Measurement of extensive auditory discrimination profiles using the mismatch negativity (MMN) of the auditory event-related potential (ERP)

Pakarinen, Satu; Takegata, Rika; Rinne, Teemu; Huotilainen, Minna; Näätänen, Risto

doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2006.09.001

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“…The obtained result that a change in the distortedness of the chord (distorted vs. nondistorted) elicited larger and earlier change-related responses than a change in the harmonic structure (dyad vs. triad) is in line with previous research demonstrating larger and earlier MMN and P3a responses to perceptually larger deviants (Ford et al, 1976;Jaramillo et al, 2000;Novitski et al, 2004;Pakarinen et al, 2007). Varying the level of distortion in the chords clearly causes a large perceptual contrast evident in the auditory signal waveform, compared to the more subtle change elicited by a change in the harmonic structure (e.g., adding or omitting the third interval).…”

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Distortion and Western Music Chord Processing

Virtala

Huotilainen

Lilja³

et al. 2018

Music Perception

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GUITAR DISTORTION USED IN ROCK MUSIC MODIFIESa chord so that new frequencies appear in its harmonic structure. A distorted dyad (power chord) has a special role in heavy metal music due to its harmonics that create a major third interval, making it similar to a major chord. We investigated how distortion affects cortical auditory processing of chords in musicians and nonmusicians. Electric guitar chords with or without distortion and with or without the interval of the major third (i.e., triads or dyads) were presented in an oddball design where one of them served as a repeating standard stimulus and others served as occasional deviants. This enabled the recording of event-related potentials (ERPs) of the electroencephalogram (EEG) related to deviance processing (the mismatch negativity MMN and the attention-related P3a component) in an ignore condition. MMN and P3a responses were elicited in most paradigms. Distorted chords in a nondistorted context only elicited early P3a responses. However, the power chord did not demonstrate a special role in the level of the ERPs. Earlier and larger MMN and P3a responses were elicited when distortion was modified compared to when only harmony (triad vs. dyad) was modified between standards and deviants. The MMN responses were largest when distortion and harmony deviated simultaneously. Musicians demonstrated larger P3a responses than nonmusicians. The results suggest mostly independent cortical auditory processing of distortion and harmony in Western individuals, and facilitated chord change processing in musicians compared to nonmusicians. While distortion has been used in heavy rock music for decades, this study is among the first ones to shed light on its cortical basis.

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Distortion and Western Music Chord Processing

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Huotilainen

Lilja³

et al. 2018

Music Perception

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“…In order for MMN to become a useful tool for clinical practice, it needs to be reliably measurable in individual patients (McGee et al, 1997;Ponton et al, 1997;Ha et al, 2003;Marco-Pallarés et al, 2005). Näätänen et al (2004) have developed an ''optimal" MMN paradigm that yields a multifaceted profile of auditory discrimination abilities with a recording time of approximately 15 min (see also Pakarinen et al, 2007). The deviant tones differ from the standard tones on one of five possible attributes: duration, frequency, spatial location, intensity, or by having a sound gap in the middle of the tone (see Table 1 for stimulus details).…”

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Event-related potentials in clinical research: Guidelines for eliciting, recording, and quantifying mismatch negativity, P300, and N400

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Clinical Neurophysiology

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“…Thus, we cannot exclude the possibility that the use of smaller deviants would have revealed group differences in the MMN response to non-temporal deviants. To overrule this possibility, a parametric study utilizing several deviance magnitudes for each deviant feature would be needed (Pakarinen et al, 2007).…”

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