Physiological Influences of Music in Perception and Action

Wright, Shannon; Bégel, Valentin; Palmer, Caroline

doi:10.1017/9781009043359

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“…Future directions may address distinctions between unidirectional coupling of individual practice with a recording (common in musicians' play-along practice albums) and bidirectional coupling that arises in joint performance. Physiological changes that occur during ensemble performance conditions, such as joint influences on respiration or heart rate, may also impact partners' coupling (Wright et al, 2022;Høffding et al, 2023). Finally, further investigations may compare influences of solo practice on joint synchronization in terms of frequency of practice (such as performers who practice music daily and those who do not).…”

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Effects of individual practice on joint musical synchronization

Plitchenko,

Bégel,

Palmer

2024

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Successful music-making requires precise sensorimotor synchronization, both in individual (solo) and joint (ensemble) social settings. We investigated how individual practice synchronizing with a temporally regular melody (Solo conditions) influences subsequent synchronization between two partners (Joint conditions). Musically trained adults practiced producing a melody by tapping on a keypad; each tap generated the next tone in the melody. First, the pairs synchronized their melody productions with their partner in a baseline Joint synchronization task. Then each partner separately synchronized their melody with a computer-generated recording of the partner’s melody in a Solo intervention condition that presented either Normal (temporally regular) auditory feedback or delayed feedback (by 30–70 ms) in occasional (25%) randomly placed tone positions. Then the pairs synchronized again with their partner in a Joint condition. Next, they performed the second Solo condition (normal or delayed auditory feedback) followed again by the Joint condition. Joint synchronization performance was modeled with a delay-coupled oscillator model to assess the coupling strength between partners. Absolute asynchronies in the Solo Intervention tasks were greater in the Delayed feedback condition than in the Normal feedback condition. Model estimates yielded larger coupling values between partners in Joint conditions that followed the Solo Normal feedback than the Solo Delayed feedback. Notably, the asynchronies were smaller in the Joint conditions than in the Solo conditions. These findings indicate that coupled interactions in settings of two or more performers can be improved by individual synchronization practice.

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Effects of individual practice on joint musical synchronization

Plitchenko,

Bégel,

Palmer

2024

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Our results link prenatal musical exposure to F 0 neural encoding, but do not provide any causal explanation nor detail on the most relevant constituents of musical exposure. For instance, the type of music that the mother and the fetus are exposed to, and its intensity, are both important factors in determining the impact of the exposure on speech encoding abilities and their general well‐being (Gerhardt & Abrams, 2000; Wright et al., 2022). Musical features such as tempo, meter, melodic frequency range, musical notes, syllabic contour and presence or absence of singing differ across music genres (Teie, 2016), and are based on acoustic features (i.e., pitch, intensity, timing…) that are readily available to the fetus despite the low‐pass filter characteristics of the womb.…”

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Prenatal daily musical exposure is associated with enhanced neural representation of speech fundamental frequency: Evidence from neonatal frequency‐following responses

Arenillas-Alcón

Ribas-Prats

Puertollano

et al. 2023

Developmental Science

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Fetal hearing experiences shape the linguistic and musical preferences of neonates. From the very first moment after birth, newborns prefer their native language, recognize their mother's voice, and show a greater responsiveness to lullabies presented during pregnancy. Yet, the neural underpinnings of this experience inducing plasticity have remained elusive. Here we recorded the frequency‐following response (FFR), an auditory evoked potential elicited to periodic complex sounds, to show that prenatal music exposure is associated to enhanced neural encoding of speech stimuli periodicity, which relates to the perceptual experience of pitch. FFRs were recorded in a sample of 60 healthy neonates born at term and aged 12–72 hours. The sample was divided into two groups according to their prenatal musical exposure (29 daily musically exposed; 31 not‐daily musically exposed). Prenatal exposure was assessed retrospectively by a questionnaire in which mothers reported how often they sang or listened to music through loudspeakers during the last trimester of pregnancy. The FFR was recorded to either a /da/ or an /oa/ speech‐syllable stimulus. Analyses were centered on stimuli sections of identical duration (113 ms) and fundamental frequency (F0 = 113 Hz). Neural encoding of stimuli periodicity was quantified as the FFR spectral amplitude at the stimulus F0. Data revealed that newborns exposed daily to music exhibit larger spectral amplitudes at F0 as compared to not‐daily musically‐exposed newborns, regardless of the eliciting stimulus. Our results suggest that prenatal music exposure facilitates the tuning to human speech fundamental frequency, which may support early language processing and acquisition.Research Highlights Frequency‐following responses to speech were collected from a sample of neonates prenatally exposed to music daily and compared to neonates not‐daily exposed to music. Neonates who experienced daily prenatal music exposure exhibit enhanced frequency‐following responses to the periodicity of speech sounds. Prenatal music exposure is associated with a fine‐tuned encoding of human speech fundamental frequency, which may facilitate early language processing and acquisition.

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“…A growing number of studies has focused on physiological changes that music can induce in listeners (Wright, Bégel, & Palmer, 2022). The strong coupling between emotional responses to music and physiological processes is also present in aesthetic experiences of 'being moved' (Menninghaus et al, 2015), which are often linked to sympathetic physical phenomena such as chills ('goose bumps'), or to tears when listening to sad songs (Mori & Iwanaga, 2017).…”

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Associations of aesthetic experiences with listeners' physiology in music segments of live concerts

Tschacher,

Greenwood,

Weining

et al. 2024

Preprint

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A study of 690 participants attending classical public concerts was conducted with the goal of analyzing the associations between self-reported aesthetic experiences and listeners' physiological responses. The concerts staged chamber music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Brett Dean, and Johannes Brahms. Participants' physiological signals were recorded with wearable sensors during the concerts. After the concerts, music segments were individually presented to participants, and the participants' experiences of the music segment were obtained using the Aesthetic Emotions Scale.

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Physiological Influences of Music in Perception and Action

Cited by 16 publications

References 155 publications

Effects of individual practice on joint musical synchronization

Effects of individual practice on joint musical synchronization

Prenatal daily musical exposure is associated with enhanced neural representation of speech fundamental frequency: Evidence from neonatal frequency‐following responses

Associations of aesthetic experiences with listeners' physiology in music segments of live concerts

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