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Recent papers

June-July 2012

Baillet, S., Friston, K., and Oostenveld, R. (2011). Academic Software Applications for Electromagnetic Brain Mapping Using MEG and EEG. Comput Intell Neurosci 2011.

Ding, N., and Simon, J. Z. (2012). Emergence of neural encoding of auditory objects while listening to competing speakers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Klampfl, S., David, S. V., Yin, P., Shamma, S. A., and Maass, W. (2012). A quantitative analysis of information about past and present stimuli encoded by spikes of A1 neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology.

Matthews, W. J., and Grondin, S. (2012). On the replication of Kristofferson’s (1980) quantal timing for duration discrimination: some learning but no quanta and not much of a Weber constant. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Niwa, M., Johnson, J. S., O’Connor, K. N., and Sutter, M. L. (2012). Active engagement improves primary auditory cortical neurons’ ability to discriminate temporal modulation. J. Neurosci. 32, 9323-9334.

Rohenkohl, G., Cravo, A. M., Wyart, V., and Nobre, A. C. (2012). Temporal expectation improves the quality of sensory information. J. Neurosci. 32, 8424-8428.

Scott, B. H., Mishkin, M., and Yin, P. (2012). Monkeys have a limited form of short-term memory in audition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Sutherland, M. E., Zatorre, R. J., Watkins, K. E., Hervé, P.-Y., Leonard, G., Pike, B. G., Witton, C., and Paus, T. (2012). Anatomical correlates of dynamic auditory processing: relationship to literacy during early adolescence. Neuroimage 60, 1287-1295.

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Recent papers

May 2012:

Albrecht, U. (2012). Timing to Perfection: The Biology of Central and Peripheral Circadian Clocks. Neuron 74, 246-260. Available at: [Accessed May 7, 2012].

Albright, T. D. (2012). On the Perception of Probable Things: Neural Substrates of Associative Memory, Imagery, and Perception. Neuron 74, 227-245. Available at: [Accessed May 7, 2012].

Altenmüller, E., Demorest, S. M., Fujioka, T., Halpern, A. R., Hannon, E. E., Loui, P., Majno, M., Oechslin, M. S., Osborne, N., Overy, K., et al. (2012). Introduction to The Neurosciences and Music IV: Learning and Memory. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1252, 1-16. Available at: [Accessed May 7, 2012].

Cope, T. E., Grube, M., and Griffiths, T. D. (2012). Temporal predictions based on a gradual change in tempo. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 131, 4013. Available at: [Accessed May 12, 2012].

Friston, K. Ten ironic rules for non-statistical reviewers. NeuroImage. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811912003990 [Accessed May 9, 2012].

Giraud, A.-L., and Poeppel, D. (2012). Cortical oscillations and speech processing: emerging computational principles and operations. Nat. Neurosci. 15, 511-517. Available at: [Accessed May 9, 2012].

Grahn, J. A., and Rowe, J. B. (2012). Finding and Feeling the Musical Beat: Striatal Dissociations between Detection and Prediction of Regularity. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y.: 1991). Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22499797 [Accessed May 7, 2012].

Herholz, S. C., Halpern, A. R., and Zatorre, R. J. (2012). Neuronal Correlates of Perception, Imagery, and Memory for Familiar Tunes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24, 1382-1397. Available at: [Accessed May 7, 2012].

Hipp, J. F., Hawellek, D. J., Corbetta, M., Siegel, M., and Engel, A. K. (2012). Large-scale cortical correlation structure of spontaneous oscillatory activity. Nature Neuroscience. Available at: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.3101.html [Accessed May 7, 2012].

Jäncke, L., Langer, N., and Hänggi, J. (2012). Diminished Whole-brain but Enhanced Peri-sylvian Connectivity in Absolute Pitch Musicians. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24, 1447-1461. Available at: [Accessed May 7, 2012].

Kravitz, A. V., Tye, L. D., and Kreitzer, A. C. (2012). Distinct roles for direct and indirect pathway striatal neurons in reinforcement. Nature Neuroscience. Available at: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.3100.html [Accessed May 7, 2012].

Lewis, J. W., and Talkington, W. J. (2012). Auditory object salience: human cortical processing of non-biological action sounds and their acoustic signal attributes. Front. Syst. Neurosci 6, 27. Available at: [Accessed May 9, 2012].

McAuley, J. D., Henry, M. J., and Tkach, J. (2012). Tempo mediates the involvement of motor areas in beat perception. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1252, 77-84. Available at: [Accessed May 9, 2012].

McGettigan, C., and Scott, S. K. (2012). Cortical asymmetries in speech perception: what’s wrong, what’s right and what’s left? Trends Cogn. Sci. (Regul. Ed.) 16, 269-276. Available at: [Accessed May 9, 2012].

Mesgarani, N., and Chang, E. F. (2012). Selective cortical representation of attended speaker in multi-talker speech perception. Nature. Available at: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11020.html [Accessed May 7, 2012].

Romei, V., Gross, J., and Thut, G. (2012). Sounds Reset Rhythms of Visual Cortex and Corresponding Human Visual Perception. Current Biology 22, 807-813. Available at: [Accessed May 7, 2012].

Zatorre, R. J. (2012). Beyond auditory cortex: working with musical thoughts. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1252, 222-228. Available at: [Accessed May 7, 2012].

Buzsáki, G., and Wang, X.-J. (2012). Mechanisms of Gamma Oscillations. Annual Review of Neuroscience. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22443509 [Accessed May 16, 2012].

Formisano, E., and Kriegeskorte, N. (2012). Seeing patterns through the hemodynamic veil - The future of pattern-information fMRI. NeuroImage. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22421051 [Accessed May 18, 2012].

Gutschalk, A., Steinmann, I., Wiegand, K., and Dykstra, A. (2012). Benefit and limitation of combining MEG and fMRI to study correlates of perception in the auditory cortex. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 131, 3387. Available at: [Accessed May 20, 2012].

Howard, M. F., and Poeppel, D. (2012). The neuromagnetic response to spoken sentences: co-modulation of theta band amplitude and phase. Neuroimage 60, 2118-2127. Available at: [Accessed May 20, 2012].

Linke, A. C., and Cusack, R. (2012). Decoding feature information in human auditory cortex-A comparison of auditory perception, short-term memory and imagery. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 131, 3386. Available at: [Accessed May 16, 2012].

Schulze, K., Vargha-Khadem, F., and Mishkin, M. (2012). Test of a motor theory of long-term auditory memory. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109, 7121-7125. Available at: [Accessed May 20, 2012].

Steinmann, I., and Gutschalk, A. (2012). Sustained BOLD and theta activity in auditory cortex are related to slow stimulus fluctuations rather than to pitch. Journal of Neurophysiology. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22457459 [Accessed May 20, 2012].

Wiegand, K., and Gutschalk, A. (2012). Correlates of perceptual awareness in human primary auditory cortex revealed by an informational masking experiment. Neuroimage 61, 62-69. Available at: [Accessed May 20, 2012].

June 1-15, 2012:

Buzsáki, G., and Wang, X.-J. (2012). Mechanisms of Gamma Oscillations. Annual Review of Neuroscience.

Buzsáki, G., Anastassiou, C. A., and Koch, C. (2012). The origin of extracellular fields and currents — EEG, ECoG, LFP and spikes. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 13, 407-420.

Gutschalk, A., Steinmann, I., Wiegand, K., and Dykstra, A. (2012). Benefit and limitation of combining MEG and fMRI to study correlates of perception in the auditory cortex. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 131, 3387.

Howard, M. F., and Poeppel, D. (2012). The neuromagnetic response to spoken sentences: co-modulation of theta band amplitude and phase. Neuroimage 60, 2118-2127

Fukushima, M., Saunders, R. C., Leopold, D. A., Mishkin, M., and Averbeck, B. B. (2012). Spontaneous High-Gamma Band Activity Reflects Functional Organization of Auditory Cortex in the Awake Macaque. Neuron 74, 899-910.

Friederici, A. D. (2012). The cortical language circuit: from auditory perception to sentence comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 16, 262-268.

Rauschecker, J. P. (2012). Ventral and dorsal streams in the evolution of speech and language. Front Evol Neurosci 4, 7.

Schroeder, C. E., and Lakatos, P. (2012). The Signs of Silence. Neuron 74, 770-772.

Zion-Golumbic, E., and Schroeder, C. E. (2012). Attention modulates “speech-tracking” at a cocktail party. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

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Brain imaging: fMRI 2.0

Author:

Kerri Smith

Link:

http://www.nature.com/news/brain-imaging-fmri-2-0-1.10365

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Correlates of perceptual awareness in human primary auditory cortex revealed by an informational masking experiment

Authors:

Katrin Wiegand and Alexander Gutschalk

Link:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811912002522

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Nonverbal sound processing in semantic dementia: A functional MRI study

Authors:

Johanna C. Goll, Gerard R. Ridgway, Sebastian J. Crutch, Frederic E. Theunissen, Jason D. Warren

Link:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811912002236

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Plasticity in gray and white: neuroimaging changes in brain structure during learning

Authors:

Robert Zatorre, R Douglas Fields, Hiedi Johansen-Berg

Link:

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.3045.html

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Cortical oscillations and speech processing

Authors:

Anne-Lise Giraud and David Poeppel

Link:

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.3063.html

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Temporal predictive codes for spoken words in auditory cortex

Authors:

Pierre Gagnepain, Rik Henson, Matt Davis

Link:

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2812%2900134-0

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Extinction reveals that primary sensory cortex predicts reinforcement outcome

Authors:

Kasia Bieszczad, Norman Weinberger

Link:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07974.x/abstract;jsessionid=0FCEA7829DCA8BE8A85FFC7B1D4733FF.d01t04

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Neural Mechanisms of Rhythmic Masking Release in Monkey Primary Auditory Cortex: Implications for Models of Auditory Scene Analysis

Authors:

Yonatan I. Fishman, Christophe Micheyl, and Mitchell Steinschneider

Link:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627312001298

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Rethinking the emotional brain

Author:

Joseph LeDoux

Link:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627312001298

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Sound-driven synaptic inhibition in primary visual cortex

Authors:

Giuliano Iurilli, Diego Ghezzi, Umberto Olcese, Glenda Lassi, Cristiano Nazzaro, Raffaella Tonini, Valter Tucci, Fabio Benfenati, Paolo Medini

Link:

http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273%2812%2900076-1

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What does it mean to be musical?

Author:

Dan Levitin

Link:

http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273%2812%2900099-2

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Special issue on 'Multistability in perception: binding sensory modalities'

Compiled and edited by Jean-Luc Schwartz, Nicolas Grimault, Jean-Michel Hupé, Brian C. J. Moore and Daniel Pressnitzer

Link:

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/367/1591.toc

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Neural Mechanisms of Rhythmic Masking Release in Monkey Primary Auditory Cortex: Implications for Models of Auditory Scene Analysis

Authors:

Fishman, Y., Micheyl, C., and Steinschneider, M.

Link:

http://jn.physiology.org/content/early/2012/02/03/jn.01010.2011.long

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Speech versus Song: Multiple Pitch-Sensitive Areas Revealed by a Naturally Occurring Musical Illusion

Authors:

Tierney, A., Dick, F., Deutsch, D., Sereno, M.

Link:

http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/02/07/cercor.bhs003.abstract

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Attention, awareness, and the perception of auditory scenes

Authors:

Snyder, J.S., Gregg, M.K., Alain, C.

Link:

http://www.frontiersin.org/consciousness_research/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00015/pdf/abstract