Topographic EEG activations during timbre and pitch discrimination tasks using musical sounds

Auzou, Pascal; Eustache, Francis; Etevenon, P.; Platel, Hervé; Rioux, Patrice; Lambert, Jacques; Lechevalier, B; Zarifian, E.

doi:10.1016/0028-3932(94)00100-4

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“…This finding is in accordance with a substantial amount of literature which reports a right hemisphere dominance for the processing of timbre information (Milner, 1962;Mazzucchi et al, 1982;Samson and Zatorre, 1993;Auzou et al, 1995;Jones et al, 1998). The right predominance for the deviant instruments compared to the clusters is also reflected in the EEG data of a previous experiment (Koelsch et al, 2000a) in which both clusters and deviant instruments elicited an early ERP-wave which was lateralized to the right, but in which a later ERP-wave was rightlateralized only when elicited by deviant instruments.…”

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“…Hence, the present activations cannot just be due to the processing of auditory oddballs or to the mere processing of complex sounds. With this respect, it is highly probable that the embeddedness of a deviant acoustic event in a complex, rule-based linguistic or musical context is a prerequisite for the present activations (for studies investigating the neural mechanisms of timbre processing see also Samson and Zatorre, 1993;Auzou et al, 1995;Jones et al, 1998;Toivianinen et al, 1998;Tervaniemi et al, 1997;Platel et al, 1997;Crummer et al, 1994).…”

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Bach Speaks: A Cortical “Language-Network” Serves the Processing of Music

2002

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The aim of the present study was the investigation of neural correlates of music processing with fMRI. Chord sequences were presented to the participants, infrequently containing unexpected musical events. These events activated the areas of Broca and Wernicke, the superior temporal sulcus, Heschl's gyrus, both planum polare and planum temporale, as well as the anterior superior insular cortices. Some of these brain structures have previously been shown to be involved in music processing, but the cortical network comprising all these structures has up to now been thought to be domain-specific for language processing. To what extent this network might also be activated by the processing of non-linguistic information has remained unknown. The present fMRI-data reveal that the human brain employs this neuronal network also for the processing of musical information, suggesting that the cortical network known to support language processing is less domain-specific than previously believed. © 2002 Elsevier Science (USA)

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“…This is in line with the general notion of right hemisphere dominance in the perception of musical sounds [1,17,34,39,41]. This left ear advantage, however, lacks robustness, as the following brief summary of the literature will show.…”

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Laterality in the perception of temporal cues of musical timbre

Brancucci

Martini

1999

Neuropsychologia

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Laterality in the perception of non-stationary aspects of musical timbre was investigated in 54 right-handed non-musicians. Timbre di erences were produced by altering the amplitude envelope of a steady-state complex tone. Two single-choice tests with attention directed to one ear were usedÐa dichotic test and a monaural test with contralateral white noise. Dependent variables were reaction time and accuracy. Both tests showed a signi®cant left ear advantage for reaction time. For the accuracy variable, a signi®cant left ear advantage was found only in the monaural test. Results are brie¯y discussed in terms of their compatibility with the generally accepted notion that spectral and temporal integrations of sounds are primarily functions of the right and left hemisphere, respectively. #

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“…Timbre may be processed in the left hemisphere because temporal information, especially the attack or initial part of a tone, appears to be important for the identification of musical instruments [4,33]. However, some studies of timbre recognition have failed to show any ear advantage [14,30,32,35], while others have suggested right-hemisphere dominance [2,13,23,24,31,34]. Therefore, although there is good theoretical reason to believe that the processing of timbre may involve the left hemisphere, current data do not support this view.…”

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Laterality effects in the processing of melody and timbre

Boucher

Bryden

1997

Neuropsychologia

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Abstraet--Laterality for the processing of melody and timbre was investigated in 64 right-handed non-musicians. In one block of dichotic-listening trials, participants listened for a prespecified target melody, and in a second block they listened for a prespecified target instrument. Females were more accurate on the left ear in the melody task (whereas males tended to show no ear advantage), but there were no significant ear differences in the timbre task for either sex. This supports the idea of a complementary sex-based pattern of lateralization, with males more strongly lateralized for verbal stimuli and females more strongly lateralized for non-verbal stimuli. No relation was observed between lambda measures for the two tasks, suggesting that laterality for melody processing is independent of laterality for timbre processing. © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd

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Topographic EEG activations during timbre and pitch discrimination tasks using musical sounds

Cited by 51 publications

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Bach Speaks: A Cortical “Language-Network” Serves the Processing of Music

Bach Speaks: A Cortical “Language-Network” Serves the Processing of Music

Laterality in the perception of temporal cues of musical timbre

Laterality effects in the processing of melody and timbre

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