Melody is a core component of music in which discrete pitches are serially arranged to
convey emotion and meaning. Perception varies along several pitch-based dimensions:(i) …

Aesthetic preference is intricately linked to learning and creativity. Previous studies have
largely examined the perception of novelty in terms of pleasantness and the generation of …

Speech comprehension involves detecting words and interpreting their meaning according
to the preceding semantic context. This process is thought to be underpinned by a predictive …

The appreciation of music is a universal trait of humankind. 1, 2, 3 Evidence supporting this
notion includes the ubiquity of music across cultures 4, 5, 6, 7 and the natural predisposition …

The human brain tracks regularities in the environment and extrapolates these to predict
future events. Prior work on music cognition suggests that low‐frequency (1–8 Hz) brain …

Neurophysiology research has demonstrated that it is possible and valuable to investigate
sensory processing in scenarios involving continuous sensory streams, such as speech and …

Any listening task, from sound recognition to sound-based communication, rests on auditory
sensory memory which is known to decline in healthy ageing. However, whether this decline …

Any listening task, from sound recognition to sound-based communication, rests on auditory
memory which is known to decline in healthy ageing. However, how this decline maps onto …

One way to investigate the cortical tracking of continuous auditory stimuli is to use the
stimulus reconstruction approach. However, the cognitive and behavioral factors impacting …

Real-world perception involves the prediction and integration of multiple dynamic objects
and features in parallel, yet most research focuses on single-stream sequences. We present …