Boundaries of Separability between Melody and Rhythm in Music Discrimination: A Neuropsychological Perspective

Peretz, Isabelle; Kolinsky, Régine

doi:10.1080/14640749308401048

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“…Peretz [29] reported that two right hemisphere damaged patients showed a selective deficit in the processing of pitch, while a reverse pattern of selective deficit of the temporal dimension was found in two left brain damaged patients. Other single case studies have also demonstrated selective impairment of one or the other dimension [13,24,30,31], and other studies in the field of cognitive psychology support the hypothesis of independence [15,26,28].…”

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confidence: 72%

Processing pitch and duration in music reading: a RT–ERP study

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Besson

2002

Neuropsychologia

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The originality of this study is to examine the processing of pitch and duration in music reading, using both electrophysiological and behavioral methods. Specifically, it was of interest to determine whether pitch and duration in music reading are processed independently or jointly. A probe, comprising a key and time signature was presented, and participants were required to compute the tonic and/or the best fitting duration. A target note followed the probe and participants made a match/mismatch judgment on the dimension they were required to analyze (i.e. pitch or duration). We hypothesized that, if pitch and duration are processed independently results should show no interference of the irrelevant dimension on the relevant. Results showed that early differences emerged in the ERPs as a function of the task to be performed on the target in block 1. Moreover, RTs were shorter in the pitch than in the duration task and for congruous than incongruous targets. In the ERPs, this congruity effect was reflected by a negative component, to incongruous targets. Most importantly, the congruency of the target note on the irrelevant dimension did not have any effect on the ERPs, suggesting that pitch and duration are processed independently.

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confidence: 72%

Processing pitch and duration in music reading: a RT–ERP study

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Besson

2002

Neuropsychologia

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“…Isolated deficits of 'amelodia' and arrhythmia have been reported in the amusia literature for perceptual, productive, and musical reading tasks [4,13,30,37,38,[40][41][42]62]. Separate cognitive representations of melody and rhythm have also been proposed in the developmental [62,63] and normal adult literature [43,60,62], supporting the general applicability of this distinction.…”

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confidence: 82%

Modelling rhythmic function in a musician post-stroke

2002

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The aim of this study was to model the components of rhythmic function in a case (H.J.) of acquired rhythmic disturbance. H.J. is a right-handed, amateur male musician who acquired arrhythmia in the context of a global amusia after sustaining a right temporoparietal infarct. His rhythmic disturbance was analysed in relation to three independent components using an autoregressive extension of Wing and Kristofferson's model of rhythmic timing. This revealed preserved error-correction and motor implementation capacities, but a gross disturbance of H.J.'s central timing system ("cognitive clock"). It rendered him unable to generate a steady pulse, prevented adequate discrimination and reproduction of novel metrical rhythms, and partly contributed to bi-manual co-ordination difficulties in his instrumental performance. The findings are considered in relation to the essential components of the cognitive architecture of rhythmic function, and their respective cerebral lateralisation and localisation. Overall, the data suggested that the functioning of the right temporal auditory cortex is fundamental to 'keeping the beat' in music. The approach is presented as a new paradigm for future neuropsychological research examining rhythmic disturbances.

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“…Neuropsychological data suggest that these dimensions are not always tightly bound. Amusicsstroke patients or neurologically intact individuals with pronounced impairments on tasks requiring fine-grained pitch judgments-show better performance, sometimes even on par with control listeners, on temporal judgments, relative to pitch judgments, thereby indicating that at least in such individuals, the neural substrates supporting temporal and pitch judgments differ (Ayotte, Peretz, & Hyde, 2002;Hyde & Peretz, 2004;Peretz et al, 2002;Peretz & Kolinsky, 1993). It is, therefore, not surprising that mental images formed on each dimension can show different tuning characteristics, even if listeners are instructed to imagine objects in which these dimensions are integrated-for example, the notes of a melody.…”

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confidence: 99%