To assess domain specificity of experience-dependent pitch representation
we evaluated the mismatch negativity (MMN) and discrimination judgments
of English musicians, English nonmusicians, and native Chinese for
pitch contours presented in a nonspeech context using a passive oddball
paradigm. Stimuli consisted of homologues of Mandarin high rising
(T2) and high level (T1) tones, and a linear rising ramp (T2L). One
condition involved a between-category contrast (T1/T2), the other,
a within-category contrast (T2L/T2). Irrespective of condition, musicians
and Chinese showed larger MMN responses than nonmusicians; Chinese
larger than musicians. Chinese, however, were less accurate than
nonnatives in overt discrimination of T2L and T2. Taken together,
these findings suggest that experience-dependent effects to pitch
contours are domain-general and not driven by linguistic categories.
Yet specific differences in long-term experience in pitch processing
between domains (music vs. language) may lead to gradations in cortical
plasticity to pitch contours.
Chandrasekaran, Krishnan, Gandour_2009_Relative influence of musical and linguistic experience on early cortical processing of pitch contours.pdf:Chandrasekaran, Krishnan, Gandour_2009_Relative influence of musical and linguistic experience on early cortical processing of pitch contours.pdf:PDF
%0 Journal Article
%1 Chandrasekaran2009
%A Chandrasekaran, Bharath
%A Krishnan, Ananthanarayan
%A Gandour, Jackson T.
%D 2009
%J Brain and Language
%K Acoustic Adult,language,music,musicality,neuro,perception,pitch,tone Negative Perception,Pitch Perception,Speech Perception: Performance,Psychomotor Performance: Potentials,Female,Humans,L1,L2,Language,Male,Music,Phonetics,Pitch Stimulation,Acoustic Stimulation: Time,Reaction Time: Variance,Auditory,Auditory: Variation,Contingent Variation: methods,Adult,Analysis methods,Evoked of physiology,Contingent physiology,Electroencephalography,Electroencephalography: physiology,Psychomotor physiology,Reaction physiology,Speech physiology,Young
%N 1
%P 1--9
%R 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.02.001
%T Relative influence of musical and linguistic experience on early
cortical processing of pitch contours
%U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18343493
%V 108
%X To assess domain specificity of experience-dependent pitch representation
we evaluated the mismatch negativity (MMN) and discrimination judgments
of English musicians, English nonmusicians, and native Chinese for
pitch contours presented in a nonspeech context using a passive oddball
paradigm. Stimuli consisted of homologues of Mandarin high rising
(T2) and high level (T1) tones, and a linear rising ramp (T2L). One
condition involved a between-category contrast (T1/T2), the other,
a within-category contrast (T2L/T2). Irrespective of condition, musicians
and Chinese showed larger MMN responses than nonmusicians; Chinese
larger than musicians. Chinese, however, were less accurate than
nonnatives in overt discrimination of T2L and T2. Taken together,
these findings suggest that experience-dependent effects to pitch
contours are domain-general and not driven by linguistic categories.
Yet specific differences in long-term experience in pitch processing
between domains (music vs. language) may lead to gradations in cortical
plasticity to pitch contours.
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we evaluated the mismatch negativity (MMN) and discrimination judgments
of English musicians, English nonmusicians, and native Chinese for
pitch contours presented in a nonspeech context using a passive oddball
paradigm. Stimuli consisted of homologues of Mandarin high rising
(T2) and high level (T1) tones, and a linear rising ramp (T2L). One
condition involved a between-category contrast (T1/T2), the other,
a within-category contrast (T2L/T2). Irrespective of condition, musicians
and Chinese showed larger MMN responses than nonmusicians; Chinese
larger than musicians. Chinese, however, were less accurate than
nonnatives in overt discrimination of T2L and T2. Taken together,
these findings suggest that experience-dependent effects to pitch
contours are domain-general and not driven by linguistic categories.
Yet specific differences in long-term experience in pitch processing
between domains (music vs. language) may lead to gradations in cortical
plasticity to pitch contours.},
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