Musicians show more integrated neural processing of contextually relevant acoustic features

Hansen, Niels Chr.; Højlund, Andreas; Møller, Cecilie; Pearce, Marcus T.; Vuust, Peter

doi:10.3389/fnins.2022.907540

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“…Since then, validated versions of the original inventory have been published in German (Schaal et al, 2014), Portuguese (Lima et al, 2020), French (Degrave & Dedonder, 2019), Traditional Chinese (Lin et al, 2021), Simplified Chinese (Li et al, 2023), Japanese (Sadakata et al, 2023), and Italian (Santangelo et al, 2023), many of which were based on online data collection. A Danish version (Gold-MSI-da) has been publicly available on the Gold-MSI webpage since 2014, and it has been used in a number of studies (Bro et al, 2019;Fernández-Rubio et al, 2023;Hansen et al, 2022;Møller et al, 2021). Yet, the Danish translation has never been formally validated.…”

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The Danish Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index: Validation in samples with different degrees of representativeness

Møller,

Hansen,

Vuust

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Convenience sampling is often used in music psychology research, leading to an overrepresentation of young participants with high socio-economic status, and potentially compromising the generalizability of empirical findings to the broader population. Fortunately, analysis techniques enable matching biased samples to known population characteristics, e.g., age, gender, and employment status. This study’s aim is twofold. First, we validate the Danish version of the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI-da), a self-report inventory assessing various aspects of musical sophistication on continuous scales in the general population. Then, we demonstrate the use of stratification techniques and quantify the influence of sample composition by comparing results from analyses performed on our biased sample to similar analyses performed using stratified subsampling and poststratification weights to increase representativeness. The bifactor structure of the Gold-MSI-da was consistently replicated showing similar subscale percentiles in three sample variants. Psychometric benchmarks of internal consistency aligned with benchmarks from other language versions, and although model fits were weaker in the most representative sample, they were still acceptable. Interestingly, the sizes of the effect of self-reported musical training and expertise on musical listening abilities diminished with increasing sample representativeness, indicating potential overestimation when relying on non-representative samples. We conclude that the Gold-MSI-da is a valid tool for assessing musical sophistication in the Danish general population.

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The Danish Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index: Validation in samples with different degrees of representativeness

Møller,

Hansen,

Vuust

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Music reward sensitivity is associated with greater information transfer capacity within dorsal and motor white matter networks in musicians

Matthews,

Lumaca,

Witek

et al. 2024

Brain Struct Funct

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There are pronounced differences in the degree to which individuals experience music-induced pleasure which are linked to variations in structural connectivity between auditory and reward areas. However, previous studies exploring the link between white matter structure and music reward sensitivity (MRS) have relied on standard diffusion tensor imaging methods, which present challenges in terms of anatomical accuracy and interpretability. Further, the link between MRS and connectivity in regions outside of auditory-reward networks, as well as the role of musical training, have yet to be investigated. Therefore, we investigated the relation between MRS and structural connectivity in a large number of directly segmented and anatomically verified white matter tracts in musicians (n = 24) and non-musicians (n = 23) using state-of-the-art tract reconstruction and fixel-based analysis. Using a manual tract-of-interest approach, we additionally tested MRS-white matter associations in auditory-reward networks seen in previous studies. Within the musician group, there was a significant positive relation between MRS and fiber density and cross section in the right middle longitudinal fascicle connecting auditory and inferior parietal cortices. There were also positive relations between MRS and fiber-bundle cross-section in tracts connecting the left thalamus to the ventral precentral gyrus and connecting the right thalamus to the right supplementary motor area, however, these did not survive FDR correction. These results suggest that, within musicians, dorsal auditory and motor networks are crucial to MRS, possibly via their roles in top-down predictive processing and auditory-motor transformations.

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Does musicianship influence the perceptual integrality of tones and segmental information?

Choi,

Lai

2023

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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This study investigated the effect of musicianship on the perceptual integrality of tones and segmental information in non-native speech perception. We tested 112 Cantonese musicians, Cantonese non-musicians, English musicians, and English non-musicians with a modified Thai tone AX discrimination task. In the tone discrimination task, the control block only contained tonal variations, whereas the orthogonal block contained both tonal and task-irrelevant segmental variations. Relative to their own performance in the control block, the Cantonese listeners showed decreased sensitivity index (d′) and increased response time in the orthogonal block, reflecting integral perception of tones and segmental information. By contrast, the English listeners performed similarly across the two blocks, indicating independent perception. Bayesian analysis revealed that the Cantonese musicians and the Cantonese non-musicians perceived Thai tones and segmental information equally integrally. Moreover, the English musicians and the English non-musicians showed similar degrees of independent perception. Based on the above results, musicianship does not seem to influence tone-segmental perceptual integrality. While musicianship apparently enhances tone sensitivity, not all musical advantages are transferrable to the language domain.

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Musicians show more integrated neural processing of contextually relevant acoustic features

Cited by 5 publications

References 164 publications

The Danish Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index: Validation in samples with different degrees of representativeness

The Danish Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index: Validation in samples with different degrees of representativeness

Music reward sensitivity is associated with greater information transfer capacity within dorsal and motor white matter networks in musicians

Does musicianship influence the perceptual integrality of tones and segmental information?

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