Interaction between Syntax Processing in Language and in Music: An ERP Study

Koelsch, Stefan; Gunter, Thomas C.; Wittfoth, Matthias; Sammler, Daniela

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“…The MEG study of Maess et al (2001) and two fMRI studies by Koelsch et al (2005) and Tillmann et al (2003) additional sources in the right inferior frontal gyrus and inferior parietal lobule (Opitz et al, 2002;Park et al, 2002). In our discrete source analysis, the individual and grand average sources of the ERAN were located significantly more anterior than the MMN sources (see Fig.…”

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“…The cognitive processes eliciting these brain responses are hence most likely different as well Koelsch et al, 2005;Koelsch et al, 2006;Leino et al, 2007). In particular, the extraction of rules dictating a hierarchical structure of musical events seem to require generators in the prefrontal cortex, whereas for the extraction of sequential music rules determining the frequency ratio between two consecutive sounds, the auditory cortex plays a primary role.…”

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Distinct neural responses to chord violations: A multiple source analysis study

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The human brain is constantly predicting the auditory environment by representing sequential similarities and extracting temporal regularities. It has been proposed that simple auditory regularities are extracted at lower stations of the auditory cortex and more complex ones at other brain regions, such as the prefrontal cortex. Deviations from auditory regularities elicit a family of early negative electric potentials distributed over the frontal regions of the scalp. In this study, we wished to disentangle the brain processes associated with sequential vs. hierarchical auditory regularities in a musical context by studying the event-related potentials (ERPs), the behavioral responses to violations of these regularities, and the localization of the underlying ERP generators using two different source analysis algorithms. To this aim, participants listened to musical cadences constituted by seven chords, each containing either harmonically congruous chords, harmonically incongruous chords, or harmonically congruous but mistuned chords. EEG was recorded and multiple source analysis was performed. Incongruous chords violating the rules of harmony elicited a bilateral ERAN, whereas mistuned chords within chord sequences elicited a right-lateralized MMN. We found that the dominant cortical sources for the ERAN were localized around Broca's area and its right homolog, whereas the MMN generators were localized around the primary auditory cortex. These findings suggest a predominant role of the auditory cortices in detecting sequential scale regularities and the posterior prefrontal cortex in parsing hierarchical regularities in music.

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“…This analysis further revealed that musicians showed significantly greater activity than nonmusicians in superior frontal, superior temporal, and lingual gyrus when confronted with incongruences. More importantly, the significant role of inferior frontal cortex for response inhibition (31) and for the identification of auditory pattern violations (32,33) has been repeatedly shown using several neuroimaging modalities (34) not only for linguistic (35) but also for musical stimuli (36). In addition, musicians show enhanced gray matter density (37) and enhanced connectivity of this region (38).…”

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Musical expertise is related to altered functional connectivity during audiovisual integration

Paraskevopoulos

Kraneburg

Herholz

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The present study investigated the cortical large-scale functional network underpinning audiovisual integration via magnetoencephalographic recordings. The reorganization of this network related to long-term musical training was investigated by comparing musicians to nonmusicians. Connectivity was calculated on the basis of the estimated mutual information of the sources' activity, and the corresponding networks were statistically compared. Nonmusicians' results indicated that the cortical network associated with audiovisual integration supports visuospatial processing and attentional shifting, whereas a sparser network, related to spatial awareness supports the identification of audiovisual incongruences. In contrast, musicians' results showed enhanced connectivity in regions related to the identification of auditory pattern violations. Hence, nonmusicians rely on the processing of visual clues for the integration of audiovisual information, whereas musicians rely mostly on the corresponding auditory information. The large-scale cortical network underpinning multisensory integration is reorganized due to expertise in a cognitive domain that largely involves audiovisual integration, indicating long-term training-related neuroplasticity.functional connectivity | MEG | multisensory integration | cortical plasticity | musical training M ultisensory integration is of such importance for our understanding of the surrounding world that its cortical correlates interact with most of the neocortical regions, including the ones traditionally considered as unisensory (1). The cortical areas that are usually referred to as multisensory include the superior temporal sulcus, the intraparietal sulcus, and the frontal cortex (2). Nevertheless, recent evidence suggests that multisensory perception engages more widespread areas than what the classic modular approaches have so far assumed (1). Moreover, audiovisual integration emerges from a dynamic interplay of distributed regions operating in large-scale networks (3).The amount of shared information within these large-scale networks of distributed neuronal groups conceptualizes the notion of functional connectivity (4). Recent methodological advances allow the identification of networks that emerge from whole-brain analyses of neuroimaging data such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) (5) and provide fertile ground for studying the functional connectivity patterns of higher cognitive processes. These kinds of networks are modeled as graphs composed of nodes, which represent the cortical areas contributing to the network, and by edges, which represent the connections between the nodes. Each network has specific attributes that quantify connectivity organization (6). These graphs depict the functional connectome of the respective cognitive processes. Recent evidence suggests that functional connectivity networks may be reorganized by factors mediating neuroplasticity such as learning and development (7), altering information processing ...

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“…Musical syntax refers to the structural organization of musical events evolving over time and this organization is based on rules specific to the musical system. The comparison between the processing of syntactic structures in language and in music has raised the hypothesis of shared neural resources (see Patel et al, 1998;Patel, 2003;Koelsch et al, 2005). For R3, the two data sets on language and music thus suggest that the particular lesion pattern impairs sequential processing mechanisms that are necessary for syntax processing and that seem to be shared across these two domains.…”

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Cerebellar patients demonstrate preserved implicit knowledge of association strengths in musical sequences

Tillmann

Justus

Bigand

2008

Brain and Cognition

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Recent findings suggest the involvement of the cerebellum in perceptual and cognitive tasks. Our study investigated whether cerebellar patients show musical priming based on implicit knowledge of tonal-harmonic music. Participants performed speeded phoneme identification on sung target chords, which were either related or less-related to prime contexts in terms of the tonal-harmonic system. As groups, both cerebellar patients and age-matched controls showed facilitated processing for related targets, as previously observed for healthy young adults. The outcome suggests that an intact cerebellum is not mandatory for accessing implicit knowledge stored in long-term memory and for its influence on perception. One patient showed facilitated processing for less-related targets (suggesting sensory priming). The findings suggest directions for future research on auditory perception in cerebellar patients to further our understanding of cerebellar functions. Keywordsnonverbal auditory perception/music perception; implicit knowledge; music cognition; cerebellum; cognitive priming; neuropsychology Numerous neuropsychological and neuroimaging findings suggest that the function of the cerebellum is not restricted to movement and motor control, but extends to perceptual and cognitive capacities. A seminal fMRI paper by Gao et al. (1996) reported that the dentate nuclei of the cerebellum were more active during manual tasks that emphasized sensory discrimination, rather than during movement per se. Neuroimaging studies have shown increased activation of the cerebellum during auditory tasks (Petacchi et al., 2005), such as frequency, intensity and duration discrimination (Belin et al., 2002), the processing of complex nonspeech sounds over pure tones (Vouloumanos et al., 2001), as well as for auditory attention (Janata, Tillmann, & Bharucha, 2002) and the perception of musical structures (Parsons, 2001;Tillmann, Janata, & Bharucha, 2003). Work in auditory perception is just one piece of a larger emerging picture that suggests potential cerebellar contributions to higher cognitive functions involving memory and language (see Fiez, 1996;Justus & Ivry, 2001 for reviews). Although the cerebellum seems to be implicated in perceptual and cognitive functions, no Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to: Barbara Tillmann, Université Claude Bernard -Lyon I, CNRS UMR 5020, Neurosciences et Systèmes Sensoriels, 50 Av. Tony Garnier, F-69366 Lyon Cedex 07, France, Tel : +33 (0) 4 37 28 74 93, Fax : +33 (0) 4 37 28 76 01, barbara.tillmann@olfac.univ-lyon1.fr. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers...

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Interaction between Syntax Processing in Language and in Music: An ERP Study

Cited by 249 publications

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Distinct neural responses to chord violations: A multiple source analysis study

Distinct neural responses to chord violations: A multiple source analysis study

Musical expertise is related to altered functional connectivity during audiovisual integration

Cerebellar patients demonstrate preserved implicit knowledge of association strengths in musical sequences

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