Anomia for musical entities

Belfi, Amy M.; Kasdan, Anna; Tranel, Daniel

doi:10.1080/02687038.2017.1409871

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“…Although there are certainly types of studies where other musical stimuli would be more suitable, the Famous Melodies Stimulus Set has a wide range of applications for the study of cognitive functions such as memory and language. As has been shown in prior work, these melodies could be used to investigate memory for melodies in dementia (Cuddy & Duffin, 2005;Hsieh et al, 2011) or conceptual and lexical retrieval in lesion patient populations (Belfi et al, 2019;Belfi & Tranel, 2014). These stimuli could be particularly useful in other neuropsychological studies, for example studies examining singing behavior in persons with aphasia (Kasdan & Kiran, 2018).…”

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“…Our initial stimulus set consisted of 52 melodies used in our previous work (Belfi & Tranel, 2014). These stimuli consist of familiar melodies such as "Happy Birthday" and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" (see Belfi, Kasdan, & Tranel (2019) for the full list of the original 52 melodies). While this initial stimulus set contained a large number of famous melodies, we sought to exhaust any additional possible melodies that may have been missed in our prior study.…”

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“…To this end, we collected ratings on two emotional categories that have been frequently used in prior research: valence and arousal. As it has been hypothesized that melodies have a later age of acquisition than other categories of stimuli (Belfi et al, 2019), we also collected ratings on age of acquisition. Given that the focus of this stimulus set is highly familiar melodies, we collected ratings on familiarity.…”

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“…Other neuropsychological studies have used famous melodies to investigate lexical and conceptual retrieval in patients with focal brain damage. For example, prior work indicates that patients with left temporal polar damage are impaired at naming famous persons, famous landmarks, and famous melodies, suggesting that the left temporal pole is a "heteromodal" convergence region for semantically unique items (Belfi, Kasdan, & Tranel, 2019;Belfi & Tranel, 2014;Schneider, Heskje, Bruss, Tranel, & Belfi, 2018). Famous melodies have also been used to identify apperceptive agnosia for music in patients with temporal lobe lesions (Ayotte, Peretz, Rousseau, Bard, & Bojanowski, 2000;Baird, Walker, Biggs, & Robinson, 2014).…”

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The famous melodies stimulus set

Belfi

Kacirek

2020

Behav Res

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Famous musical melodies, such as "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and "Hot Cross Buns," are frequently used in psychological research. Such melodies have been used to assess the degree of cognitive impairments in various neurological disorders, and to investigate differences between "naming" vs. "knowing." Despite their utility as an experimental stimulus, there is currently no standardized, openly available set of famous musical melodies based on a United States population, as prior work on the topic has primarily relied on creating stimuli in an ad hoc manner. Therefore, the goal of the present work was to create a set of famous musical melodies. Here, we describe the development of the Famous Melodies Stimulus Set, a set of 107 melodies. We provide normative data for the melodies on five dimensions: familiarity, age of acquisition, emotional valence, emotional arousal, and naming ability. Participants (N = 397) rated the melodies on these five variables, validating that most melodies were highly familiar and reliably named. While familiarity ratings were skewed, all other rating scales covered a relatively broad range, allowing for researchers to select melodies for future work based on particular attributes.

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2020

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“…Damasio et al, 1996), and auditory stimuli such as voices (Papagno, Mattavelli, Casarotti, Bello, & Gainotti, 2017; E. J. Waldron, Manzel, & Tranel, 2014) and musical melodies (Ayotte, Peretz, Rousseau, Bard, & Bojanowski, 2000; Belfi, Kasdan, & Tranel, 2017; Belfi & Tranel, 2014; J. K. Johnson et al, 2011).…”

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The left temporal pole is a convergence region mediating the relation between names and semantic knowledge for unique entities: Further evidence from a “recognition-from-name” study in neurological patients

Schneider

Heskje

Bruss

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Cortex

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Prior research has implicated the left temporal pole (LTP) as a critical region for naming semantically unique items, including famous faces, landmarks, and musical melodies. Most studies have used a confrontation naming paradigm, where a participant is presented with a stimulus and asked to retrieve its name. We have proposed previously that the LTP functions as a two-way, bidirectional convergence region brokering between conceptual knowledge and proper names for unique entities. Under this hypothesis, damage to the LTP should result in a “two way” impairment: (1) Defective proper name retrieval when presented with a unique stimulus (as shown in prior work); and (2) Defective concept retrieval when presented with a proper name. Here, we directly tested the second prediction (prediction #2) using a “recognition-from-name” paradigm. Participants were patients with LTP damage, brain-damaged comparisons with damage outside the LTP, and healthy comparisons. Participants were presented with names of famous persons (e.g., “Marilyn Monroe”), landmarks (e.g., “Leaning Tower of Pisa”), or melodies (e.g., “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”) and were asked to provide conceptual knowledge about each. We found that individuals with damage to the LTP were significantly impaired at conceptual knowledge retrieval when given names of famous people and landmarks (this finding did not hold for melodies). This outcome supports the theory that the LTP is a bidirectional convergence region for proper naming, but suggests that melody retrieval may rely on processes different from those supported by the LTP.

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Understanding functional brain reorganization for naturalistic piano playing in novice pianists

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Gaca,

Droździel

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J of Neuroscience Research

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Learning to play the piano is a unique complex task, integrating multiple sensory modalities and higher order cognitive functions. Longitudinal neuroimaging studies on adult novice musicians show training‐related functional changes in music perception tasks. The reorganization of brain activity while actually playing an instrument was studied only on a very short time frame of a single fMRI session, and longer interventions have not yet been performed. Thus, our aim was to investigate the dynamic complexity of functional brain reorganization while playing the piano within the first half year of musical training. We scanned 24 novice keyboard learners (female, 18–23 years old) using fMRI while they played increasingly complex musical pieces after 1, 6, 13, and 26 weeks of training. Playing music evoked responses bilaterally in the auditory, inferior frontal, and supplementary motor areas, and the left sensorimotor cortex. The effect of training over time, however, invoked widespread changes encompassing the right sensorimotor cortex, cerebellum, superior parietal cortex, anterior insula and hippocampus, among others. As the training progressed, the activation of these regions decreased while playing music. Post hoc analysis revealed region‐specific time‐courses for independent auditory and motor regions of interest. These results suggest that while the primary sensory, motor, and frontal regions are associated with playing music, the training decreases the involvement of higher order cognitive control and integrative regions, and basal ganglia. Moreover, training might affect distinct brain regions in different ways, providing evidence in favor of the dynamic nature of brain plasticity.

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Anomia for musical entities

Cited by 12 publications

References 91 publications

The famous melodies stimulus set

The famous melodies stimulus set

The left temporal pole is a convergence region mediating the relation between names and semantic knowledge for unique entities: Further evidence from a “recognition-from-name” study in neurological patients

Understanding functional brain reorganization for naturalistic piano playing in novice pianists

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