Musical space synesthesia: Automatic, explicit and conceptual connections between musical stimuli and space

Akiva-Kabiri, Lilach; Linkovski, Omer; Gertner, Limor; Henik, Avishai

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2014.06.001

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“…People consistently associate high-pitched sounds with objects located high up in space ( Spence, 2011 ). Moreover, musical information can automatically orient attention according to specific spatial musical forms, as reported by Akiva-Kabiri et al (2014) in musical space synesthetes. Importantly, these associations go beyond the auditory modality, extending to pitch and space relationships without sound ( Ariga and Saito, 2019 ; Jiang and Ariga, 2020 ), as well as music notation and space ( Fumarola et al, 2020 ).…”

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Effects of musical expertise on line section and line extension

Pei,

Xu,

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundThis study investigated whether music training led to better length estimation and/or rightward bias by comparing the performance of musicians (pianists) and non-musicians on performance of line sections and line extensions.MethodsOne hundred and sixteen participants, among them 62 musicians and 54 non-musicians, participated in the present study, completed line section and line extension task under three conditions: 1/2, 1/3 and 2/3.ResultsThe mixed repeated measures ANOVA analysis revealed a significant group × condition interaction, that the musicians were more accurate than non-musicians in all the line section tasks and showed no obvious pseudoneglect, while their overall performance on the line extension tasks was comparable to the non-musicians, and only performed more accurately in the 1/2 line extension condition.ConclusionThese findings indicated that there was a dissociation between the effects of music training on line section and line extension. This dissociation does not support the view that music training has a general beneficial effect on line estimation, and provides insight into a potentially important limit on the effects of music training on spatial cognition.

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Effects of musical expertise on line section and line extension

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Xu,

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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“…Intercultural research revealed that pitch labels are internally represented in a systematic spatial order and that the availability of space–pitch mapping may even be of prelinguistic nature 94–98 . In some rare cases (e.g., pitch–space synesthesia), this order may even reach explicitness, consisting of particularly unique pitch–location pairs 99,100 . Finally, in line with the dorsal stream function is the coactivation of motor commands during pitch labeling.…”

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“…[94][95][96][97][98] In some rare cases (e.g., pitch-space synesthesia), this order may even reach explicitness, consisting of particularly unique pitch-location pairs. 99,100 Finally, in line with the dorsal stream function is the coactivation of motor commands during pitch labeling. There is evidence that AP possessors not only rely on verbal information during pitch labeling but also on sensorimotor codes (e.g., specific vocalization or fingering unambiguously coupled to specific tone responses).…”

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The left dorsal stream causally mediates the tone labeling in absolute pitch

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Arnicane

Jäncke

et al. 2021

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Absolute pitch (AP) refers to the ability to effortlessly identify given pitches without any reference. Correlative evidence suggests that the left posterior dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is responsible for the process underlying pitch labeling in AP. Here, we measured the sight-reading performance of right-handed AP possessors and matched controls under cathodal and sham transcranial direct current stimulation of the left DLPFC. The participants were instructed to report notations as accurately and as fast as possible by playing with their right hand on a piano. The notations were simultaneously presented with distracting auditory stimuli that either matched or mismatched them in different semitone degrees. Unlike the controls, AP possessors revealed an interference effect in that they responded slower in mismatching conditions than in the matching one. Under cathodal stimulation, this interference effect disappeared. These findings confirm that the pitch-labeling process underlying AP occurs automatically and is largely nonsuppressible when triggered by tone exposure. The improvement of the AP possessors' sight-reading performances in response to the suppression of the left DLPFC using cathodal stimulation confirms a causal relationship between this brain structure and pitch labeling.

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“…Intercultural research revealed that pitch labels are internally represented in a spatial systematic order and that an availability of space-pitch mapping may even be of prelinguistic nature [90][91][92][93][94]. In some rare cases (e.g., pitch-space synesthesia), this order may even reach explicitness, consisting of particular unique pitch-location pairs [95,96]. Finally, in line with the "dorsal stream" function is the coactivation of motor commands during pitch labeling.…”

Section: Pitch Labeling: a Case For The "Dorsal Stream" Functionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The left dorsal stream causally mediates the tone labeling in absolute pitch

Rogenmoser

Arnicane

Jäncke

et al. 2020

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BackgroundAbsolute pitch (AP) refers to the ability of effortlessly identifying given pitches without the reliance on any reference pitch. Correlative evidence suggests that the left posterior dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is responsible for the process underlying pitch labeling in AP.ObjectiveHere, we aimed at investigating the causal relationship between the DLPFC and the pitch-labeling process underlying AP.MethodsTo address this, we measured sight-reading performance of right-handed AP possessors and matched control musicians (N =18 per sample) under cathodal and sham transcranial direct current stimulation of the left DLPFC. The participants were instructed to report visually presenting notations as accurately and fast as possible by playing with their right hand on a piano. The notations were simultaneously presented with distracting auditory stimuli that either matched or mismatched them in different semitone degrees.ResultsUnlike the control participants, the AP possessors revealed an interference effect in that they responded slower in mismatching conditions than in the matching one. Under cathodal stimulation, half of the time discrepancies between matching and mismatching conditions vanished; specifically, the ones with small up to moderate deviations.ConclusionsThese findings confirm that the pitch-labeling process underlying AP occurs automatically and is largely non-suppressible when triggered by tone exposure. The improvement of the AP possessors’ sight-reading performance in response to the suppression of the left DLPFC using cathodal stimulation confirms a causal relationship between this brain structure and pitch labeling.

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Musical space synesthesia: Automatic, explicit and conceptual connections between musical stimuli and space

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Effects of musical expertise on line section and line extension

Effects of musical expertise on line section and line extension

The left dorsal stream causally mediates the tone labeling in absolute pitch

The left dorsal stream causally mediates the tone labeling in absolute pitch

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