Auditory-Processing Malleability

Kraus, Nina; Banai, Karen

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2007.00485.x

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“…A number of studies have examined music and language by studying children during language acquisition. There is evidence that low‐level auditory processing at the level of the brain stem is related to literacy skills in children; those individuals who respond to speech sounds in an early or intermediate fashion display higher achievement in reading than those individuals who are delayed in their responses (Abrams et al 2006; Banai et al 2005; Kraus & Banai 2007). Although it stands to reason that auditory processing in the linguistic domain would be related to literacy, there are also recent findings that link musical discrimination abilities to reading ability.…”

Section: Music and Languagementioning

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“…Historically, it was believed that auditory perception was largely the result of automatic, bottom‐up processes. It is now believed that auditory object formation and music perception are the consequence of dynamic, interrelated processes involving cortical and subcortical regions, reflecting both bottom‐up and top‐down influences (Kraus & Banai 2007). In particular, the auditory system has shown itself to be plastic: What we think of as “auditory” cortex can become remapped for visual input in the congenitally deaf (Neville et al 1998; Petitto et al 2000).…”

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Current Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music

Levitin

Tirovolas

2009

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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The study of music perception and cognition is one of the oldest topics in experimental psychology. The last 20 years have seen an increased interest in understanding the functional neuroanatomy of music processing in humans, using a variety of technologies including fMRI, PET, ERP, MEG, and lesion studies. We review current findings in the context of a rich intellectual history of research, organized by the cognitive systems underlying different aspects of human musical behavior. We pay special attention to the perception of components of musical processing, musical structure, laterality effects, cultural issues, links between music and movement, emotional processing, expertise, and the amusias. Current trends are noted, such as the increased interest in evolutionary origins of music and comparisons of music and language. The review serves to demonstrate the important role that music can play in informing broad theories of higher order cognitive processes such as music in humans.

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Section: Music and Languagementioning

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Section: Expertisementioning

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Current Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music

Levitin

Tirovolas

2009

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Section: Clinical Correlations and Utility Of The Auditory Brainstem mentioning

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“…Auditory brainstem function has been linked to language impairment (Banai, Nicol, Zecker & Kraus, 2005; Cunningham, Nicol, Zecker, Bradlow & Kraus, 2001; Johnson, Nicol, Zecker & Kraus, 2007; King et al ., 2002; Wible, Nicol & Kraus, 2004, 2005) and also to auditory expertise, such that speech‐evoked brainstem responses have been shown to be shaped and enhanced by lifelong linguistic (Krishnan, Xu, Gandour & Cariani, 2004, 2005; Xu, Krishnan & Gandour, 2006) and musical experience (Musacchia, Sams, Skoe & Kraus, 2007; Wong, Skoe, Russo, Dees & Kraus, 2007), possibly through corticofugal feedback to subcortical sensory circuitry (Ahissar & Hochstein, 2004; Kraus & Banai, 2007). Although prior studies have investigated cortical‐evoked responses to speech and their relationship to language in individuals with ASD (Boddaert, Belin, Chabane, Poline, Barthelemy, Mouren‐Simeoni, Brunelle, Samson & Zilbovicius, 2003; Boddaert, Chabane, Belin, Bourgeois, Royer, Barthelemy, Mouren‐Simeoni, Philippe, Brunelle, Samson & Zilbovicius, 2004; Ceponiene, Lepistö, Shestakova, Vanhala, Alku, Näätänen & Yaguchi, 2003; Jansson‐Verkasalo, Ceponiene, Kielinen, Suominen, Jäntti, Linna, Moilanen & Näätänen, 2003; Kasai, Hashimoto, Kawakubo, Yumoto, Kamio, Itoh, Koshida, Iwanami, Nakagome, Fukuda, Yamasue, Yamada, Abe, Aoki & Kato, 2005; Kuhl, Coffey‐Corina, Padden & Dawson, 2005; Lepistö, Kujala, Vanhala, Alku, Huotilainen & Näätänen, 2005; Lepistö, Silokallio, Nieminen‐von Wendt, Alku, Näätänen & Kujala, 2006), the majority of studies of the auditory brainstem have focused on responses to non‐speech stimuli (i.e.…”

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Brainstem transcription of speech is disrupted in children with autism spectrum disorders

Russo

Nicol

Trommer

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Developmental Science

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Language impairment is a hallmark of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The origin of the deficit is poorly understood although deficiencies in auditory processing have been detected in both perception and cortical encoding of speech sounds. Little is known about the processing and transcription of speech sounds at earlier (brainstem) levels or about how background noise may impact this transcription process. Unlike cortical encoding of sounds, brainstem representation preserves stimulus features with a degree of fidelity that enables a direct link between acoustic components of the speech syllable (e.g., onsets) to specific aspects of neural encoding (e.g., waves V and A). We measured brainstem responses to the syllable /da/, in quiet and background noise, in children with and without ASD. Children with ASD exhibited deficits in both the neural synchrony (timing) and phase locking (frequency encoding) of speech sounds, despite normal click-evoked brainstem responses. They also exhibited reduced magnitude and fidelity of speech-evoked responses and inordinate degradation of responses by background noise in comparison to typically developing controls. Neural synchrony in noise was significantly related to measures of core and receptive language ability. These data support the idea that abnormalities in the brainstem processing of speech contribute to the language impairment in ASD. Because it is both passively-elicited and malleable, the speech-evoked brainstem response may serve as a clinical tool to assess auditory processing as well as the effects of auditory training in the ASD population.

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“…Studying commonalities between how language and musical sounds are processed affords more opportunities to learn about how we interact with the auditory environment than are available from studying either domain in isolation (Callan et al, 2006;Koelsch et al, 2009;Kraus & Banai, 2007;Patel, 2009;Peretz & Zatorre, 2005;Wong, Skoe, Russo, Dees, & Kraus, 2007). In the present article, we compare the serial recall of speech and music from short-term memory.…”

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Musicians' and nonmusicians' short-term memory for verbal and musical sequences: Comparing phonological similarity and pitch proximity

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There is a long scientific tradition of examining the similarities between language and music (Darwin, 1871;Patel, 2008). Studying commonalities between how language and musical sounds are processed affords more opportunities to learn about how we interact with the auditory environment than are available from studying either domain in isolation (Callan et al., 2006;Koelsch et al., 2009;Kraus & Banai, 2007;Patel, 2009;Peretz & Zatorre, 2005;Wong, Skoe, Russo, Dees, & Kraus, 2007). In the present article, we compare the serial recall of speech and music from short-term memory.The first reason for choosing short-term memory for a language-music comparison is that much is known about the operation of auditory-verbal serial recall. For simplicity, we present our studies within a single broad theoretical framework-the multicomponent workingmemory model (Baddeley, 2000;Baddeley & Hitch, 1974)-although we acknowledge that they could be fitted into other frameworks developed to explain processing in short-term memory. The working-memory model comprises an attention-controlling central executive and three subsystems: the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad, and the episodic buffer. The phonological loop is associated with the processing of speechlike information. It comprises a passive phonological store, which acts as a temporary holding center for speech-based information, and an articulatory rehearsal process, during which incoming visual information can be recoded and rehearsed using a phonological code (Baddeley, 2007). In the present research, we question whether the phonological loop also may be capable of processing musical stimuli.A second reason for focusing the language-music comparison within short-term memory is the importance of verbal short-term memory for a range of higher cognitive abilities. These include the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar (Baddeley, Papagno, & Vallar, 1988;Gathercole & Baddeley, 1990), reading (Baddeley, Gathercole, & Papagno, 1998), and action control (Baddeley, Chincotta, & Adlam, 2001;Liefooghe, Barouillet, Vandierendonck, & Camos, 2008;Miyake et al., 2000). An empirical investigation of language and music processing in shortterm memory therefore has the potential to encourage investigations into the role of musical short-term memory in equivalent domain cognitive abilities (e.g., reading music Language-music comparative studies have highlighted the potential for shared resources or neural overlap in auditory short-term memory. However, there is a lack of behavioral methodologies for comparing verbal and musical serial recall. We developed a visual grid response that allowed both musicians and nonmusicians to perform serial recall of letter and tone sequences. The new method was used to compare the phonological similarity effect with the impact of an operationalized musical equivalent-pitch proximity. Over the course of three experiments, we found that short-term memory for tones had several similarities to verbal memory, including limited capacity and a significant ...

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Auditory-Processing Malleability

Cited by 77 publications

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Current Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music

Current Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music

Brainstem transcription of speech is disrupted in children with autism spectrum disorders

Musicians' and nonmusicians' short-term memory for verbal and musical sequences: Comparing phonological similarity and pitch proximity

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