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The impact of musical expertise on disentangled and contextual neural encoding of music revealed by generative music models

How musical expertise impacts the brain’s processing of complex musical information remains unclear. Using generative music models, this study reveals that musicians display enhanced disentangled and contextual neural encoding of music.

Gavin Mischler
Yinghao Aaron Li
Nima Mesgarani
ResearchOpen Access06 Oct 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-13
Contextual feature extraction hierarchies converge in large language models and the brain

Why brain-like feature extraction emerges in large language models (LLMs) remains elusive. Mischler, Li and colleagues demonstrate that high-performing LLMs not only predict neural responses more accurately than other LLMs but also align more closely with the hierarchical language processing pathway in the brain, revealing parallels between these models and human cognitive mechanisms.

Gavin Mischler
Yinghao Aaron Li
Nima Mesgarani
Research26 Nov 2024
Nature Machine Intelligence

Volume: 6, P: 1467-1477
Intracranial electroencephalography reveals effector-independent evidence accumulation dynamics in multiple human brain regions

Using intracranial EEG in human participants, the authors identify a functionally distinct set of brain regions which exhibited characteristic signatures of decision formation independently of the motor action associated with the choice.

Sabina Gherman
Noah Markowitz
Stephan Bickel
Research16 Feb 2024
Nature Human Behaviour

Volume: 8, P: 758-770
Semantic novelty modulates neural responses to visual change across the human brain

Movies are complex, continuous stimuli that are characterized by visual and semantic novelty. Here, by leveraging intracranial recordings from 23 humans, the authors find that responses to novelty across film cuts and saccades are widespread in the brain.

Maximilian Nentwich
Marcin Leszczynski
Lucas C. Parra
ResearchOpen Access22 May 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-17
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex

Temporally ordered, anatomically distributed and joint neural encoding of linguistic features reveals a cumulative mapping of sound to meaning, providing empirical evidence for validating neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic models of spoken word recognition.

Menoua Keshishian
Serdar Akkol
Nima Mesgarani
Research02 Mar 2023
Nature Human Behaviour

Volume: 7, P: 740-753
Adaptation of the human auditory cortex to changing background noise

How does the auditory system allow for accurate speech perception against changes in background noise? Here, using neural activity in the auditory cortex as people listen to speech, the authors provide evidence that background noise is selectively suppressed to enhance representations of speech.

Bahar Khalighinejad
Jose L. Herrero
Nima Mesgarani
ResearchOpen Access07 Jun 2019
Nature Communications

Volume: 10, P: 1-11
Convergent evolution of face spaces across human face-selective neuronal groups and deep convolutional networks

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) are able to identify faces on par with humans. Here, the authors record neuronal activity from higher visual areas in humans and show that face-selective responses in the brain show similarity to those in the intermediate layers of the DCNN.

Shany Grossman
Guy Gaziv
Rafael Malach
ResearchOpen Access30 Oct 2019
Nature Communications

Volume: 10, P: 1-13
Spectrotemporal modulation provides a unifying framework for auditory cortical asymmetries

Flinker and colleagues describe a framework for auditory cortical asymmetries that capitalizes on spectrotemporal modulation space. Data from psychophysics, magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG) inform a signal processing-based view on lateralization.

Adeen Flinker
Werner K. Doyle
David Poeppel
Research04 Mar 2019
Nature Human Behaviour

Volume: 3, P: 393-405
Neuronal baseline shifts underlying boundary setting during free recall

Though people are easily able to recall items in a category without mentioning a wrong exemplar, the mechanism underlying this ability is unknown. Here, authors use intracranial recordings to show that this ability is likely due to a selective increase in baseline neuronal activity in category-specific regions.

Yitzhak Norman
Erin M. Yeagle
Rafael Malach
ResearchOpen Access03 Nov 2017
Nature Communications

Volume: 8, P: 1-17
Intracortical mechanisms of single pulse electrical stimulation (SPES) evoked excitations and inhibitions in humans

Boglárka Hajnal
Johanna Petra Szabó
László Entz
ResearchOpen Access14 Jun 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-17
The role of superficial and deep layers in the generation of high frequency oscillations and interictal epileptiform discharges in the human cortex

Daniel Fabo
Virag Bokodi
Sydney S. Cash
ResearchOpen Access14 Jun 2023
Scientific Reports

Volume: 13, P: 1-17
Immediate neurophysiological effects of transcranial electrical stimulation

Transcranial electrical stimulation techniques, such as tDCS and tACS, are popular tools for neuroscience and clinical therapy, but how low-intensity current might modulate brain activity remains unclear. In this review, the authors review the evidence on mechanisms of transcranial electrical stimulation.

Anli Liu
Mihály Vöröslakos
György Buzsáki
ReviewsOpen Access30 Nov 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-12
Author Correction: Intracortical mechanisms of single pulse electrical stimulation (SPES) evoked excitations and inhibitions in humans

Boglárka Hajnal
Johanna Petra Szabó
László Entz
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access18 Oct 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1
Towards reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex

Hassan Akbari
Bahar Khalighinejad
Nima Mesgarani
ResearchOpen Access29 Jan 2019
Scientific Reports

Volume: 9, P: 1-12
Spatiotemporal structure of intracranial electric fields induced by transcranial electric stimulation in humans and nonhuman primates

Alexander Opitz
Arnaud Falchier
Charles E. Schroeder
ResearchOpen Access18 Aug 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-11

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