Phillip E. Gander

TL;DR: This work robustly demonstrate hippocampal involvement in all phases of auditory working memory (encoding, maintenance, and retrieval): the role of hippocampus in working memory is controversial.

TL;DR: Oscillatory codes for critical aspects of generative models of perception are confirmed, using direct recordings from human auditory cortex, that surprise due to prediction violations is encoded by local field potential oscillations in the gamma band, changes to predictions in the beta band, and that the precision of predictions appears to quantitatively relate to alpha band oscillations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used functional and structural MRI coupled with physiological measurements to demonstrate that trigger sounds elicit greatly exaggerated bloodoxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) responses in the anterior insular cortex (AIC), a core hub of the salience network that is critical for perception of interoceptive signals and emotion processing.

TL;DR: A new framework is proposed, based on predictive coding, in which spontaneous activity in the subcortical auditory pathway constitutes a ‘tinnitus precursor’ which is normally ignored as imprecise evidence against the prevailing percept of ‘silence’.

TL;DR: Demodulated band transform is ideally suited to efficient estimation of both stationary and non-stationary spectral and cross-spectral statistics with minimal susceptibility to spectral leakage.