Differences in mismatch responses to vowels and musical intervals: MEG evidence.


Autoria(s): Bergelson, E; Shvartsman, M; Idsardi, WJ
Cobertura

United States

Data(s)

2013

Resumo

We investigated the electrophysiological response to matched two-formant vowels and two-note musical intervals, with the goal of examining whether music is processed differently from language in early cortical responses. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we compared the mismatch-response (MMN/MMF, an early, pre-attentive difference-detector occurring approximately 200 ms post-onset) to musical intervals and vowels composed of matched frequencies. Participants heard blocks of two stimuli in a passive oddball paradigm in one of three conditions: sine waves, piano tones and vowels. In each condition, participants heard two-formant vowels or musical intervals whose frequencies were 11, 12, or 24 semitones apart. In music, 12 semitones and 24 semitones are perceived as highly similar intervals (one and two octaves, respectively), while in speech 12 semitones and 11 semitones formant separations are perceived as highly similar (both variants of the vowel in 'cut'). Our results indicate that the MMN response mirrors the perceptual one: larger MMNs were elicited for the 12-11 pairing in the music conditions than in the language condition; conversely, larger MMNs were elicited to the 12-24 pairing in the language condition that in the music conditions, suggesting that within 250 ms of hearing complex auditory stimuli, the neural computation of similarity, just as the behavioral one, differs significantly depending on whether the context is music or speech.

Formato

e76758 - ?

Identificador

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24143193

PONE-D-13-13462

PLoS One, 2013, 8 (10), pp. e76758 - ?

http://hdl.handle.net/10161/12629

1932-6203

Idioma(s)

eng

Relação

PLoS One

10.1371/journal.pone.0076758

Palavras-Chave #Acoustics #Adult #Auditory Perception #Brain #Electrophysiological Processes #Female #Humans #Language #Magnetoencephalography #Male #Music #Young Adult
Tipo

Journal Article