Perception of melody requires the successful extraction of multiple features from a dynamic acoustic signal. Correspondingly, we have shown that melody is not processed by a single monolithic region. Rather, leveraging both general-auditory and music-specific mechanisms, different neural subpopulations across a spatial map encode distinct melodic features, spanning basic spectrotemporal to time-integrated and statistical structure.

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