In this review, we attempt to integrate the empirical evidence regarding stimulus-specific
adaptation (SSA) and mismatch negativity (MMN) under a predictive coding perspective …

The early stages of the auditory system need to preserve the timing information of sounds in
order to extract the basic features of acoustic stimuli. At the same time, different processes of …

Reliably detecting unexpected sounds is important for environmental awareness and
survival. By selectively reducing responses to frequently, but not rarely, occurring sounds …

Stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) is the reduction in the response to a common stimulus
that does not generalize, or only partially generalizes, to other, rare stimuli. SSA has been …

To follow an ever-changing auditory scene, the auditory brain is continuously creating a
representation of the past to form expectations about the future. Unexpected events will …

Neural activity in the auditory system decreases with repeated stimulation, matching
stimulus probability in multiple timescales. This phenomenon, known as stimulus-specific …

In this account, we attempt to integrate two parallel, but thus far, separate lines of research
on auditory novelty detection:(1) human studies of EEG recordings of the mismatch …

The inferior colliculus (IC) is a major processing center situated mid-way along both the
ascending and descending auditory pathways of the brain stem. Although it is fundamentally …

Neurons in auditory cortex are sensitive to the probability of stimuli: responses to rare stimuli
tend to be stronger than responses to common ones. Here, intra-and extracellular …

According to the predictive processing framework, perception emerges from the reciprocal
exchange of predictions and prediction errors (PEs) between hierarchically organized …