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Therefore, we examined participants with and without musical experience using a spatial auditory oddball paradigm with multiple spatial deviations under both unattended and attended conditions. Behavioral performance, event-related potentials, and phase-locking value (PLV)-based functional connectivity were jointly analyzed to characterize spatial auditory processing at behavioral, local neural, and network levels. Participants with musical experience showed higher localization accuracy and faster reaction times. During unattended listening, they exhibited larger mismatch negativity (MMN) amplitudes and stronger functional connectivity, particularly across frontal, temporal, and parietal\u2013occipital regions, whereas during attended listening, they showed larger P300 amplitudes and enhanced large-scale neural synchronization, particularly between frontal and parietal\u2013occipital regions. 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