Semantic and episodic memory of music are subserved by distinct neural networks

Platel, Hervé; Baron, Jean‐Claude; Desgranges, Béatrice; Bernard, Frédéric; Eustache, Francis

doi:10.1016/s1053-8119(03)00287-8

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“…Janata [2002] concluded that that ventromedial prefrontal cortex is a crucial node for binding musical elements with memories within a broader melody-responsive network. This notion fits PET studies in which ventromedial prefrontal cortex was active in evaluation of consonance/dissonance in chords accompanying melodies [Blood et al, 1999] or in familarity judgments of sets of acoustic stimuli [Platel et al, 2003]. The activation related to pattern deviance in professional musicians in our study supports the hypothesis of tonal binding in ventromedial frontal cortex.…”

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Neural correlates of pre‐attentive processing of pattern deviance in professional musicians

Habermeyer¹,

Herdener²,

Esposito³

et al. 2009

Human Brain Mapping

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Pre-attentive registration of aberrations in predictable sound patterns is attributed to the temporal cortex. However, electrophysiology suggests that frontal areas become more important when deviance complexity increases. To play an instrument in an ensemble, professional musicians have to rely on the ability to detect even slight deviances from expected musical patterns and therefore have highly trained aural skills. Here, we aimed to identify the neural correlates of experience-driven plasticity related to the processing of complex sound features. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging in combination with an event-related oddball paradigm and compared brain activity in professional musicians and non-musicians during pre-attentive processing of melodic contour variations. The melodic pattern consisted of a sequence of five tones each lasting 50 ms interrupted by silent interstimulus intervals of 50 ms. Compared to non-musicians, the professional musicians showed enhanced activity in the left middle and superior temporal gyri, the left inferior frontal gyrus and in the right ventromedial prefrontal cortex in response to pattern deviation. This differential brain activity pattern was correlated with behaviorally tested musical aptitude. Our results thus support an experience-related role of the left temporal cortex in fast melodic contour processing and suggest involvement of the prefrontal cortex.

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Neural correlates of pre‐attentive processing of pattern deviance in professional musicians

Habermeyer¹,

Herdener²,

Esposito³

et al. 2009

Human Brain Mapping

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“…Musical memory clearly has many related aspects. Different types of musicrelated memory appear to involve different brain regions, for instance when lyrics of a song are remembered, or autobiographical events are recalled associated with a particular piece of music (Zatorre et al, 1996;Halpern and Zatorre, 1999;Platel et al, 2003;Satoh et al, 2006;Plailly et al, 2007;Watanabe et al, 2008;Brattico et al, 2011). The experimental design of the present study is intended to provide averaging over particular musical associations, to provide a simple comparison between unknown, recently-heard and long-known musical passages.…”

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“…Attempts are often made to characterize musical memory in terms of established memory categories such as episodic/semantic, short-term/long-term, implicit/explicit, which are generally considered to be supported by different anatomical brain networks. For example it has been shown in a PET study that the underlying brain processes differ for semantic and episodic memory aspects of music, suggesting that they are based on two distinct neural networks (Platel et al, 2003). The anatomy of episodic musical memory has further been studied in a functional MRI experiment, using autobiographically relevant longknown musical pieces, which showed a crucial role for medial prefrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex, and for areas within the superior temporal sulcus and superior temporal gyrus (Janata, 2009).…”

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Why musical memory can be preserved in advanced Alzheimer’s disease

Jacobsen

Stelzer

Fritz

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) for a scientific commentary on this article.Musical memory is considered to be partly independent from other memory systems. In Alzheimer's disease and different types of dementia, musical memory is surprisingly robust, and likewise for brain lesions affecting other kinds of memory. However, the mechanisms and neural substrates of musical memory remain poorly understood. In a group of 32 normal young human subjects (16 male and 16 female, mean age of 28.0 AE 2.2 years), we performed a 7 T functional magnetic resonance imaging study of brain responses to music excerpts that were unknown, recently known (heard an hour before scanning), and long-known. We used multivariate pattern classification to identify brain regions that encode long-term musical memory. The results showed a crucial role for the caudal anterior cingulate and the ventral pre-supplementary motor area in the neural encoding of long-known as compared with recently known and unknown music. In the second part of the study, we analysed data of three essential Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in a region of interest derived from our musical memory findings (caudal anterior cingulate cortex and ventral pre-supplementary motor area) in 20 patients with Alzheimer's disease (10 male and 10 female, mean age of 68.9 AE 9.0 years) and 34 healthy control subjects (14 male and 20 female, mean age of 68.1 AE 7.2 years). Interestingly, the regions identified to encode musical memory corresponded to areas that showed substantially minimal cortical atrophy (as measured with magnetic resonance imaging), and minimal disruption of glucose-metabolism (as measured with 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography), as compared to the rest of the brain. However, amyloid-b deposition (as measured with 18 F-flobetapir positron emission tomography) within the currently observed regions of interest was not substantially less than in the rest of the brain, which suggests that the regions of interest were still in a very early stage of the expected course of biomarker development in these regions (amyloid accumulation ! hypometabolism ! cortical atrophy) and therefore relatively well preserved. Given the observed overlap of musical memory regions with areas that are relatively spared in Alzheimer's disease, the current findings may thus explain the surprising preservation of musical memory in this neurodegenerative disease.

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“…3 La cognición musical es un fenómeno complejo, pues al igual que otros procesos cognitivos, requiere del correcto funcionamiento de varios componentes de análisis de la información percibida. Recientemente se ha propuesto un modelo 4 que describe el procesamiento de la música por medio de estos componentes, los cuales se corresponden con los elementos estructurales de la música occidental 5 y han sido asociados, con mayor o menor evidencia, a estructuras cerebrales específicas [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] (cuadro 1). En este modelo, la información de entrada es procesada por dos rutas perceptuales diferentes: una para el procesamiento de los componentes melódicos del flujo acústico, y otra para el procesamiento de sus características temporales.…”

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Exploración de las propiedades psicométricas de la Batería Montreal de Evaluación de Amusia en una muestra de sujetos con epilepsia de lóbulo temporal

Toledo-Fernández

Cruz

2015

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BackgroundThe Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA) is a newly developed instrument to assess music perception and memory, associated to temporal lobe functioning. The non-symptomatic temporal lobe epilepsy is a prevalent condition in Mexico, and it gives an opportunity to test the MBEA, considering the fact that epileptic seizures can cause neuropsychological impairment according to lobar localization and hemispherical lateralization of the epileptogenic foci. ObjectiveTo explore the psychometric and diagnostic properties of the MBEA. MethodTwo non-probabilistic samples of 31 control subjects and 22 cases with non-symptomatic temporal lobe epilepsy were assessed with the MBEA. Data from the original validation were used to compare with the control group. ResultsAnalysis with t test showed significantly lower performances in the case group relative to controls, and a general lower performance of controls compared to the norm. There was no significant difference in performance between cases with left epileptogenic foci and cases with right epileptogenic foci. ROC curve analysis showed questionable properties of sensitivity and specificity in the MBEA. Discussion and conclusionImpairments in music perception were found in cases, although theoretical inconsistences with respect to relation between impaired functions were also detected. The performance of the control group relative to the norm aims to the continuation of the validation process, considering cultural differences. The MBEA seems to be a poor measure in terms of sensibility and specificity for the detection of amusic impairments in subjects with non-symptomatic temporal lobe epilepsy, and its utility for determining hemispheric lateralization of epileptogenic foci remains uncertain.

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Semantic and episodic memory of music are subserved by distinct neural networks

Cited by 192 publications

References 47 publications

Neural correlates of pre‐attentive processing of pattern deviance in professional musicians

Neural correlates of pre‐attentive processing of pattern deviance in professional musicians

Why musical memory can be preserved in advanced Alzheimer’s disease

Exploración de las propiedades psicométricas de la Batería Montreal de Evaluación de Amusia en una muestra de sujetos con epilepsia de lóbulo temporal

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