Musicogenic epilepsy with ictal single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT): could these cases contribute to our knowledge of music processing?

Genç, Bülent; Genç, Emine; Taştekin, Güngör; Iihan, N

doi:10.1046/j.1468-1331.2001.00190.x

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“…This ERP result was interpreted as a facilitated attention allocation and memory updating processes when hearing music of a familiar style. In a musicogenic epilepsy case study, Genc et al (2001) showed that only Turkish music was able to trigger seizures in this 48-year-old Turkish female but not other musical styles, e.g., Western music. Those two studies suggest distinct neural substrates engaged in the processing of culturally familiar music in comparison to unfamiliar music.…”

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The perception of musical phrase structure: A cross-cultural ERP study

2006

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Electroencephalography (EEG) was used in a cross-cultural music study investigating phrase boundary perception. Chinese and German musicians performed a cultural categorization task under Chinese and Western music listening conditions. Western music was the major subject for both groups of musicians, while Chinese music was familiar to Chinese subjects only. By manipulating the presence of pauses between two phrases in the biphrasal melodies, EEG correlates for the perception of phrase boundaries were found in both groups under both music listening conditions. Between 450 and 600 ms, the music CPS (closure positive shift), which had been found in earlier studies with a false tone detection task, was replicated for the more global categorization task and for all combinations of subject group and musical style. At short latencies (100 and 450 ms post phrase boundary offset), EEG correlates varied as a function of musical styles and subject group. Both bottom-up (style properties of the music) and top-down (acculturation of the subjects) information interacted during this early processing stage. IntroductionMusic is a culturally specific phenomenon, which is certainly determined by ethnic background, social environment and traditions. However, the question to what extent the ability to understand and appreciate music is culturally dependent is still controversial. Ethnomusicologists usually assume that extensive experience of music within its cultural context is essential for its basic structural principles to be understood (Blacking, 1973). Lynch and Eilers (1992) explored musical tuning perception in infancy and adulthood and found that adult's perception of musical tuning was culturally specific, and infants between 6 and 12 months of age started to show the same culturally specific performance as adults did. In the same line, Drake and El Heni (2003) proved that acculturation, i.e., the passive exposure to a particular type of music since birth, influenced the perception and cognition of music. On the other hand, some psychological studies have proved the existence of universal, not culturally dependent, aspects of music perception (Castellano et al., 1984;Krumhansl, 1995Krumhansl, , 2000. Drake and Bertrand (2001) reviewed a number of rhythm perception and production studies and concluded that some aspects of temporal processing in music might be universal, in the sense that they function in a similar manner irrespective of an individual's cultural exposure and experience. Likewise, in a study of the cross-cultural emotion perception in music,

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The perception of musical phrase structure: A cross-cultural ERP study

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“…These patients may experience unprovoked seizures as well, whereas others have exclusively music-induced seizures [41,42].…”

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“…Commonly, the inciting music is reported to induce a specific emotion in the affected listener, such as melancholy or sentimentality, whereas others may not be aware of a specific emotional trigger [42]. In some cases, seizures may initially occur exclusively in response to music and subsequently generalize to other auditory stimuli, such as spoken voice or nonmusical sounds [41,45].…”

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Amusia and musicogenic epilepsy

Sparr

2003

Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep

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Amusia and musicogenic epilepsy are clinical disorders that provide a window into the localization of music in the brain. Classic clinical studies of patients with these disorders, coupled with more recent studies employing modern neuroimaging and sophisticated neuropsychologic paradigms, have converged in helping to elucidate the complex neural systems that are utilized in decoding music. The notion of cerebral dominance for music has been replaced by a concept of modular but interconnected networks that have wide bilateral localization in the brain and that are molded both by genetics and experience. These disorders also provide insight into the important interface between music and emotion.

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“…Thus researchers concluded that hearing music of a culturally familiar style increased the allocation of attention resources during memory updating processes [1] . And a musicogenic epilepsy case showed only Turkish music triggered seizures in Turkish subjects but not other musical styles [10] .…”

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Differential cognitive responses to guqin music and piano music in Chinese subjects: an event-related potential study

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Objective To compare the cognitive effects of guqin (the oldest Chinese instrument) music and piano music. Methods Behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) data in a standard two-stimulus auditory oddball task were recorded and analyzed. Results This study replicated the previous results of culture-familiar music effect on Chinese subjects: the greater P300 amplitude in frontal areas in a culture-familiar music environment. At the same time, the difference between guqin music and piano music was observed in N1 and later positive complex (LPC: including P300 and P500): a relatively higher participation of right anterior-temporal areas in Chinese subjects. Conclusion The results suggest that the special features of ERP responses to guqin music are the outcome of Chinese tonal language environments given the similarity between Guqin's tones and Mandarin lexical tones.

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Musicogenic epilepsy with ictal single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT): could these cases contribute to our knowledge of music processing?

Cited by 38 publications

References 8 publications

The perception of musical phrase structure: A cross-cultural ERP study

The perception of musical phrase structure: A cross-cultural ERP study

Amusia and musicogenic epilepsy

Differential cognitive responses to guqin music and piano music in Chinese subjects: an event-related potential study

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