Listening to musical melodies is a complex task that engages perceptual and
memoryrelated processes. The processes underlying melody cognition happen …

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 …

Music performances are rich in systematic temporal irregularities called “microtiming”, too
fine-grained to be notated in a musical score but important for musical expression and …

The brain is increasingly viewed as a statistical learning machine, where our sensations and
decisions arise from the intricate interplay between bottom-up sensory signals and …

ABSTRACT The Free Energy Principle in neuroscience explains brain function based on the
minimization of Bayesian surprise. Under mathematical constrains on the underlying …

Emotional prosody perception (EPP) unfolds in time given the intrinsic temporal nature of
auditory stimuli, and has been shown to be modulated by spatial attention. Yet, the influence …

Music perception covers all aspects of psychological and neural processing invoked while
listening to music. In order to make sense of a musical stimulus, the perceptual system must …

Humans efficiently extract relevant information from complex auditory stimuli. Oftentimes, the
interpretation of the signal is ambiguous and musical meaning is derived from the subjective …

We understand the space around us by interacting with the environment. In that interaction,
the hearing system plays a significant role in delivering spatial information to higher circuits …