite memory resources and must store incoming signals in
compressed formats. To explore whether representations of a sound's pitch might derive …

Learning normality is enough: a software-based mitigation against inaudible voice attacks

X Li, X Ji, C Yan, C Li, Y Li, Z Zhang, W Xu - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Inaudible voice attacks silently inject malicious voice commands into voice assistants to
manipulate voice-controlled devices such as smart speakers. To alleviate such threats for …

[PDF][PDF] Deep audio priors emerge from harmonic convolutional networks

Z Zhang, Y Wang, C Gan, J Wu… - International …, 2019 - drive.google.com
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) excel in image recognition and generation. Among
many efforts to explain their effectiveness, experiments show that CNNs carry strong …

Musicians show improved speech segregation in competitive, multi-talker cocktail party scenarios

GM Bidelman, J Yoo - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Studies suggest that long-term music experience enhances the brain's ability to segregate
speech from noise. Musicians'“speech-in-noise (SIN) benefit” is based largely on perception …