Le Deficit Musical Des Aphasiques

Francès, Robert; Lhermitte, F; Verdy, Martine

doi:10.1111/j.1464-0597.1973.tb00391.x

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“…Thus reports of aphasia without amusia in musicians should not deter the study of music syntactic processing ordinary aphasic individuals. To our knowledge, there is only one prior study of music syntax processing in such individuals (Francès, Lhermitte, & Verdy, 1973). That study suggested that aphasic individuals had difficulty with processing harmonic relations in music.…”

Section: Prior Research On Musical Syntactic Processing In Aphasiamentioning

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Musical syntactic processing in agrammatic Broca's aphasia

Patel

Iversen

Wassenaar³

et al. 2008

Aphasiology

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Background: Growing evidence for overlap in the syntactic processing of language and music in non-brain-damaged individuals leads to the question of whether aphasic individuals with grammatical comprehension problems in language also have problems processing structural relations in music. Aims: The current study sought to test musical syntactic processing in individuals with Broca's aphasia and grammatical comprehension deficits, using both explicit and implicit tasks. Methods & Procedures: Two experiments were conducted. In the first experiment 12 individuals with Broca's aphasia (and 14 matched controls) were tested for their sensitivity to grammatical and semantic relations in sentences, and for their sensitivity to musical syntactic (harmonic) relations in chord sequences. An explicit task (acceptability judgement of novel sequences) was used. The second experiment, with 9 individuals with Broca's aphasia (and 12 matched controls), probed musical syntactic processing using an implicit task (harmonic priming). Outcomes & Results: In both experiments the aphasic group showed impaired processing of musical syntactic relations. Control experiments indicated that this could not be attributed to low-level problems with the perception of pitch patterns or with auditory short-term memory for tones. Conclusions: The results suggest that musical syntactic processing in agrammatic aphasia deserves systematic investigation, and that such studies could help probe the nature of the processing deficits underlying linguistic agrammatism. Methodological suggestions are offered for future work in this little-explored area

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Musical syntactic processing in agrammatic Broca's aphasia

Patel

Iversen

Wassenaar³

et al. 2008

Aphasiology

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“…Yet, this processing component appears isolable both functionally and neuroanatomically. Brain damage can disrupt the normal intervention of tonal knowledge in melodic processing (Françès et al 1973), while sparing perception of intervals and contour (Peretz 1993). In such cases, the patient is no longer able to distinguish tonal from atonal music nor to judge melodic closure properly and suffers from a severe reduction in pitch memory.…”

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Brain Organization for Music Processing

Peretz

Zatorre

2005

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

668

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Research on how the brain processes music is emerging as a rich and stimulating area of investigation of perception, memory, emotion, and performance. Results emanating from both lesion studies and neuroimaging techniques are reviewed and integrated for each of these musical functions. We focus our attention on the common core of musical abilities shared by musicians and nonmusicians alike. Hence, the effect of musical training on brain plasticity is examined in a separate section, after a review of the available data regarding music playing and reading skills that are typically cultivated by musicians. Finally, we address a currently debated issue regarding the putative existence of music-specific neural networks. Unfortunately, due to scarcity of research on the macrostructure of music organization and on cultural differences, the musical material under focus is at the level of the musical phrase, as typically used in Western popular music.

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“…These cases also reflect a variety of deficits; cases of preserved musical sound processing in the presence of linguistic sound processing deficits are elusive at best (e.g., Mendez, 2001 ; Slevc et al, 2011 ). While there is little data on language deficits without musical deficits in non-musicians, some evidence does suggest that aphasia in non-musicians may also be accompanied by deficits in aspects of pitch and harmonic processing (Frances et al, 1973 ; Tallal and Piercy, 1973 ; Patel et al, 2008 ).…”

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Music and Early Language Acquisition

Brandt¹,

Gebrian²,

Slevc³

2012

Front. Psychology

197

121

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Language is typically viewed as fundamental to human intelligence. Music, while recognized as a human universal, is often treated as an ancillary ability – one dependent on or derivative of language. In contrast, we argue that it is more productive from a developmental perspective to describe spoken language as a special type of music. A review of existing studies presents a compelling case that musical hearing and ability is essential to language acquisition. In addition, we challenge the prevailing view that music cognition matures more slowly than language and is more difficult; instead, we argue that music learning matches the speed and effort of language acquisition. We conclude that music merits a central place in our understanding of human development.

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Le Deficit Musical Des Aphasiques

Cited by 13 publications

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Musical syntactic processing in agrammatic Broca's aphasia

Musical syntactic processing in agrammatic Broca's aphasia

Brain Organization for Music Processing

Music and Early Language Acquisition

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