Predictive processes and the peculiar case of music

S Koelsch, P Vuust, K Friston - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
We suggest that music perception is an active act of listening, providing an irresistible
epistemic offering. When listening to music we constantly generate plausible hypotheses …

The evolution of rhythm processing

SA Kotz, A Ravignani, WT Fitch - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Behavioral and brain rhythms in the millisecond-to-second range are central in human
music, speech, and movement. A comparative approach can further our understanding of …

Without it no music: cognition, biology and evolution of musicality

H Honing, C ten Cate, I Peretz… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Musicality can be defined as a natural, spontaneously develo** trait based on and
constrained by biology and cognition. Music, by contrast, can be defined as a social and …

Combinatoriality in the vocal systems of nonhuman animals

S Engesser, SW Townsend - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A key challenge in the field of human language evolution is the identification of the selective
conditions that gave rise to language's generative nature. Comparative data on nonhuman …

Defining the biological bases of individual differences in musicality

B Gingras, H Honing, I Peretz… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Advances in molecular technologies make it possible to pinpoint genomic factors associated
with complex human traits. For cognition and behaviour, identification of underlying genes …

The right inferior frontal gyrus processes nested non-local dependencies in music

VKM Cheung, L Meyer, AD Friederici, S Koelsch - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Complex auditory sequences known as music have often been described as hierarchically
structured. This permits the existence of non-local dependencies, which relate elements of a …

Toward a computational neuroethology of vocal communication: from bioacoustics to neurophysiology, emerging tools and future directions

T Sainburg, TQ Gentner - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recently developed methods in computational neuroethology have enabled increasingly
detailed and comprehensive quantification of animal movements and behavioral kinematics …

Imposing higher-level structure in polyphonic music generation using convolutional restricted boltzmann machines and constraints

S Lattner, M Grachten, G Widmer - Journal of Creative Music …, 2018 - search.informit.org
We introduce a method for imposing higher-level structure on generated, polyphonic music.
A Convolutional Restricted Boltzmann Machine (C-RBM) as a generative model is combined …

Hierarchical temporal structure in music, speech and animal vocalizations: jazz is like a conversation, humpbacks sing like hermit thrushes

CT Kello, SD Bella, B Médé… - Journal of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Humans talk, sing and play music. Some species of birds and whales sing long and complex
songs. All these behaviours and sounds exhibit hierarchical structure—syllables and notes …

Domestic cat sound classification using learned features from deep neural nets

YR Pandeya, D Kim, J Lee - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Domestic cats are ancient human pet animal that communicate
through generating sounds. Automatic animal sound classification creates a better human …