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Representation of pitch chroma by multi-peak spectral tuning in human auditory cortex.
Trial report in NeuroImage, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Distinct Roles of Deep and Superficial Cortical Layers in Tone Prediction, Comparison, and Adaptation in Human Auditory Cortices.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The Neural Reality of Pitch Chroma in Early Infancy.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Dynamics of Pitch Perception in the Auditory Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Temporally Dissociable Neural Representations of Pitch Height and Chroma.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Processing complexity increases in superficial layers of human primary auditory cortex.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- Incongruent pitch cues are associated with increased activation and functional connectivity in the frontal areas.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Sensitivity and specificity considerations for fMRI encoding, decoding, and mapping of auditory cortex at ultra-high field.NeuroImage · 2018Article
- Reconstructing Tone Sequences from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Blood-Oxygen Level Dependent Responses within Human Primary Auditory Cortex.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Musical notes played at octave intervals (i.e., having the same pitch chroma) are perceived as similar. This well-known perceptual phenomenon lays at the foundation of melody recognition and music perception, yet its neural underpinnings remain largely unknown to date. Using fMRI with high sensitivity and spatial resolution, we examined the contribution of multi-peak spectral tuning to the neural representation of pitch chroma in human auditory cortex in two experiments. In experiment 1, our estimation of population spectral tuning curves from the responses to natural sounds confirmed--with new data--our recent results on the existence of cortical ensemble responses finely tuned to multiple frequencies at one octave distance (Moerel et al., 2013). In experiment 2, we fitted a mathematical model consisting of a pitch chroma and height component to explain the measured fMRI responses to piano notes. This analysis revealed that the octave-tuned populations-but not other cortical populations-harbored a neural representation of musical notes according to their pitch chroma. These results indicate that responses of auditory cortical populations selectively tuned to multiple frequencies at one octave distance predict well the perceptual similarity of musical notes with the same chroma, beyond the physical (frequency) distance of notes.
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