An fMRI experiment was performed to identify the main stages of melody processing in the
auditory pathway. Spectrally matched sounds that produce no pitch, fixed pitch, or melody …

Abstract Objects are the building blocks of experience, but what do we mean by an object?
Increasingly, neuroscientists refer to 'auditory objects', yet it is not clear what properties these …

Abstract Changes in the delay (phase) and amplitude of sound at the ears are cues for the
analysis of sound movement. The detection of these cues depends on the convergence of the …

It is increasingly recognized that the human planum temporale is not a dedicated language
processor, but is in fact engaged in the analysis of many types of complex sound. We …

Musicians recognize pitch as having two dimensions. On the keyboard, these are illustrated
by the octave and the cycle of notes within the octave. In perception, these dimensions are …

Research on interval timing strongly implicates the cerebellum and the basal ganglia as
part of the timing network of the brain. Here we tested the hypothesis that the brain uses …

The study of the brain bases for normal musical listening has advanced greatly in the last 30
years. The evidence from basic and clinical neuroscience suggests that listening to music …

Humans share with other animals an ability to measure the passage of physical time and
subjectively experience a sense of time passing. Subjective time has hallmark qualities, akin to …

Congenital amusia (or tone deafness) is a lifelong disorder characterized by impairments in
the perception and production of music. A previous voxel-based morphometry (VBM) study …

Background Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a complex disorder characterised by a broad
range of clinical manifestations, differential pathological signatures, and genetic variability. …