In the present article, the basic research using the mismatch negativity (MMN) and
analogous results obtained by using the magnetoencephalography (MEG) and other brain …

Some fifty years after the first physiological studies of auditory attention, the field is now
ripening, with exciting recent insights into the psychophysics, psychology, and neural basis …

Predictive processing of information is essential for goal-directed behavior. We offer an
account of auditory perception suggesting that representations of predictable patterns, or …

The question of whether the mismatch negativity (MMN) is modulated by attention has been
debated for over a decade. Although the MMN is widely regarded as reflecting a preattentive …

In music, multiple musical objects often overlap in time. Western polyphonic music contains
multiple simultaneous melodic lines (referred to as “voices”) of equal importance. Previous …

In this article, we present a new view on the nature of cognitive processes suggesting that
there is a common core, viz., automatic sensory–cognitive processes that form the basis for …

Many sound sources emit signals in a predictable manner. The idea that predictability can
be exploited to support the segregation of one source's signal emissions from the …

Acoustic filter properties of A1 neurons can dynamically adapt to stimulus statistics, classical
conditioning, instrumental learning and the changing auditory attentional focus. We have …

Communication by sounds requires that the communication channels (ie speech/speakers
and other sound sources) had been established. This allows to separate concurrently active …

Sounds provide us with useful information about our environment which complements that
provided by other senses, but also poses specific processing problems. How does the …