Perception of musical melody and rhythm as influenced by native language experience

Zhang, Linjun; Xie, Shiyi; Liu, Yu; Shu, Hua; Zhang, Yang

doi:10.1121/10.0001179

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“…In the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia, Mandarin listeners discriminated pitch more accurately than did Dutch listeners (Chen et al, 2016). In the melody subtest of the wellvalidated Musical Ear Test, Mandarin listeners scored higher than Japanese listeners (Zhang et al, 2020). Collectively, the above studies have suggested that speaking a tone language sharpens musical pitch sensitivity.…”

Section: Language-to-music Transfermentioning

confidence: 89%

“…This seemed to indicate that although tone language experience enhanced the subcortical processing of musical pitch, this neural enhancement did not yield any behavioral perceptual advantage. However, the results should be interpreted with caution given (a) the small sample size (n = 11 per group) and (b) the preponderance of studies showing that Cantonese/Mandarin non-musicians outperformed Dutch/English/French/Japanese non-musicians on behavioral measures of musical pitch perception (Wong et al, 2012;Asaridou and McQueen, 2013;Bidelman et al, 2013;Chen et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2020). It remained unclear whether enhanced neural encoding of musical pitch could explain the behavioral advantage on musical pitch perception.…”

Section: Language-to-music Transfermentioning

confidence: 93%

“…This effect, known as music-to-language transfer, 1 largely undergirds theoretical models of cross-domain plasticity (Patel, 2011(Patel, , 2012(Patel, , 2014Krishnan et al, 2012). Interestingly, there is emerging evidence of language-to-music transfer (Bidelman et al, 2013;Chen et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2020). These studies generally showed that tone language experience enhanced musical pitch perception among non-musicians.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, the OPERA hypothesis does not embody the interaction between musicianship and language experience, presumably because very few studies systematically manipulated both variables together (Cooper and Wang, 2012;Ngo et al, 2016;Maggu et al, 2018b). Apart from pitch, rhythm is also a common acoustic feature of music and speech (Zhang et al, 2020). As such, Patel (2012) called for future studies to extend the OPERA hypothesis from pitch to rhythm.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Musicianship Influences Language Effect on Musical Pitch Perception

Choi

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Given its practical implications, the effect of musicianship on language learning has been vastly researched. Interestingly, growing evidence also suggests that language experience can facilitate music perception. However, the precise nature of this facilitation is not fully understood. To address this research gap, I investigated the interactive effect of language and musicianship on musical pitch and rhythmic perception. Cantonese and English listeners, each divided into musician and non-musician groups, completed the Musical Ear Test and the Raven’s 2 Progressive Matrices. Essentially, an interactive effect of language and musicianship was found on musical pitch but not rhythmic perception. Consistent with previous studies, Cantonese language experience appeared to facilitate musical pitch perception. However, this facilitatory effect was only present among the non-musicians. Among the musicians, Cantonese language experience did not offer any perceptual advantage. The above findings reflect that musicianship influences the effect of language on musical pitch perception. Together with the previous findings, the new findings offer two theoretical implications for the OPERA hypothesis—bi-directionality and mechanisms through which language experience and musicianship interact in different domains.

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Section: Language-to-music Transfermentioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Language-to-music Transfermentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Musicianship Influences Language Effect on Musical Pitch Perception

Choi

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…In this period, musical abilities are related to attention, memory, and the acquisition of musical information develop ( Trehub, 2001 ). In addition, language learning has a transfer effect to music learning, and native speakers of different languages have different musical abilities ( Zhang et al, 2020 ). Thus, recruiting subjects from different cultures may be disadvantageous to our study of the influence of training in Chinese and Western music styles on neural plasticity.…”

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confidence: 99%

Chinese and Western Musical Training Impacts the Circuit in Auditory and Reward Systems

Guo

Peng²,

Ding

et al. 2021

Front. Neurosci.

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Previous studies have provided evidence about the brain plasticity effects of musical training, however, the issue of how expertise in music styles induced by Chinese or Western musical training affects neuroplasticity and reward responses has been less considered, especially for subjects of Chinese origin. In this work, 16 musicians who trained in the Western music style (Western-trained musicians) and 18 musicians who trained in the Chinese music style (Chinese-trained musicians) were recruited as the musician group for the experiment, while 15 non-musicians were recruited as the control group. Using a paradigm that consisted of listening to Chinese and Western music and measurements using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, we found that Chinese-trained musicians activated the bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG) when listening to music, while Western-trained musicians activated the left STG. In addition, under the condition of listening to music with Chinese style, Chinese-trained musicians have a stronger functional connection in the circuit of the auditory and reward system than Western-trained musicians. The finding is opposite under the condition of listening to music with Western style. Interestingly, it seems that the circuit of Chinese-trained musicians is partial to the right STG, while Western-trained musicians show the opposite, i.e., a tendency toward the left STG. The influence of different music styles on experienced musicians is reflected by the functional activities and connections between the auditory system and the reward system. This outcome indicates that training in Chinese music style or Western music style affects the strategies of musicians when listening to music. Musical characteristics such as rhythm, melody and cultural attributes play an important role in this process. These findings, which provide evidence for functional neuroplasticity based on musical training, can enrich our insights into the musical brain.

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Frontal and cerebellar contributions to pitch and rhythm processing: a TMS study

Picazio,

Magnani,

Koch

et al. 2024

Brain Struct Funct

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Music represents a salient stimulus for the brain with two key features: pitch and rhythm. Few data are available on cognitive analysis of music listening in musically naïve healthy participants. Beyond auditory cortices, neuroimaging data showed the involvement of prefrontal cortex in pitch and of cerebellum in rhythm. The present study is aimed at investigating the role of prefrontal and cerebellar cortices in both pitch and rhythm processing. The performance of fteen participants without musical expertise was investigated in a listening comparative task. The task required to decide whether two eightelement melodic sequences were equal or different according to pitch or rhythm characteristics. Before the task, we applied a protocol of continuous theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation interfering with the activity of the left cerebellar hemisphere (lCb), right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG), or vertex (Czcontrol site), in a within cross-over design. Our results showed that participants were more accurate in pitch than rhythm tasks. Importantly, following rIFG or lCb relative to Cz stimulations, the reaction times were slower and with no difference in both tasks. Notably, no lateralized motor stimulation effect was observed. The present ndings point to the role of the fronto-cerebellar network in music processing with a single mechanism for both pitch and rhythm patterns.

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Perception of musical melody and rhythm as influenced by native language experience

Cited by 25 publications

References 27 publications

Musicianship Influences Language Effect on Musical Pitch Perception

Musicianship Influences Language Effect on Musical Pitch Perception

Chinese and Western Musical Training Impacts the Circuit in Auditory and Reward Systems

Frontal and cerebellar contributions to pitch and rhythm processing: a TMS study

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