Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music

M Singh, SA Mehr - Nature reviews psychology, 2023 - nature.com
Humans can find music happy, sad, fearful or spiritual. They can be soothed by it or urged to
dance. Whether these psychological responses reflect cognitive adaptations that evolved …

[HTML][HTML] Music can be reconstructed from human auditory cortex activity using nonlinear decoding models

L Bellier, A Llorens, D Marciano, A Gunduz… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Music is core to human experience, yet the precise neural dynamics underlying music
perception remain unknown. We analyzed a unique intracranial electroencephalography …

Mapping between sound, brain and behaviour: Four-level framework for understanding rhythm processing in humans and non-human primates

T Lenc, H Merchant, PE Keller… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Humans perceive and spontaneously move to one or several levels of periodic pulses (a
meter, for short) when listening to musical rhythm, even when the sensory input does not …

The Argo: a high channel count recording system for neural recording in vivo

K Sahasrabuddhe, AA Khan, AP Singh… - Journal of neural …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Decoding neural activity has been limited by the lack of tools available to record
from large numbers of neurons across multiple cortical regions simultaneously with high …

Interpreting Rhythm as Parsing: Syntactic‐Processing Operations Predict the Migration of Visual Flashes as Perceived During Listening to Musical Rhythms

G Cecchetti, CA Tomasini, SA Herff… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Music can be interpreted by attributing syntactic relationships to sequential musical events,
and, computationally, such musical interpretation represents an analogous combinatorial …

Eye closure interacts with music to influence vividness and content of directed imagery

SA Herff, S McConnell, JL Ji, JB Prince - Music & Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Goal-directed, intentional mental imagery generation supports a range of daily self-
regulatory activities, such as planning, decision-making, and recreational escapism. Many …

Neural and behavioral evidence for frequency-selective context effects in rhythm processing in humans

T Lenc, PE Keller, M Varlet… - Cerebral Cortex …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
When listening to music, people often perceive and move along with a periodic meter.
However, the dynamics of mapping between meter perception and the acoustic cues to …

Thematic contents of mental imagery are shaped by concurrent task-irrelevant music

L Taruffi, C Ayyildiz, SA Herff - Imagination, Cognition and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Imagination plays a key role in evidence-based, cognitive therapies, and recent research
highlights that music–a perceptual stimulus imbued with affective and social meaning–can …

EEG-based musical neurointerfaces in the correction of stress-induced states

A Fedotchev, S Parin, S Polevaya… - Brain-Computer …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Chronic action of work-related and background stresses causes a disruption of coping
mechanisms and may first lead to functional disorders, and then develop into serious stress …

[HTML][HTML] Hierarchical syntax model of music predicts theta power during music listening

SA Herff, L Bonetti, G Cecchetti, P Vuust… - Neuropsychologia, 2024 - Elsevier
Linguistic research showed that the depth of syntactic embedding is reflected in brain theta
power. Here, we test whether this also extends to non-linguistic stimuli, specifically music …