The Nature of Affective Priming in Music and Speech

Goerlich, Katharina S.; Witteman, Jurriaan; Schiller, Niels O.; Heuven, Vincent J. van; Alemán, André; Martens, Sander

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“…The latency of this effect in our study may well reflect an N400-like effect, which is in general agreement with several previous studies showing N400-like enhanced negativity for semantically incongruous AV signals (e.g. Meyer, Harrison, & Wuerger, 2013;Proctor & Meyer, 2011;Zimmer et al, 2010) and affectively incongruous AV stimuli (Goerlich et al, 2012). While the N400 is generally associated with incongruences in linguistic stimuli (for a review, see Kutas & Federmeier, 2011), the N400 has also been shown to be evoked by nonlinguistic incongruency related to, for example, line drawing and sounds (Cummings, Moreover, the linguistic N400 component is usually reported as a centro-parieto deflection (Kutas & Federmeier, 2011), whereas the current data indicates a more frontal effect, in line with the topography from studies on the non-linguistic N400 (Cummings, Čeponienė, Koyama, Saygin, Townsend, & Dick, 2006;Ganis, Kutas, & Sereno, 1996).…”

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The effects of stereo disparity on the behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of perception of audio–visual motion in depth

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Motion is represented by low-level signals, such as size-expansion in vision or loudness changes in the auditory modality. The visual and auditory signals from the same object or event may be integrated and facilitate detection. We explored behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of congruent and incongruent audio-visual depth motion in conditions where auditory level changes, visual expansion, and visual disparity cues were manipulated. In Experiment 1 participants discriminated auditory motion direction whilst viewing looming or receding, 2D or 3D, visual stimuli. Responses were faster and more accurate for congruent than for incongruent audio-visual cues, and the congruency effect (i.e., difference between incongruent and congruent conditions) was larger for visual 3D cues compared to 2D cues. In Experiment 2, event-related potentials (ERPs) were collected during presentation of the 2D and 3D, looming and receding, audio-visual stimuli, while participants Page 2 of 44 detected an infrequent deviant sound. Our main finding was that audio-visual congruity was affected by retinal disparity at an early processing stage (135 -160 ms) over occipito-parietal scalp. Topographic analyses suggested that similar brain networks were activated for the 2D and 3D congruity effects, but that cortical responses were stronger in the 3D condition.Differences between congruent and incongruent conditions were observed between 140 -200 ms, 220 -280 ms, and 350 -500 ms after stimulus onset.

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The effects of stereo disparity on the behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of perception of audio–visual motion in depth

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“…emotional words) was evaluated faster when preceded by emotion-congruent primes (e.g. music) than when preceded by emotion-incongruent primes [41], [51], [53]. This emotional congruency effect was also embodied by a pronounced N400 effect in brain potentials 400–500 ms post target onset, and reduced superior temporal gyrus but increased fusiform gyrus activations, during emotion-incongruent than during congruent conditions [41], [42], [51].…”

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Negative Mood State Enhances the Susceptibility to Unpleasant Events: Neural Correlates from a Music-Primed Emotion Classification Task

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BackgroundVarious affective disorders are linked with enhanced processing of unpleasant stimuli. However, this link is likely a result of the dominant negative mood derived from the disorder, rather than a result of the disorder itself. Additionally, little is currently known about the influence of mood on the susceptibility to emotional events in healthy populations.MethodEvent-Related Potentials (ERP) were recorded for pleasant, neutral and unpleasant pictures while subjects performed an emotional/neutral picture classification task during positive, neutral, or negative mood induced by instrumental Chinese music.ResultsLate Positive Potential (LPP) amplitudes were positively related to the affective arousal of pictures. The emotional responding to unpleasant pictures, indicated by the unpleasant-neutral differences in LPPs, was enhanced during negative compared to neutral and positive moods in the entire LPP time window (600–1000 ms). The magnitude of this enhancement was larger with increasing self-reported negative mood. In contrast, this responding was reduced during positive compared to neutral mood in the 800–1000 ms interval. Additionally, LPP reactions to pleasant stimuli were similar across positive, neutral and negative moods except those in the 800–900 ms interval.ImplicationsNegative mood intensifies the humans' susceptibility to unpleasant events in healthy individuals. In contrast, music-induced happy mood is effective in reducing the susceptibility to these events. Practical implications of these findings were discussed.

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“…In particular, based on previous work showing that the N400 (Kutas & Federmeier, 2011) and late positive component (LPC; Kutas & Federmeier, 2011;Friedman & Johnson, 2000) reliably represent the strength of cross-modal memory associations, we expected to find that AP musicians will manifest stronger N400 effects as well as increased LPC manifestations. The N400 component has previously repeatedly been shown to constitute an objective marker for investigating the conceptual relatedness between visual and auditory representations, such as, for example, graphemes and phonemes (Proverbio, Vecchi, & Zani, 2004) as well as written nouns and sounds (Goerlich et al, 2012). Furthermore, even so the exact functional processes reflected by the LPC are much less clear than those of the N400 (Friedman & Johnson, 2000), this component has been proposed to be driven by the allocation of memory resources (Chung, Tong, & McBride-Chang, 2012;Ohara, Lenz, & Zhou, 2006).…”

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An Empirical Reevaluation of Absolute Pitch: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Measurements

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et al. 2013

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Here, we reevaluated the "two-component" model of absolute pitch (AP) by combining behavioral and electrophysiological measurements. This specific model postulates that AP is driven by a perceptual encoding ability (i.e., pitch memory) plus an associative memory component (i.e., pitch labeling). To test these predictions, during EEG measurements, AP and non-AP (NAP) musicians were passively exposed to piano tones (first component of the model) and additionally instructed to judge whether combinations of tones and labels were conceptually associated or not (second component of the model). Auditory-evoked N1/P2 potentials did not reveal differences between the two groups, thus indicating that AP is not necessarily driven by a differential pitch encoding ability at the processing level of the auditory cortex. Otherwise, AP musicians performed the conceptual association task with an order of magnitude better accuracy and shorter RTs than NAP musicians did, this result clearly pointing to distinctive conceptual associations in AP possessors. Most notably, this behavioral superiority was reflected by an increased N400 effect and accompanied by a subsequent late positive component, the latter not being distinguishable in NAP musicians. Abstract ■ Here, we reevaluated the "two-component" model of absolute pitch (AP) by combining behavioral and electrophysiological measurements. This specific model postulates that AP is driven by a perceptual encoding ability (i.e., pitch memory) plus an associative memory component (i.e., pitch labeling). To test these predictions, during EEG measurements AP and non-AP (NAP) musicians were passively exposed to piano tones (first component of the model) and additionally instructed to judge whether combinations of tones and labels were conceptually associated or not (second component of the model). Auditory-evoked N1/P2 potentials did not reveal differences between the two groups, thus indicating that AP is not necessarily driven by a differential pitch encoding ability at the processing level of the auditory cortex. Otherwise, AP musicians performed the conceptual association task with an order of magnitude better accuracy and shorter RTs than NAP musicians did, this result clearly pointing to distinctive conceptual associations in AP possessors. Most notably, this behavioral superiority was reflected by an increased N400 effect and accompanied by a subsequent late positive component, the latter not being distinguishable in NAP musicians. ■

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The Nature of Affective Priming in Music and Speech

Cited by 44 publications

References 61 publications

The effects of stereo disparity on the behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of perception of audio–visual motion in depth

The effects of stereo disparity on the behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of perception of audio–visual motion in depth

Negative Mood State Enhances the Susceptibility to Unpleasant Events: Neural Correlates from a Music-Primed Emotion Classification Task

An Empirical Reevaluation of Absolute Pitch: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Measurements

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