Perception of phrase structure in music

Knösche, Thomas R.; Neuhaus, Christiane; Haueisen, Jens; Alter, Kai; Maess, Burkhard; Witte, Otto W.; Friederici, Angela D.

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“…This component was observed between 450 ms and 600 ms post pause offset and closely resembles the music CPS found in previous studies (Knösche et al, 2005;Neuhaus et al, 2006).…”

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“…The current study not only replicated the CPS finding for Western music (Knösche et al, 2005) but demonstrated a CPS in a cross-cultural setting with a categorization task. In the work of Knösche et al (2005), subjects were asked to detect rarely occurring wrong notes in the presented musical pieces.…”

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“…Later studies (Pannekamp et al, 2005;Steinhauer and Friederici, 2001) added more evidence to the notion that indeed prosodic rather than syntactic cues give rise to the CPS. Most interestingly, the investigation of phrase perception in music (Knösche et al, 2005) yielded EEG and MEG correlates for the perception of musical phrase boundaries, which showed a similar timing and topography as the CPS found in language studies. In a follow-up study (Neuhaus et al, 2006), the length of the pause and the length of the phrase-final tone before the pause were identified as the most important markers for the perception of the phrase boundaries.…”

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“…Compared to the CPS found in language studies, the CPS in music (Knösche et al, 2005;Neuhaus et al, 2006) exhibits a different latency but a similar amplitude and topography. The difference in latency for the CPS component between language and music studies was interpreted by the different phrase boundary cues in language compared to music, such as lengthened prefinal syllables and changed F0 contours (Knösche et al, 2005). The similar topography and mode of elicitation make it reasonable to draw the conclusion that both components might reflect related cognitive processes.…”

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

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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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“…This component was observed between 450 ms and 600 ms post pause offset and closely resembles the music CPS found in previous studies (Knösche et al, 2005;Neuhaus et al, 2006).…”

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“…In the present study, the CPS is interpreted as reflecting the closure of an IPh. The CPS component has also been observed in relation to musical phrasing [8] and the perception of prosodic boundaries in speech-like materials lacking segmental content [9].…”

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Prosodic processing at the sentence level in infants

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We investigate whether 8 -month-old infants can detect prosodic cues relevant in sentence structuring. We recorded event-related potentials to examine online responses to the processing of prosodic boundaries. Prior studies in adults have validated the closure positive shift as re£ecting prosodic boundary perception during speech processing. The current study shows that in the event-related potentials of 8 -month-olds, a closure positive shift is elicited in relation to the prosodic boundaries in speech, suggesting that these infants are able to structure speech input into prosodic units on a neurophysiological basis similar to that seen in adults. A delay in latency of the infant closure positive shift, however, suggests that children's exploitation of prosodic boundaries for the segmentation of the speech stream is still developing. NeuroReport 17:675^678

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Cross‐cultural music phrase processing: An fMRI study

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The current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural basis of musical phrase boundary processing during the perception of music from native and non-native cultures. German musicians performed a cultural categorization task while listening to phrased Western (native) and Chinese (non-native) musical excerpts as well as modified versions of these, where the impression of phrasing has been reduced by removing the phrase boundary marking pause (henceforth called "unphrased"). Bilateral planum temporale was found to be associated with an increased difficulty of identifying phrase boundaries in unphrased Western melodies. A network involving frontal and parietal regions showed increased activation for the phrased condition with the orbital part of left inferior frontal gyrus presumably reflecting working memory aspects of the temporal integration between phrases, and the middle frontal gyrus and intraparietal sulcus probably reflecting attention processes. Areas more active in the culturally familiar, native (Western) condition included, in addition to the left planum temporale and right ventro-medial prefrontal cortex, mainly the bilateral motor regions. These latter results are interpreted in light of sensorimotor integration. Regions with increased signal for the unfamiliar, non-native music style (Chinese) included a right lateralized network of angular gyrus and the middle frontal gyrus, possibly reflecting higher demands on attention systems, and the right posterior insula suggesting higher loads on basic auditory processing.

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Perception of phrase structure in music

Cited by 108 publications

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

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

Prosodic processing at the sentence level in infants

Cross‐cultural music phrase processing: An fMRI study

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