Musicians and non-musicians’ different reliance of features in consonance perception: A behavioral and ERP study

Kung, Chun Chia; Hsieh, Tsung Hao; Liou, Jen Yu; Lin, Kuei Ju; Shaw, Fu-Zen; Liang, Sheng

doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2013.10.016

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“…Similarly, Kung et al . () found a right‐sided lateralization in controls and a more bilateral pattern of activation for processing dissonant chords. Interestingly, Bidelman & Grall () compared neural processing of consonant and dissonant dyads (i.e.…”

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“…Likewise, Kung et al . () found much larger frontal anterior negativities (and smaller P2s) in response to tritones (disharmonic interval) than to perfect fifth (consonant chord) intervals only in musicians and not in controls. In that study, which involved an active discrimination task, musicians averaged a 95% accuracy in the (perfect fifths) consonant discrimination and a 94% accuracy in the (triton) dissonant discrimination, whereas non‐musicians showed lower accuracies when judging the consonance of perfect fifths (49%) and dissonance of tritons (53%).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Several event‐related potentials (ERPs) studies have demonstrated a modulation in the amplitude of auditory N2 component as a function of chord consonance as opposed to dissonance (Regnault et al ., ; Itoh et al ., ; Schoen et al ., ; Kung et al ., ). For example, Minati et al .…”

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Brain processing of consonance/dissonance in musicians and controls: a hemispheric asymmetry revisited

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Orlandi

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It was investigated to what extent musical expertise influences the auditory processing of harmonicity by recording event-related potentials. Thirty-four participants (18 musicians and 16 controls) were asked to listen to hundreds of chords, differing in their degree of consonance, their complexity (from two to six composing sounds) and their range (distance of two adjacent pitches, from quartertones to more than 18 semitone steps). The task consisted of detecting rare targets. An early auditory N1 was observed that was modulated by chord dissonance in both groups. The response was generated in the right medial temporal gyrus (MTG) for consonant chords but in the left MTG for dissonant chords according to swLORETA reconstruction performed. An anterior negativity (N2) was enhanced only in musicians in response to chords featuring quartertones, thus suggesting a greater pitch sensitivity for simultaneous pure tones in the skilled brain. The P300 was affected by the frequency range only in musicians, who also showed a greater sensitivity to sound complexity. A strong left hemispheric specialization for processing quartertones in the left temporal cortex of musicians was observed at N2 level (250-350 ms), which was observed on the right side in controls. Additionally, in controls, widespread activity of the right limbic area was associated with listening to close frequencies causing disturbing beats, possibly suggesting a negative aesthetic appreciation for these stimuli. Overall, the data show a finer and more tuned neural representation of pitch intervals in musicians, linked to a marked specialization of their left temporal cortex (BA21/38).

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Brain processing of consonance/dissonance in musicians and controls: a hemispheric asymmetry revisited

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Orlandi

Pisanu

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Eur J of Neuroscience

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“…Along with the accumulation of data on the multidimensionality of DLD, its faceted nature, and the relative concurrent and developmental dissociation of its facets, there has been an increase in the evidence substantiating the remarkable amount of neuroplasticity demonstrated by the brain as it learns to deal with linguistic stimuli experimentally (Chen et al, 2012; Kung et al, 2014; Spironelli, Galfano, Umiltà, & Angrilli, 2011) and developmentally by children (Kuhl, 2010) and adults (Batterink & Neville, 2013; Fernandez, Tartar, Padron, & Acosta, 2013). This growing literature substantiates the hypothesis that the brain does not shape language unilaterally; rather, language development also structures the brain, so that impaired language development is traceable in the brain’s response to linguistic stimuli.…”

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Lexical processing deficits in children with developmental language disorder: An event-related potentials study

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Lexical processing deficits in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have been postulated to arise as sequelae of their grammatical deficits (either directly or via compensatory mechanisms) and vice versa. We examined event-related potential indices of lexical processing in children with DLD (n = 23) and their typically developing peers (n = 16) using a picture–word matching paradigm. We found that children with DLD showed markedly reduced N400 amplitudes in response both to auditorily presented words that had initial phonological overlap with the name of the pictured object and to words that were not semantically or phonologically related to the pictured object. Moreover, this reduction was related to behavioral indices of phonological and lexical but not grammatical development. We also found that children with DLD showed a depressed phonological mapping negativity component in the early time window, suggesting deficits in phonological processing or early lexical access. The results are partially consistent with the overactivation account of lexical processing deficits in DLD and point to the relative functional independence of lexical/phonological and grammatical deficits in DLD, supporting a multidimensional view of the disorder. The results also, although indirectly, support the neuroplasticity account of DLD, according to which language impairment affects brain development and shapes the specific patterns of brain responses to language stimuli.

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“…Further, musicians are more likely to rely on sensing the harmonicity of a chord in order to judge its C/D than their non-musician counterparts (Kung, Hsieh, Liou, Lin, Shaw, & Liang, 2014;McDermott, Lehr, & Oxenham, 2010). On the other hand, no difference between musicians and non-musicians were found in certain other cases.…”

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On the fluidity of consonance and dissonance: The influence of musical context.

Arthurs¹,

Timmers²

2016

Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain

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The consonance/dissonance (C/D) level of a triadic chord is not a fixed or absolute value.Rather, it is fluid, since C/D depends both on a chord's sonic characteristics and on the musical context in which it appears. To test the fluidity of C/D -the extent to which C/D perception is dependent on musical context -four types of chords, major, minor, augmented and diminished triads, were presented in isolation ("without musical context") and as part of a short cadence (IV-V-I, "with musical context"). The C/D level of each chord was judged, as was the overall C/D and pleasantness/unpleasantness (P/U) level of the cadences. When isolated, major triads were considered most consonant, followed by minor and diminished triads, while augmented triads were judged most dissonant. In the context of a musical cadence, this rank order remained the same, but augmented and diminished chords were evaluated as less or more dissonant depending on their functional position within the cadence (for instance, diminished triads were relatively consonant when on the subdominant, while augmented triads were relatively dissonant when on the tonic). These findings lend support to the hypotheses that: (a) the degree to which the harmonic function of a chord is familiar, and; (b) the degree to which a chord's stability (and hence also the listener's expectation) is violated contribute to the perception of C/D.

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Musicians and non-musicians’ different reliance of features in consonance perception: A behavioral and ERP study

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References 22 publications

Brain processing of consonance/dissonance in musicians and controls: a hemispheric asymmetry revisited

Brain processing of consonance/dissonance in musicians and controls: a hemispheric asymmetry revisited

Lexical processing deficits in children with developmental language disorder: An event-related potentials study

On the fluidity of consonance and dissonance: The influence of musical context.

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