Music training enhances the rapid plasticity of P3a/P3b event-related brain potentials for unattended and attended target sounds

Seppänen, Miia; Pesonen, Anu‐Katriina; Tervaniemi, Mari

doi:10.3758/s13414-011-0257-9

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“…Active tasks were adaptive, that is, the better participant could discriminate the more difficult deviants. In a previous study, we found that musicians discriminated deviating sounds in active tasks better than non-musicians (Seppänen et al, 2012). There was, however, no significant difference in the number of standard or deviant trials in Active task 1, which was used as a probe for the active attention.…”

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“…There was, however, no significant difference in the number of standard or deviant trials in Active task 1, which was used as a probe for the active attention. Furthermore, only non-musicians demonstrated an improvement in the behavioral discrimination of difficult deviations, whereas in musicians, the discrimination remained at the maximum level (Seppänen et al, 2012). Based on these arguments, it is unlikely that the present finding of the standard sound enhancement in musicians would be caused by the more frequent exposure to deviating sounds during the active task.…”

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Music Training Enhances Rapid Neural Plasticity of N1 and P2 Source Activation for Unattended Sounds

Seppänen¹,

Hämäläinen²,

Pesonen³

et al. 2012

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Neurocognitive studies have demonstrated that long-term music training enhances the processing of unattended sounds. It is not clear, however, whether music training also modulates rapid (within tens of minutes) neural plasticity for sound encoding. To study this phenomenon, we examined whether adult musicians display enhanced rapid neural plasticity compared to non-musicians. More specifically, we compared the modulation of P1, N1, and P2 responses to standard sounds between four unattended passive blocks. Among the standard sounds, infrequently presented deviant sounds were presented (the so-called oddball paradigm). In the middle of the experiment (after two blocks), an active task was presented. Source analysis for event-related potentials (ERPs) showed that N1 and P2 source activation was selectively decreased in musicians after 15 min of passive exposure to sounds and that P2 source activation was found to be re-enhanced after the active task in musicians. Additionally, ERP analysis revealed that in both musicians and non-musicians, P2 ERP amplitude was enhanced after 15 min of passive exposure but only at the frontal electrodes. Furthermore, in musicians, the N1 ERP was enhanced after the active discrimination task but only at the parietal electrodes. Musical training modulates the rapid neural plasticity reflected in N1 and P2 source activation for unattended regular standard sounds. Enhanced rapid plasticity of N1 and P2 is likely to reflect faster auditory perceptual learning in musicians.

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Music Training Enhances Rapid Neural Plasticity of N1 and P2 Source Activation for Unattended Sounds

Seppänen¹,

Hämäläinen²,

Pesonen³

et al. 2012

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Furthermore, the amplitude of these responses was correlated with the age at which musicians began their musical training. Several electroencephalographic studies have also revealed an increase of the amplitude of event-related potential (ERP) components (N100, P200, MMN, P300 among others) in musicians (Trainor et al, 1999;Shahin et al, 2003Shahin et al, , 2007Jongsma et al, 2004;Magne et al, 2006;Musacchia et al, 2007;Seppa¨nen et al, 2012;Habibi et al, 2013;Kaganovich et al, 2013;Ungan et al, 2013;Virtala et al, 2014). For example, Shahin et al (2003) found that highly skilled violinists and pianists exhibited larger N1 and P2 responses compared with non-musicians when they passively listened to musical tones (violin, piano) and pure tones matched in fundamental frequency to the musical tones.…”

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Time course of the influence of musical expertise on the processing of vocal and musical sounds

Rigoulot¹,

Pell²,

Armony³

2015

Neuroscience

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“…While the role of attention with respect to musicians' perception remains debated (e.g., Baumann et al, 2008;Koelsch et al, 1999), research has shown that musicians differ from nonmusicians in the way that attention modulates electrophysiological indices of auditory perception (e.g., Tervaniemi et al, 2005Tervaniemi et al, , 2009Seppänen et al, 2012; see also Marie et al, 2011). Compared to non-musicians, musicians show increased N2b component amplitudes for attended intensity, frequency and duration deviances in speech and musical sounds (Tervaniemi et al, 2009), and significant reductions in P3b amplitudes when attending to subtle pitch deviances .…”

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Generality and specificity in the effects of musical expertise on perception and cognition

Carey

Rosen²,

Krishnan

et al. 2015

Cognition

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Performing musicians invest thousands of hours becoming experts in a range of perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills. The duration and intensity of musicians' training -far greater than that of most educational or rehabilitation programs -provides a useful model to test the extent to which skills acquired in one particular context (music) generalize to different domains. Here, we asked whether the instrument-specific and more instrument-general skills acquired during professional violinists' and pianists' training would generalize to superior performance on a wide range of analogous (largely non-musical) skills, when compared to closely matched non-musicians.Violinists and pianists outperformed non-musicians on fine-grained auditory psychophysical measures, but surprisingly did not differ from each other, despite the different demands of their instruments. Musician groups did differ on a tuning system perception task: violinists showed clearest biases towards the tuning system specific to their instrument, suggesting that long-term experience leads to selective perceptual benefits given a training-relevant context. However, we found only weak evidence of group differences in non-musical skills, with musicians differing marginally in one measure of sustained auditory attention, but not significantly on auditory scene analysis or multi-modal sequencing measures. Further, regression analyses showed that this sustained auditory attention metric predicted more variance in one auditory psychophysical measure than did musical expertise. Our findings suggest that specific musical expertise may yield distinct perceptual outcomes within contexts close to the area of training. Generalization of expertise to relevant cognitive domains may be less clear, particularly where the task context is non-musical.Keywords: expertise; musicians; perception; cognition; generalization GENERALITY AND SPECIFICITY IN MUSICAL EXPERTISE EFFECTS 3 Highlights 1. We studied generalization of expertise to auditory perceptual and broader cognitive skills.2. Musician groups perceived auditory signal differences more finely than non-musicians.3. Musician groups differed in fine perception given a training-relevant context. 4. Musical expertise did not strongly generalize to several cognitive measures (e.g., auditory scene analysis).5. 5. Sustained attention predicted variance in fine perception of AM depth above expertise. GENERALITY AND SPECIFICITY IN MUSICAL EXPERTISE EFFECTS 4 Generality and Specificity in the Effects of Musical Expertise on Perception and CognitionPerceptual and cognitive skills can be shaped and enhanced through our experience with the world (e.g., Goldstone, 1999;Palmeri & Gauthier, 2004). Pursuit of expertise in a given domain is a particularly striking example: groups as diverse as chess masters, physicians, athletes and musicians spend thousands of hours training and practicing, honing perceptual, cognitive and motor skills critical to success in their field (see Ericsson, 2006;Palmeri et al., 2004; Chi, 200...

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Music training enhances the rapid plasticity of P3a/P3b event-related brain potentials for unattended and attended target sounds

Cited by 33 publications

References 42 publications

Music Training Enhances Rapid Neural Plasticity of N1 and P2 Source Activation for Unattended Sounds

Music Training Enhances Rapid Neural Plasticity of N1 and P2 Source Activation for Unattended Sounds

Time course of the influence of musical expertise on the processing of vocal and musical sounds

Generality and specificity in the effects of musical expertise on perception and cognition

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