Auditory local–global temporal processing: evidence for perceptual reorganization with musical expertise

Susini, Patrick; Jiaouan, Sarah Jibodh; Brunet, Elena; Houix, Olivier; Ponsot, Emmanuel

doi:10.1038/s41598-020-72423-7

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“…Global advantage and global-to-local interference effects respectively account for the ability to favor global information over local information, and the ability to process local information independently of global information. Stimuli and procedure used to measure these effects in audition were constructed according to Susini et al (2020). We here only briefly recall the main parameters of the stimuli used for the present experiment; the reader is invited to refer to our previous study for further details.…”

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“…Tones' duration was 100 ms, inter-tone intervals within each triplet were 10 ms and inter-triplet intervals were 120 ms, resulting in 1,200-ms sequences following a specific rhythm (sixteenth note triplets on every beat). As in Susini et al (2020), four set of hierarchical patterns were used, consisting of rising, falling, rising-falling and falling-rising pitch profiles. Tone levels were normalized in loudness across frequency using the ISO226 equal-loudness curve at 70 dB SPL to ensure they were similar in terms of perceptual emergence.…”

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“…the pitch contour formed by the mean of the three triplets of the comparison stimulus, was similar to that of the target stimulus irrespective of its local pitch profiles. Local and/or global modifications were applied to the same first or third triplet of the comparison stimulus in a random fashion, see Susini et al 2020 for details. Importantly, the comparison stimulus always differed from the target at least by an overall random pitch transposition.…”

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“…Their results interestingly showed that musicians exhibit a reduced global advantage compared to non-musicians due to an enhanced ability to process local information. In Susini et al (2020), we followed this comparison of musicians and non-musicians by conducting a local-global task (LGT) with a novel experimental design where listeners had to compare a target melody with a probe melody modified either at a local level (musical intervals), a global level (melodic contour), or both. Results revealed a prominent reorganization for musicians, where the initial global dominance observed for non-musicians was reversed to the benefit of local information.…”

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“…The main goal of this study was to characterize, in the same individuals, the overall reconfiguration of auditory processing organization, as exposed with both the local-global paradigm (Experiment 1, based on Susini et al, 2020) and the auditory streaming paradigm (Experiment 2, based on , for different levels of musical learning, by considering three groups of listeners with different musical experience: non-musicians, amateur musicians and expert musicians. Since long-term music training is known to be associated with improvements in working memory (George and Coch, 2011), we complemented the present investigation with a working memory test (Experiment 3), allowing us to gain further insight into the role of memory development in the observed effects.…”

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Beyond the musician vs. non-musician dichotomy: A focus on amateur musicians suggests that music learning induces a sequential reconfiguration of perceptual auditory organization

Susini¹,

Wenzel²,

Houix³

et al. 2023

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Previous work investigating how non-musicians and expert musicians process local (musical intervals) and global information (melodic contour) in a local-global task (LGT) shed light on a processing style developed by expert musicians that prioritizes local compared to global temporal information (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72423-7). The goal of the present work was to further address the mechanisms underlying this perceptual reorganization, in particular how it relates to auditory streaming capacities. To this end, we here considered listeners spanning a wider range of musical expertise: in addition to non-musicians (N=10) and expert musicians (N=8), a group of amateur musicians was recruited (N=8), represented by individuals with occasional solo instrumental practice but no prior theoretical training. All participants performed the LGT, as well as an interleaved melody recognition task (IMRT) taken from previous works on auditory streaming that requires the parsing of information along the frequency dimension. In the LGT, results supported previous evidence of a global advantage for non-musicians and a local advantage for expert musicians, and revealed a trend towards a local advantage for amateur musicians. In the IMRT, expert musicians outperformed both non-musicians and amateur musicians, who both had comparable poorer performance. A working memory test and a questionnaire surveying the level of musical expertise of the participants were also conducted. Taken together, our results suggest that, on the one hand, amateur musicians develop a trend to favor local compared to global information, similar to expert musicians, which is associated with their development of working memory; on the other hand, their performance for segregating a target melodic stream from another stream along the frequency dimension remains as poor as that of non-musicians. Overall, our data suggest that the perceptual reorganization of auditory information associated with musical learning takes place as a sequential reconfiguration: compared to the early change of processing style observed on the temporal dimension, the development of processing skills specific to the frequency dimension would require a higher degree of auditory expertise, that we suggest could be associated with collective musical practice.

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Section: Procedures and Stimulimentioning

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Beyond the musician vs. non-musician dichotomy: A focus on amateur musicians suggests that music learning induces a sequential reconfiguration of perceptual auditory organization

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Wenzel²,

Houix³

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Psychophysical characterization of auditory temporal and frequency streaming capacities for listeners with different levels of musical expertise

Susini,

Wenzel,

Houix

et al. 2023

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Temporal and frequency auditory streaming capacities were assessed for non-musician (NM), expert musician (EM), and amateur musician (AM) listeners using a local-global task and an interleaved melody recognition task, respectively. Data replicate differences previously observed between NM and EM, and reveal that while AM exhibits a local-over-global processing change comparable to EM, their performance for segregating a melody embedded in a stream remains as poor as NM. The observed group partitioning along the temporal-frequency auditory streaming capacity map suggests a sequential, two-step development model of musical learning, whose contributing factors are discussed.

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Nameability effects and short-term memory limitations on order perception and enumeration of brief sounds

Psarompa,

Fotiadis,

Vatakis

2024

PLoS ONE

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Research has shown that perceiving the order of successive auditory stimuli could be affected by their nameability. The present research re-examined this hypothesis, using tasks requiring participants to report the order of successively presented (with no interstimulus gaps) environmental (i.e., easily named stimuli) and abstract (i.e., hard-to-name stimuli) sounds of short duration (i.e., 200 ms). Using the same sequences, we also examined the accuracy of the sounds perceived by administering enumeration tasks. Data analyses showed that accuracy in the ordering tasks was equally low for both environmental and abstract sounds, whereas accuracy in the enumeration tasks was higher for the former as compared to the latter sounds. Importantly, overall accuracy in the enumeration tasks did not reach ceiling levels, suggesting some limitations in the perception of successively presented stimuli. Overall, naming fluency seemed to affect sound enumeration, but no effects were obtained for order perception. Furthermore, an effect of each sound’s location in a sequence on ordering accuracy was noted. Our results question earlier notions suggesting that order perception is mediated by stimuli’s nameability and leave open the possibility that memory capacity limits may play a role.

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Auditory local–global temporal processing: evidence for perceptual reorganization with musical expertise

Cited by 5 publications

References 47 publications

Beyond the musician vs. non-musician dichotomy: A focus on amateur musicians suggests that music learning induces a sequential reconfiguration of perceptual auditory organization

Beyond the musician vs. non-musician dichotomy: A focus on amateur musicians suggests that music learning induces a sequential reconfiguration of perceptual auditory organization

Psychophysical characterization of auditory temporal and frequency streaming capacities for listeners with different levels of musical expertise

Nameability effects and short-term memory limitations on order perception and enumeration of brief sounds

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