Experience-dependent neural substrates involved in vocal pitch regulation during singing

Zarate, Jean Mary; Zatorre, Robert J.

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.01.026

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“…Typically, compensation to pitch shifts is exhibited as a corrective "opposing" response to counter the direction of the shift, indicating a closed-loop negative feedback system Natke et al, 2003). Because these responses happen without intent by the speaker and people are unable to suppress them (Zarate and Zatorre, 2008), they are thought to be involuntary in nature. However, a fairly large proportion of responses is imitating or "following" responses that match the direction of the shift.…”

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Understanding the mechanisms underlying voluntary responses to pitch-shifted auditory feedback

Patel

Nishimura

Lodhavia

et al. 2014

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Previous research has shown that vocal errors can be simulated using a pitch perturbation technique. Two types of responses are observed when subjects are asked to ignore changes in pitch during a steady vowel production, a compensatory response countering the direction of the perceived change in pitch and a following response in the same direction as the pitch perturbation. The present study investigated the nature of these responses by asking subjects to volitionally change their voice fundamental frequency either in the opposite direction ("opposing" group) or the same direction ("following" group) as the pitch shifts (6100 cents, 1000 ms) presented during the speaker's production of an /a/ vowel. Results showed that voluntary responses that followed the stimulus directions had significantly shorter latencies (150 ms) than opposing responses (360 ms). In addition, prior to the slower voluntary opposing responses, there were short latency involuntary responses that followed the stimulus direction. These following responses may involve mechanisms of imitation or vocal shadowing of acoustical stimuli when subjects are predisposed to respond to a change in frequency of a sound. The slower opposing responses may represent a control strategy that requires monitoring and correcting for errors between the feedback signal and the intended vocal goal.

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Understanding the mechanisms underlying voluntary responses to pitch-shifted auditory feedback

Patel

Nishimura

Lodhavia

et al. 2014

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…The neuronal underpinnings of the human song system in healthy participants have been examined with neuroimaging techniques, such as PET and fMRI (Brown et al, 2004;Kleber et al, 2007;Perry et al, 1999;Zarate & Zatorre, 2008). In some of these studies, singing was studied in non-musicians (e.g., Perry et al, 1999).…”

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“…Primary auditory cortex (i.e., the superior temporal gyrus, STG) is also engaged by vocal performance-for example, when repeating a single note (Perry et al, 1999), or singing more complex melodies (Brown et al, 2004;Kleber et al, 2007). A few other cortical areas are also systematically activated during vocal performance, such as the supplementary motor area (SMA), the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the insula (Brown et al, 2004;Kleber et al, 2007;Perry et al, 1999;Zarate & Zatorre, 2008). The SMA participates in high-level motor control, needed for efficient motor planning in sequence production.…”

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“…In particular, certain regions (e.g., the inferior sensorimotor cortex and the superior temporal gyrus), activated both when singing and speaking (Gunji et al, 2007;Ö zdemir et al, 2006), are likely responsible for auditory-motor integration (Zarate & Zatorre, 2008). This is a key process in monitoring pitch in vocal performance, which allows error correction during singing.…”

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“…More specifically, the area SPT (i.e., cortex of the dorsal Sylvian fissure at the parietal-temporal junction) is activated both during covert humming and covert speech (Hickok et al, 2003); this area is thought as functioning as a sensorimotor interface in speech production (Hickok & Poeppel, 2007). Audio-vocal integration in singing was recently examined in an interesting study by Zarate and Zatorre (2008), in which non-musicians and experienced singers sang a single tone either with normal auditory feedback or with pitch-shifted feedback. Participants had to ignore the feedback or to compensate by pitch correction.…”

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This article reviews a range of behavioural and neuroimaging studies with the goal of characterising proficient singing in the general population and identifying its neuronal underpinnings. Evidence is provided to suggest that the majority of individuals can carry a tune, and that a complex neural network engaging motor, auditory and sensorimotor integration areas supports this ability. These mechanisms can be disrupted by a brain insult or neurogenetic disorders leading to inaccurate singing. A variety of poor-singing patterns are described (e.g., with or without concurrent perceptual deficiencies).The study of these poor-singing phenotypes is useful in understanding the complex structure of the song system and its neuronal substrates.

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