The effects of musical training on the early auditory cortical response to pitch transitions in
music were investigated by use of the change‐N 1 component of auditory event‐related …

This study investigates the effects of music training on brain activity to violations of melodic
expectancies. We recorded behavioral and event-related brain potential (ERP) responses of …

The neural correlates of music perception have received relatively little scientific attention.
The neural activity of listeners without musical training (N= 11), highly trained musicians (N …

Behavioral evidence indicates that musical context facilitates pitch discrimination. In the
present study, we sought to determine whether pitch context and its familiarity might affect …

Middle‐latency auditory evoked potentials, indicating early cortical processing, elicited by
pitch changes and repetitions in pure tones and by complex tones with a missing …

Music represents a complex form of human cognition. To what extent our auditory system is
attuned to music is yet to be clearly understood. Our principal aim was to determine whether …

Examination of the cortical auditory evoked potentials to complex tones changing in pitch
and timbre suggests a useful new method for investigating higher auditory processes, in …

Event‐related potentials were recorded from the scalps of both musicians and nonmusicians
while actively engaging in an auditory discrimination task. Using a classical “oddball” …

The present review summarizes a series of studies determining how complex auditory
information is pre-attentively encoded in the human brain and how these pre-attentive brain …

Using electrophysiology, we have examined two questions in relation to musical training–
namely, whether it enhances sensory encoding of the human voice and whether it improves …