Symbolic and Motor Contributions to Vocal Imitation in Absolute Pitch

Hutka, Stefanie; Moreno, Sylvain

doi:10.1525/mp.2015.32.3.254

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“…There is evidence that AP possessors not only rely on verbal information during pitch labeling but also on sensorimotor codes (e.g., specific vocalization or fingering unambiguously coupled to specific tone responses). 33 Consistent with this framework and our findings, AP possessors show an interference when vocally imitating mistuned tones 101 and a stronger left hemispheric activation during the processing of auditory feedback for vocal motor control. 102 …”

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The left dorsal stream causally mediates the tone labeling in absolute pitch

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Jäncke

et al. 2021

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Absolute pitch (AP) refers to the ability to effortlessly identify given pitches without any reference. Correlative evidence suggests that the left posterior dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is responsible for the process underlying pitch labeling in AP. Here, we measured the sight-reading performance of right-handed AP possessors and matched controls under cathodal and sham transcranial direct current stimulation of the left DLPFC. The participants were instructed to report notations as accurately and as fast as possible by playing with their right hand on a piano. The notations were simultaneously presented with distracting auditory stimuli that either matched or mismatched them in different semitone degrees. Unlike the controls, AP possessors revealed an interference effect in that they responded slower in mismatching conditions than in the matching one. Under cathodal stimulation, this interference effect disappeared. These findings confirm that the pitch-labeling process underlying AP occurs automatically and is largely nonsuppressible when triggered by tone exposure. The improvement of the AP possessors' sight-reading performances in response to the suppression of the left DLPFC using cathodal stimulation confirms a causal relationship between this brain structure and pitch labeling.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

The left dorsal stream causally mediates the tone labeling in absolute pitch

Rogenmoser

Arnicane

Jäncke

et al. 2021

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…There is evidence that AP possessors not only rely on verbal information during pitch labeling but also on sensorimotor codes (e.g., specific vocalization or fingering unambiguously coupled to specific tone responses) [29]. Consistent with this framework and our findings, AP possessors show an interference when vocally imitating mistuned tones [97] and a stronger left hemispheric activation during the processing of auditory feedback for vocal motor control [98].…”

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The left dorsal stream causally mediates the tone labeling in absolute pitch

Rogenmoser

Arnicane

Jäncke

et al. 2020

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BackgroundAbsolute pitch (AP) refers to the ability of effortlessly identifying given pitches without the reliance on any reference pitch. Correlative evidence suggests that the left posterior dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is responsible for the process underlying pitch labeling in AP.ObjectiveHere, we aimed at investigating the causal relationship between the DLPFC and the pitch-labeling process underlying AP.MethodsTo address this, we measured sight-reading performance of right-handed AP possessors and matched control musicians (N =18 per sample) under cathodal and sham transcranial direct current stimulation of the left DLPFC. The participants were instructed to report visually presenting notations as accurately and fast as possible by playing with their right hand on a piano. The notations were simultaneously presented with distracting auditory stimuli that either matched or mismatched them in different semitone degrees.ResultsUnlike the control participants, the AP possessors revealed an interference effect in that they responded slower in mismatching conditions than in the matching one. Under cathodal stimulation, half of the time discrepancies between matching and mismatching conditions vanished; specifically, the ones with small up to moderate deviations.ConclusionsThese findings confirm that the pitch-labeling process underlying AP occurs automatically and is largely non-suppressible when triggered by tone exposure. The improvement of the AP possessors’ sight-reading performance in response to the suppression of the left DLPFC using cathodal stimulation confirms a causal relationship between this brain structure and pitch labeling.

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“…This suggests that AP possessors outperform non-AP possessors on such pitch memory tasks because they can remember a category label, not because they remember the fine-grained details of the pitch. In production, AP possessors are biased in their reproduction of mistuned pitches, such that they are more likely to produce a pitch that conforms to an in-tune note, particularly with longer intervals between hearing the note and producing the note (Hutchins, Hutka, & Moreno, 2015). To be clear, these kinds of results suggest that there is no difference in auditory sensory processing for AP and non-AP possessors, and further, there is no difference in longterm pitch memory between AP and non-AP possessors, at least when the pitches cannot be differentiated at the note category level.…”

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What the [bleep]? Enhanced absolute pitch memory for a 1000 Hz sine tone

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Many individuals are able to perceive when the tuning of familiar stimuli, such as popular music recordings, has been altered. This suggests a kind of ubiquitous pitch memory, though it is unclear how this ability differs across individuals with and without absolute pitch (AP) and whether it plays any role in AP. In the present study, we take advantage of a salient single frequency - the 1000Hz sine tone used to censor taboo words in broadcast media - to assess the nature of this kind of pitch memory across individuals with and without AP. We show that non-AP participants are accurate at selecting the correct version of the censor tone among incorrect versions shifted by either one or two semitones, though their accuracy was still below that of an AP population (Experiment 1). This suggests a benefit for AP listeners that could be due to the use of explicit note categories or greater amounts of musical training. However, AP possessors still outperformed all non-AP participants when incorrect versions of the censor tone were shifted within a note category, even when controlling for musical experience (Experiment 2). Experiment 3 demonstrated that AP listeners did not appear to possess a category label for the censor tone that could have helped them differentiate the censor tones used in Experiment 2. Overall, these results suggest that AP possessors may have better pitch memory, even when divorced from pitch labeling (note categories). As such, these results have implications for how AP may develop and be maintained.

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Symbolic and Motor Contributions to Vocal Imitation in Absolute Pitch

Cited by 5 publications

References 60 publications

The left dorsal stream causally mediates the tone labeling in absolute pitch

The left dorsal stream causally mediates the tone labeling in absolute pitch

The left dorsal stream causally mediates the tone labeling in absolute pitch

What the [bleep]? Enhanced absolute pitch memory for a 1000 Hz sine tone

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