ReviewFrontiers in systems neuroscience2013
Neural and behavioral investigations into timbre perception.
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- Visual biases from cis and trans judges in evaluation of voices with pitch and timbre manipulations.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Auditory and vibrotactile interactions in perception of timbre acoustic features.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The impact of musical expertise on disentangled and contextual neural encoding of music revealed by generative music models.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Effects of Memantine on the Auditory Steady-State and Harmonic Responses to 40 Hz Stimulation Across Species.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2024Article
- Neural correlates of musical timbre: an ALE meta-analysis of neuroimaging data.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Adaptive auditory brightness perception.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Lemniscal Corticothalamic Feedback in Auditory Scene Analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Robust Rate-Place Coding of Resolved Components in Harmonic and Inharmonic Complex Tones in Auditory Midbrain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Hierarchy of speech-driven spectrotemporal receptive fields in human auditory cortex.NeuroImage · 2019Article
- Sound identity is represented robustly in auditory cortex during perceptual constancy.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Neural coding of sound envelope structure in songbirds.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Article
- A roadmap for the study of conscious audition and its neural basis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Importance of spike timing in touch: an analogy with hearing?Current opinion in neurobiology · 2016Review
- The role of spectral cues in timbre discrimination by ferrets and humans.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2015Article
- Sound Richness of Music Might Be Mediated by Color Perception: A PET Study.Behavioural neurology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Timbre is the attribute that distinguishes sounds of equal pitch, loudness and duration. It contributes to our perception and discrimination of different vowels and consonants in speech, instruments in music and environmental sounds. Here we begin by reviewing human timbre perception and the spectral and temporal acoustic features that give rise to timbre in speech, musical and environmental sounds. We also consider the perception of timbre by animals, both in the case of human vowels and non-human vocalizations. We then explore the neural representation of timbre, first within the peripheral auditory system and later at the level of the auditory cortex. We examine the neural networks that are implicated in timbre perception and the computations that may be performed in auditory cortex to enable listeners to extract information about timbre. We consider whether single neurons in auditory cortex are capable of representing spectral timbre independently of changes in other perceptual attributes and the mechanisms that may shape neural sensitivity to timbre. Finally, we conclude by outlining some of the questions that remain about the role of neural mechanisms in behavior and consider some potentially fruitful avenues for future research.
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