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Sam Norman-Haignere, Jenelle Feather, Dana Boebinger, Peter Brunner, Anthony Ritaccio, Josh H. McDermott, Gerwin Schalk, Nancy Kanwisher
Summary: This study developed a new method to investigate the neural code for music in the human auditory cortex using intracranial responses and fMRI. The results revealed that representations of music are fractionated into subpopulations selective for different types of music, with one subpopulation specialized for the analysis of songs.
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Courtney B. Hilton, Cody J. Moser, Mila Bertolo, Harry Lee-Rubin, Dorsa Amir, Constance M. Bainbridge, Jan Simson, Dean Knox, Luke Glowacki, Elias Alemu, Andrzej Galbarczyk, Grazyna Jasienska, Cody T. Ross, Mary Beth Neff, Alia Martin, Laura K. Cirelli, Sandra E. Trehub, Jinqi Song, Minju Kim, Adena Schachner, Tom A. Vardy, Quentin D. Atkinson, Amanda Salenius, Jannik Andelin, Jan Antfolk, Purnima Madhivanan, Anand Siddaiah, Caitlyn D. Placek, Gul Deniz Salali, Sarai Keestra, Manvir Singh, Scott A. Collins, John Q. Patton, Camila Scaff, Jonathan Stieglitz, Silvia Ccari Cutipa, Cristina Moya, Rohan R. Sagar, Mariamu Anyawire, Audax Mabulla, Brian M. Wood, Max M. Krasnow, Samuel A. Mehr
Summary: When interacting with infants, humans alter their speech and song to support communication, and this phenomenon is observed globally. Our study found that the acoustic features of infant-directed vocalizations differ across different cultures but in consistent patterns. Furthermore, listeners are able to accurately recognize these infant-directed vocalizations.
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Chu Yi Yu, Anne Cabildo, Jessica A. Grahn, Christina M. Vanden Bosch M. Der Nederlanden
Summary: This study examined the differences in rhythmic regularity between music and language through subjective ratings. The results showed that individuals have different definitions for rhythmic regularity, and it is challenging to find acoustic metrics to measure the differences. Experiment 2 found that participants rated songs as easier to tap or clap to than speech, and stimuli with longer syllable durations and less spectral flux were perceived as more rhythmically regular across domains.
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(2023)
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Stephen C. Van Hedger, Noah R. Bongiovanni, Huda Khudhair
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(2023)
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Xiaoluan Liu
Summary: The study found that ratings of accent/focus and expectation/surprise increased with greater pitch distances in both speech and music. However, the perceived boundary of prominence and expectation patterns differed between speech and music.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Neurosciences
Ilana Harris, Efe C. Niven, Alex Griffin, Sophie K. Scott
Summary: This article discusses whether the human brain processes singing voice distinctively and outlines the implications for auditory processing based on recent research suggesting selective neuronal responses to songs. The literature on the neural and physiological mechanisms of song production and perception is reviewed, providing evidence for key differences between song and speech processing. The significance of song processing is also discussed in relation to theories of neurobiological origins of vocal communication and understanding of sound processing in the human cortex.
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Li Wang, Peter Q. Pfordresher, Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu
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Li Wang, C. Philip Beaman, Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu
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JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2022)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Melissa J. Coleman, Stephanie A. White
Summary: Chronic pharmacologically driven bursting of cortical inputs to the basal ganglia can induce lasting changes to multiple vocal features of mature zebra finches, including phenomena reminiscent of human stuttering.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Jonathan H. Venezia, Virginia M. Richards, Gregory Hickok
Summary: A more sensitive method was used to re-analyze data, revealing STRF responses in non-auditory regions in addition to classic auditory regions. Left dPM showed strong functional connectivity with vocal pitch, while IFG responded predominantly to intelligible speech. calcS, modulated by emotion, may have responded to changes in vocal pitch quality.
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Psychology, Experimental
Malinda J. McPherson, Josh H. McDermott
Summary: Information in speech and music is conveyed through changes in fundamental frequency (f0), which is perceived as relative pitch. Relative pitch judgments are influenced by timbral differences and can be based on constituent frequencies or f0 estimates. This study examined the effects of timbre on relative pitch judgments and found that timbral differences influenced the accuracy and bias of pitch judgments. However, this effect was similar for harmonic and inharmonic sounds, and was observed even when judgments were based on f0 representations.
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Christina M. Vanden Bosch M. der Nederlanden, Xin Qi, Sarah Sequeira, Prakhar Seth, Jessica A. A. Grahn, Marc F. F. Joanisse, Erin E. E. Hannon
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DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
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Ashley A. E. Symons, Adam T. T. Tierney
Summary: Musical training predicts individual differences in prosodic cue weighting strategies. Musicians show enhanced dimension-selective attention to pitch, while nonmusicians show similar attention to loudness. Musicians weigh pitch more heavily during linguistic focus categorization, while nonmusicians weigh duration more heavily during phrase boundary categorization.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2023)
Editorial Material
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Liberty S. Hamilton
Summary: A new study suggests that the brain perceives singing, instrumental music, and speech through different neural populations rather than perceiving songs as speech with melody.
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Heather L. L. Kosakowski, Samuel Norman-Haignere, Anna Mynick, Atsushi Takahashi, Rebecca Saxe, Nancy Kanwisher
Summary: Prior studies have observed selective neural responses in the adult human auditory cortex to music and speech. This study aims to investigate whether infant cortex also exhibits similar selective responses shortly after birth. The researchers collected fMRI data from 45 sleeping infants and found that a set of voxels in non-primary auditory cortex (NPAC) responded significantly more to music than to other stimulus types. These preliminary findings suggest that music selectivity arises within the first month of life.
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
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Frederic Dick, Saloni Krishnan
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(2019)
Review
Neurosciences
Jom Diedrichsen, Maedbh King, Carlos Hernandez-Castillo, Marty Sereno, Richard B. Ivry
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Sijia Zhao, Nga Wai Yum, Lucas Benjamin, Elia Benhamou, Makoto Yoneya, Shigeto Furukawa, Fred Dick, Malcolm Slaney, Maria Chait
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(2019)
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Sijia Zhao, Maria Chait, Fred Dick, Peter Dayan, Shigeto Furukawa, Hsin-I Liao
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MICROSYSTEMS & NANOENGINEERING
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Fabien Balezeau, Benjamin Wilson, Guillermo Gallardo, Fred Dick, William Hopkins, Alfred Anwander, Angela D. Friederici, Timothy D. Griffiths, Christopher I. Petkov
NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
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Ivan Alvarez, Rebecca Smittenaar, Sian E. Handley, Alki Liasis, Martin I. Sereno, D. Samuel Schwarzkopf, Chris A. Clark
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Flavia Filimon, Jonathan D. Nelson, Terrence J. Sejnowski, Martin Sereno, Garrison W. Cottrell
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2020)
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Martin Sereno, Jorn Diedrichsen, Mohamed Tachrount, Guilherme Testa-Silva, Helen d'Arceuil, Chris De Zeeuw
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(2020)
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Kyle Jasmin, Frederic Dick, Lauren Stewart, Adam Taylor Tierney
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Saloni Krishnan, Daniel Carey, Frederic Dick, Marcus T. Pearce
Summary: Our study introduced a novel processing-based measure of statistical learning based on error position in sequence reproduction, assessing statistical learning in passive exposure, active reproduction, and explicit recognition tasks with artificial languages. Results showed that error position effects were consistent across auditory domains, while recall performance varied across experiments and showed little improvement due to statistical learning.
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(2021)
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Casey L. Roark, Matthew Lehet, Frederic Dick, Lori L. Holt
Summary: The study examines factors supporting incidental category learning, finding that it occurs reliably when auditory categories align with visuomotor demands of the primary task. Incidental learning does not occur when auditory categories are misaligned with task demands, or when motor responses are aligned with different visual features.
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(2022)
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Magdalena Kachlicka, Aeron Laffere, Fred Dick, Adam Tierney
Summary: To make sense of complex soundscapes, listeners must select and attend to task-relevant streams while ignoring uninformative sounds. One possible neural mechanism underlying this process is alignment of endogenous oscillations with the temporal structure of the target sound stream.
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Biology
Daniel Haenelt, Robert Trampel, Shahin Nasr, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Roger B. H. Tootell, Martin Sereno, Kerrin J. Pine, Luke J. Edwards, Saskia Helbling, Nikolaus Weiskopf
Summary: The characterization of cortical myelination is important for studying the relationship between brain structure and function, but current knowledge is based on post-mortem histology. This study used qMRI and ultra-high field strength fMRI to investigate myelination in the V2 cortex of living humans. The results demonstrate the feasibility of studying structure-function relationships in vivo using qMRI.
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Giada Guerra, Jurgen Tijms, Anniek Vaessen, Adam Tierney, Frederic Dick, Milene Bonte
Summary: This study investigated the influence of background speech intelligibility and loudness on children's reading speed and comprehension, finding that the two factors had differential effects on children's reading abilities. Intelligibility affected comprehension, while loudness affected reading speed, with the intelligibility effect being more prominent in children with lower interference control.
MIND BRAIN AND EDUCATION
(2021)