Got rhythm… for better and for worse. Cross-modal effects of auditory rhythm on visual word recognition

Brochard, Renaud; Tassin, Maxime; Zagar, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2013.01.007

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“…An attentional framework could help explain the perceptual advantages experienced when stimuli are presented aligned with an expected beat versus shifted away: Attention has been directed to that point in time, facilitating perception. This possibility is supported by the finding that a beat percept induced by an auditory beat can have cross-modal effects on perceptual skill, for example, enhancing visual word recognition (Brochard, Tassin, & Zagar, 2013). Studies of perceptual streaming have found that, when participants attend to an auditory stream occurring at a certain rate, embedded in distractors not occurring at that rate, the neural response at the target rate is enhanced (Elhilali et al, 2009), demonstrating that attention can induce an effect similar to that found in the current study.…”

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Neural Entrainment to the Rhythmic Structure of Music

Tierney¹,

Kraus²

2015

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstract■ The neural resonance theory of musical meter explains musical beat tracking as the result of entrainment of neural oscillations to the beat frequency and its higher harmonics. This theory has gained empirical support from experiments using simple, abstract stimuli. However, to date there has been no empirical evidence for a role of neural entrainment in the perception of the beat of ecologically valid music. Here we presented participants with a single pop song with a superimposed bassoon sound. This stimulus was either lined up with the beat of the music or shifted away from the beat by 25% of the average interbeat interval. Both conditions elicited a neural response at the beat frequency. However, although the on-thebeat condition elicited a clear response at the first harmonic of the beat, this frequency was absent in the neural response to the off-the-beat condition. These results support a role for neural entrainment in tracking the metrical structure of real music and show that neural meter tracking can be disrupted by the presentation of contradictory rhythmic cues. ■

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Neural Entrainment to the Rhythmic Structure of Music

Tierney¹,

Kraus²

2015

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…Answering this question would address the generalization of DAT as well as the amodal nature of temporal attention. This is the approach we chose to implement here, based on previous behavioral studies showing that attentional entrainment by an auditory meter can benefit processing of visual stimuli when these were presented in, rather than out of, synchrony with the background auditory meter (Bolger et al, 2013;Brochard, Tassin, & Zagar, 2013;Miller, Carlson, & McAuley, 2013;Escoffier et al, 2010). Moreover, using both speeded detection and discrimination versions of the task, we further demonstrated that the effects of meter on performance were independent of the modality of the target and were induced as effectively by a simple metrical structure, like a metronome, as a more ecological stimulus, such as a recording of classical music (Bolger et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Metrical Rhythm Implicitly Orients Attention in Time as Indexed by Improved Target Detection and Left Inferior Parietal Activation

Bolger

Coull

Schön

2014

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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When we direct attentional resources to a certain point in time, expectation and preparedness is heightened and behavior is, as a result, more efficient. This future-oriented attending can be guided either voluntarily, by externally defined cues, or implicitly, by perceived temporal regularities. Inspired by dynamic attending theory, our aim was to study the extent to which metrical structure, with its beats of greater or lesser relative strength, modulates attention implicitly over time and to uncover the neural circuits underlying this process of dynamic attending. We used fMRI to investigate whether auditory meter generated temporal expectancies and, consequently, how it affected processing of auditory and visual targets. Participants listened to a continuous auditory metrical sequence and pressed a button whenever an auditory or visual target was presented. The independent variable was the time of target presentation with respect to the metrical structure of the sequence. Participants' RTs to targets occurring on strong metrical positions were significantly faster than responses to events falling on weak metrical positions. Events falling on strong beats were accompanied by increased activation of the left inferior parietal cortex, a region crucial for orienting attention in time, and, by greater functional connectivity between the left inferior parietal cortex and the visual and auditory cortices, the SMA and the cerebellum. These results support the predictions of the dynamic attending theory that metrical structure with its relative strong and weak beats modulates attentional resources over time and, in turn, affects the functioning of both perceptual and motor preparatory systems.

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“…Delta and theta oscillations were suggested to be correlated with attentional fluctuations [23]. Hence, as proposed by the auditory dynamic attention theory [24, 25], they might play a crucial role in pitch discrimination in regularly spaced tone sequences.…”

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Pre-target neural oscillations predict variability in the detection of small pitch changes

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Pitch discrimination is important for language or music processing. Previous studies indicate that auditory perception depends on pre-target neural activity. However, so far the pre-target electrophysiological conditions which enable the detection of small pitch changes are not well studied, but might yield important insights into pitch-processing. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) source imaging to reveal the pre-target effects of successful auditory detection of small pitch deviations from a sequence of standard tones. Participants heard a sequence of four pure tones and had to determine whether the last target tone was different or identical to the first three standard sounds. We found that successful pitch change detection could be predicted from the amplitude of theta (4–8 Hz) oscillatory activity in the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) as well as beta (12–30 Hz) oscillatory activity in the right auditory cortex. These findings confirm and extend evidence for the involvement of theta as well as beta-band activity in auditory perception.

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Got rhythm… for better and for worse. Cross-modal effects of auditory rhythm on visual word recognition

Cited by 46 publications

References 29 publications

Neural Entrainment to the Rhythmic Structure of Music

Neural Entrainment to the Rhythmic Structure of Music

Metrical Rhythm Implicitly Orients Attention in Time as Indexed by Improved Target Detection and Left Inferior Parietal Activation

Pre-target neural oscillations predict variability in the detection of small pitch changes

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