Improved tactile frequency discrimination in musicians

Sharp, Andréanne; Houde, Marie-Soleil; Maheu, Maxime; Ibrahim, Issah; Champoux, François

doi:10.1007/s00221-019-05532-z

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“…By contrast, the intensity discrimination in the somatosensory modality did not differ between the two groups. Contrary to this, previous studies demonstrated superior somatosensory perceptions assessed by a two-point discrimination task and a tactile frequency discrimination task in musicians compared with nonmusicians 24,35,52,53 . These contrasting results suggest that neural mechanisms underlying the somatosensory discrimination perception differ between the frequency and intensity domains.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…A novel finding of the present study was superior intensity discrimination in the pianists to the nonmusicians when the multisensory stimulus was presented. Several previous studies also demonstrated that musicians could react faster perceive the frequency more accurately 35 to multisensory stimulus than nonmusicians, suggesting superior multisensory integration function in musicians to nonmusicians. While these studies compared the reaction time and the frequency discrimination perception between the groups when multisensory stimuli were given, none of them compared those behavioral measures between the multisensory condition and the better one of the individual unimodal conditions.…”

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confidence: 79%

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Multisensory interactions on auditory and somatosensory information in expert pianists

Hirano

Furuya

2022

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Fine-tuned sensory functions are bases of efficient motor control and learning and typically characterize skilled individuals. Although numerous studies demonstrated enhanced unimodal sensory functions at both neural and behavioral levels in skilled individuals, little is known about their multisensory interaction, especially multisensory integration and selective attention that involve volitional control of information derived from multiple sensory organs. Here, we show unique multisensory interaction functions of expert pianists. Expert pianists and musically untrained individuals performed five sets of intensity discrimination tasks at the auditory and somatosensory modalities with different conditions: (1) auditory stimulus, (2) somatosensory stimulus, (3) congruent auditory and somatosensory stimuli (i.e., multisensory integration), (4) auditory and task-irrelevant somatosensory stimuli, and (5) somatosensory and task-irrelevant auditory stimuli. In the fourth and fifth conditions, participants were instructed to ignore a task-irrelevant stimulus and to pay attention to a task-relevant stimulus (i.e., selective attention). The unimodal intensity discrimination of the pianists was superior to that of the nonmusicians at the auditory modality but not at the somatosensory modality. While the discrimination perception was superior in the condition (3) compared to the better one of the individual unimodal conditions (i.e., conditions 1 and 2) only in the pianists, the task-irrelevant somatosensory stimulus worsened the auditory discrimination more in the pianists than the nonmusicians. These findings indicate efficient processing of multisensory information in expert pianists, which enables to benefit from multisensory integration of the auditory and somatosensory information, but exacerbates top-down selective inhibition of somatosensory information during auditory processing.

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Multisensory interactions on auditory and somatosensory information in expert pianists

Hirano

Furuya

2022

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“…A novel finding of the present study was superior intensity discrimination in the pianists to the nonmusicians when the multisensory stimulus was presented. Several previous studies also demonstrated that musicians could react faster 41 and perceive the frequency more accurately 37 to multisensory stimulus than nonmusicians, suggesting superior multisensory integration function in musicians to nonmusicians. While these studies compared the reaction time and the frequency discrimination perception between the groups when multisensory stimuli were given, none of them compared those behavioral measures between the multisensory condition and the better one of the individual unimodal conditions.…”

Section: Multisensory Integration Functionmentioning

confidence: 78%

“…S1 ). The pilot experiment was designed to determine a sample size that would, at a minimum, replicate the differences in the auditory and somatosensory integration function between musicians and non-musicians reported in the previous study 37 . In the pilot experiment, 4 pianists and 4 nonmusicians who did not participate in the main experiment performed the intensity discrimination task in the conditions A, S, and A + S. A two-way repeated mixed ANOVA yielded a moderate effect size of interactions between the group and condition factors (partial eta squared value = 0.1) on the sigma value between the A + S condition and the smaller one of the A and S conditions.…”

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Multisensory interactions on auditory and somatosensory information in expert pianists

Hirano

Furuya

2022

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Fine-tuned sensory functions typically characterize skilled individuals. Although numerous studies demonstrated enhanced unimodal sensory functions at both neural and behavioral levels in skilled individuals, little is known about their multisensory interaction function, especially multisensory integration and selective attention that involve volitional control of information derived from multiple sensory organs. In the current study, expert pianists and musically untrained individuals performed five sets of intensity discrimination tasks at the auditory and somatosensory modalities with different conditions: (1) auditory stimulus, (2) somatosensory stimulus, (3) congruent auditory and somatosensory stimuli (i.e., multisensory integration), (4) auditory and task-irrelevant somatosensory stimuli, and (5) somatosensory and task-irrelevant auditory stimuli. In the fourth and fifth conditions, participants were instructed to ignore a task-irrelevant stimulus and to pay attention to a task-relevant stimulus (i.e., selective attention), respectively. While the discrimination perception was superior in the condition (3) compared to the better one of the individual unimodal conditions only in the pianists, the task-irrelevant somatosensory stimulus worsened the auditory discrimination more in the pianists than the nonmusicians. These findings indicate unique multisensory interactions in expert pianists, which enables pianists to efficiently integrate the auditory and somatosensory information, but exacerbates top-down selective inhibition of somatosensory information during auditory processing.

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“…One showed that musical meter recognition by musicians for auditory stimulation is disturbed with the presence of incongruent tactile stimulations ( Huang et al, 2012 ). Another found that musicians have a higher ability of frequency discrimination in not only auditory but also tactile stimulation than non-musicians ( Sharp et al, 2019 ). Since these two studies presented tactile stimulations on the fingertip or hand of participants independent of auditory stimulations, they did not examine the tactile sensation evoked by the air vibration that sound stimulations induce.…”

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Presence of Three-Dimensional Sound Field Facilitates Listeners’ Mood, Felt Emotion, and Respiration Rate When Listening to Music

Ooishi¹,

Kobayashi

Kashino³

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Many studies have investigated the effects of music listening from the viewpoint of music features such as tempo or key by measuring psychological or psychophysiological responses. In addition, technologies for three-dimensional sound field (3D-SF) reproduction and binaural recording have been developed to induce a realistic sensation of sound. However, it is still unclear whether music listened to in the presence of 3D-SF is more impressive than in the absence of it. We hypothesized that the presence of a 3D-SF when listening to music facilitates listeners’ moods, emotions for music, and physiological activities such as respiration rate. Here, we examined this hypothesis by evaluating differences between a reproduction condition with headphones (HD condition) and one with a 3D-SF reproduction system (3D-SF condition). We used a 3D-SF reproduction system based on the boundary surface control principle (BoSC system) to reproduce a sound field of music in the 3D-SF condition. Music in the 3D-SF condition was binaurally recorded through a dummy head in the BoSC reproduction room and reproduced with headphones in the HD condition. Therefore, music in the HD condition was auditorily as rich in information as that in the 3D-SF condition, but the 3D-sound field surrounding listeners was absent. We measured the respiration rate and heart rate of participants listening to acousmonium and pipe organ music. The participants rated their felt moods before and after they listened to music, and after they listened, they also rated their felt emotion. We found that the increase in respiration rate, the degree of decrease in well-being, and unpleasantness for both pieces in the 3D-SF condition were greater than in the HD condition. These results suggest that the presence of 3D-SF enhances changes in mood, felt emotion for music, and respiration rate when listening to music.

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Improved tactile frequency discrimination in musicians

Cited by 13 publications

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Multisensory interactions on auditory and somatosensory information in expert pianists

Multisensory interactions on auditory and somatosensory information in expert pianists

Multisensory interactions on auditory and somatosensory information in expert pianists

Presence of Three-Dimensional Sound Field Facilitates Listeners’ Mood, Felt Emotion, and Respiration Rate When Listening to Music

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