Neural processing of musical timbre by musicians, nonmusicians, and musicians possessing absolute pitch

Crummer, Garry C.; Walton, Joseph P.; Wayman, John W.; Hantz, Edwin C.; Frisina, Robert D.

doi:10.1121/1.409840

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“…These subjects individually showed reduced P300s (see Figure 4). This finding correlates with several studies that have indicated a reduced P300 component in absolute pitch subjects during aural tasks (Klein et al, 1984;Hantz et al, 1992;Wayman et al, 1992;Crummer et al, 1994;Bischoff Renninger et al, 1995 --unpublished data;Johnston, 1994;Hantz et al, 1992;Wayman et al, 1992;Crummer et al, 1994;Bischoff Renninger et al, 2003). This may explain why the grand average of the P300 in the control group was smaller than the grand average of the P300 in the experimental group, even though the control subjects performed better overtly.…”

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The Processing of Pitch and Scale: An ERP Study of Musicians Trained Outside of the Western Musical System

Bischoff-Renninger¹,

Wilson²,

Donchin³

2006

Empirical Musicology Review

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The current study extends the efforts of Bischoff Renninger, Granot and Donchin (2003) to non-Western musical systems and focuses specifically on EventRelated Potential (ERP) responses to scalar deviations within the Javanese pélog scale by groups of musicians trained within the Western and Javanese systems. The principal aim is to ascertain whether results found in previous experiments may be obtained crossculturally. Participants include five subjects trained in the Western system only (control group) and five subjects trained in both the Western and Javanese systems (experimental group). Tasks include identifying scalar deviations within the Western diatonic scale, identifying scalar deviations within the Javanese pèlog scale, and identifying target letters in a visual control task. ERP and overt behavioral responses are recorded. Results show significant differences between group responses to diatonic and Javanese scale conditions. Interesting results also arise in terms of how tones and intervals in the different scales are conceptualized by subjects in both groups. Control subjects especially tend to assimilate pélog scale intervals to intervals in the Western equaltempered scale.

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The Processing of Pitch and Scale: An ERP Study of Musicians Trained Outside of the Western Musical System

Bischoff-Renninger¹,

Wilson²,

Donchin³

2006

Empirical Musicology Review

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“…Hence, the present activations cannot just be due to the processing of auditory oddballs or to the mere processing of complex sounds. With this respect, it is highly probable that the embeddedness of a deviant acoustic event in a complex, rule-based linguistic or musical context is a prerequisite for the present activations (for studies investigating the neural mechanisms of timbre processing see also Samson and Zatorre, 1993;Auzou et al, 1995;Jones et al, 1998;Toivianinen et al, 1998;Tervaniemi et al, 1997;Platel et al, 1997;Crummer et al, 1994).…”

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Bach Speaks: A Cortical “Language-Network” Serves the Processing of Music

2002

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The aim of the present study was the investigation of neural correlates of music processing with fMRI. Chord sequences were presented to the participants, infrequently containing unexpected musical events. These events activated the areas of Broca and Wernicke, the superior temporal sulcus, Heschl's gyrus, both planum polare and planum temporale, as well as the anterior superior insular cortices. Some of these brain structures have previously been shown to be involved in music processing, but the cortical network comprising all these structures has up to now been thought to be domain-specific for language processing. To what extent this network might also be activated by the processing of non-linguistic information has remained unknown. The present fMRI-data reveal that the human brain employs this neuronal network also for the processing of musical information, suggesting that the cortical network known to support language processing is less domain-specific than previously believed. © 2002 Elsevier Science (USA)

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“…A few electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoelectroencephalography (MEG) studies have focused on the effect of musical training on timbre processing (Pantev, Roberts, Schulz, Engelien, & Ross, 2001;Pantev, Oostenveld, Engelien, Ross, Roberts, & Hoke, 1998;Crummer, Walton, Wayman, Hantz, & Frisina, 1994). In a timbre discrimination task, the rapidity of timbre processing as measured with the P3 latency was faster in musicians, especially in those with absolute pitch (Crummer et al, 1994).…”

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Separate Neural Processing of Timbre Dimensions in Auditory Sensory Memory

Caclin

Brattico

Tervaniemi

et al. 2006

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

101

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Abstract& Timbre is a multidimensional perceptual attribute of complex tones that characterizes the identity of a sound source. Our study explores the representation in auditory sensory memory of three timbre dimensions (acoustically related to attack time, spectral centroid, and spectrum fine structure), using the mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the auditory event-related potential. MMN is elicited by a discriminable change in a sound sequence and reflects the detection of the discrepancy between the current stimulus and traces in auditory sensory memory. The stimuli used in the present study were carefully controlled synthetic tones. MMNs were recorded after changes along each of the three timbre dimensions and their combinations. Additivity of unidimensional MMNs and dipole modeling results suggest partially separate MMN generators for different timbre dimensions, reflecting their mainly separate processing in auditory sensory memory. The results expand to timbre dimensions a property of separation of the representation in sensory memory that has already been reported between basic perceptual attributes (pitch, loudness, duration, and location) of sound sources. &

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Neural processing of musical timbre by musicians, nonmusicians, and musicians possessing absolute pitch

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The Processing of Pitch and Scale: An ERP Study of Musicians Trained Outside of the Western Musical System

The Processing of Pitch and Scale: An ERP Study of Musicians Trained Outside of the Western Musical System

Bach Speaks: A Cortical “Language-Network” Serves the Processing of Music

Separate Neural Processing of Timbre Dimensions in Auditory Sensory Memory

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