Applying Acoustical and Musicological Analysis to Detect Brain Responses to Realistic Music: A Case Study

Haumann, Niels Trusbak; Kliuchko, Marina; Vuust, Peter; Brattico, Elvira

doi:10.3390/app8050716

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“…We found distinct contrasts in how the brain behaved when listening to speech versus music, as well as Self and Bach versus Gagaku. These results are in line with existing evidence for the impact of enculturation in shaping musical minds ( Neuhaus, 2003 , Hannon and Trehub, 2005a , Hannon and Trehub, 2005b , Hannon and Trainor, 2007 , Morrison et al, 2008 , Nan et al, 2008 , Morrison and Demorest, 2009 , Soley and Hannon, 2010 , Cameron et al, 2015 , Haumann et al, 2018 ). To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first to examine differences in the dynamic modular organization of the functional brain network when participants listen to music that differs in cultural familiarity.…”

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Music to My Ears: Neural modularity and flexibility differ in response to real-world music stimuli

Bonomo

Brandt

Frazier

et al. 2022

IBRO Neuroscience Reports

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Music listening involves many simultaneous neural operations, including auditory processing, working memory, temporal sequencing, pitch tracking, anticipation, reward, and emotion, and thus, a full investigation of music cognition would benefit from whole-brain analyses. Here, we quantify whole-brain activity while participants listen to a variety of music and speech auditory pieces using two network measures that are grounded in complex systems theory: modularity, which measures the degree to which brain regions are interacting in communities, and flexibility, which measures the rate that brain regions switch the communities to which they belong. In a music and brain connectivity study that is part of a larger clinical investigation into music listening and stroke recovery at Houston Methodist Hospital’s Center for Performing Arts Medicine, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was performed on healthy participants while they listened to self-selected music to which they felt a positive emotional attachment, as well as culturally familiar music (J.S. Bach), culturally unfamiliar music (Gagaku court music of medieval Japan), and several excerpts of speech. There was a marked contrast among the whole-brain networks during the different types of auditory pieces, in particular for the unfamiliar music. During the self-selected and Bach tracks, participants’ whole-brain networks exhibited modular organization that was significantly coordinated with the network flexibility. Meanwhile, when the Gagaku music was played, this relationship between brain network modularity and flexibility largely disappeared. In addition, while the auditory cortex’s flexibility during the self-selected piece was equivalent to that during Bach, it was more flexible during Gagaku. The results suggest that the modularity and flexibility measures of whole-brain activity have the potential to lead to new insights into the complex neural function that occurs during music perception of real-world songs.

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Music to My Ears: Neural modularity and flexibility differ in response to real-world music stimuli

Bonomo

Brandt

Frazier

et al. 2022

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“…During the recording, subjects were watching a silenced movie of their own choice with subtitles. In the same experimental session, the subjects were presented with other experimental paradigms comprising Tunteet EEG/MEG protocol, which are and will be reported in separate papers [39,40,43,44].…”

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Fractionating auditory priors: A neural dissociation between active and passive experience of musical sounds

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Learning, attention and action play a crucial role in determining how stimulus predictions are formed, stored, and updated. Years-long experience with the specific repertoires of sounds of one or more musical styles is what characterizes professional musicians. Here we contrasted active experience with sounds, namely long-lasting motor practice, theoretical study and engaged listening to the acoustic features characterizing a musical style of choice in professional musicians with mainly passive experience of sounds in laypersons. We hypothesized that long-term active experience of sounds would influence the neural predictions of the stylistic features in professional musicians in a distinct way from the mainly passive experience of sounds in laypersons. Participants with different musical backgrounds were recruited: professional jazz and classical musicians, amateur musicians and non-musicians. They were presented with a musical multi-feature paradigm eliciting mismatch negativity (MMN), a prediction error signal to changes in six sound features for only 12 minutes of electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings. We observed a generally larger MMN amplitudes–indicative of stronger automatic neural signals to violated priors–in jazz musicians (but not in classical musicians) as compared to non-musicians and amateurs. The specific MMN enhancements were found for spectral features (timbre, pitch, slide) and sound intensity. In participants who were not musicians, the higher preference for jazz music was associated with reduced MMN to pitch slide (a feature common in jazz music style). Our results suggest that long-lasting, active experience of a musical style is associated with accurate neural priors for the sound features of the preferred style, in contrast to passive listening.

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“…They used an existing library of EEG and Magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings from 48 healthy listeners. Preliminary findings demonstrate that studying music novelty can help understand brain reactions to realistic music [42].…”

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Karawitans’ musician brain adaptation: standardized low-resolution electromagnetic tomography study

Wardani

Sittiprapaporn²,

Djohan³

et al. 2023

IJ-AI

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<span lang="EN-US">The rapid advancement of music studies has resulted in a plethora of multidisciplinary participants. Rather than distinguishing between musicians and non-musicians’ brain activity, the current study indicated differences in brain activity while musicians listened to music based on their musical experience. In Go/NoGo response task reaction times, it showed that effects between treatments and visits were different across periods of cognitive function tests. The cognitive function at post-listening assessment out-performed the pre-listening in terms of reaction times (531.94 (±24.70) msec for post-listening assessment; and 557.13 (±37.15) msec for pre-listening assessment. The results of using electroencephalography (EEG) recording in an experimental manner with Karawitan musicians (N=20) revealed that listening to unknown cultural music, Mozart's Piano Sonata in C Major, and western music resulted in increased brain activity. Furthermore, while Karawitan musicians were listening to Mozart's Piano Sonata in C Major, the major brain activity occurred in the frontal lobe. This outcome will elicit additional consideration of music's integration, such as neuroscience of music.</span>

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Applying Acoustical and Musicological Analysis to Detect Brain Responses to Realistic Music: A Case Study

Cited by 9 publications

References 50 publications

Music to My Ears: Neural modularity and flexibility differ in response to real-world music stimuli

Music to My Ears: Neural modularity and flexibility differ in response to real-world music stimuli

Fractionating auditory priors: A neural dissociation between active and passive experience of musical sounds

Karawitans’ musician brain adaptation: standardized low-resolution electromagnetic tomography study

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