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The musical brain: brain waves reveal the neurophysiological basis of musicality in human subjectsM Tervaniemi
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Neurosci Lett 226:1-4. 1997....
Musicians--same or different?Mari Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1169:151-6. 2009..The present contribution will review the evidence available about the various neurocognitive profiles these different kinds of musicians display...- Parameter-specific modulation of the mismatch negativity to duration decrement and increment: evidence for asymmetric processesRika Takegata
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, PO Box 9, University of Helsinki, Finland and Helsinki Brain Research Centre, Finland
Clin Neurophysiol 119:1515-23. 2008..Some asymmetries were reported in the previous studies; yet no systematical study has been conducted... - From air oscillations to music and speech: functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for fine-tuned neural networks in auditionMari Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Brain Research Centre, FIN 00014, Helsinki, Finland
J Neurosci 26:8647-52. 2006..They indicate that not only the sound category (speech/music) but also the sound parameter (pitch/duration) can be selectively encoded... - Sound processing in amateur musicians and nonmusicians: event-related potential and behavioral indicesMari Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Neuroreport 17:1225-8. 2006..This suggests that when compared with nonmusicians, even amateur musicians have neural sound processing advantages with acoustic information most essential to their musical genre... - Expertise in folk music alters the brain processing of Western harmonyM Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Cognitive Science, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1252:147-51. 2012..This result, obtained by using early right anterior negativity (ERAN) as an index of harmony processing, suggests that tonal processing is advanced in folk musicians by their long-term exposure to both Western and non-Western music... - Top-down modulation of auditory processing: effects of sound context, musical expertise and attentional focusM Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Eur J Neurosci 30:1636-42. 2009..In other words, the processing of sounds is realized by a dynamically adapting network considering type of sound, expertise and attentional demands, rather than by a strictly modularly organized stimulus-driven system... 
Superior formation of cortical memory traces for melodic patterns in musiciansM Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Learn Mem 8:295-300. 2001....- The promises of change-related brain potentials in cognitive neuroscience of musicMari Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Ann N Y Acad Sci 999:29-39. 2003..To some extent, musical expertise is also reflected in sound representation accuracy as indexed by the MMN paradigm... - Test-retest stability of the magnetic mismatch response (MMNm)Mari Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P O Box 9, Finland
Clin Neurophysiol 116:1897-905. 2005..We investigated the replicability of the magnetically measured mismatch negativity (MMNm)... - Importance of the left auditory areas in chord discrimination in music experts as demonstrated by MEGMari Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Cognitive Science, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Eur J Neurosci 34:517-23. 2011.... - Lateralization of auditory-cortex functionsMari Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Brain Res Brain Res Rev 43:231-46. 2003..right auditory areas contribute to sound encoding... - Pitch discrimination accuracy in musicians vs nonmusicians: an event-related potential and behavioral studyMari Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki Brain Research Centre, PO Box 9, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Exp Brain Res 161:1-10. 2005..These results suggest that musical expertise may exert its effects merely at attentive levels of processing and not necessarily already at the preattentive levels... - Selective tuning of cortical sound-feature processing by language experienceM Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Eur J Neurosci 23:2538-41. 2006..This result, obtained both by behavioural and neural indices at attentive and automatic levels of processing, indicates precise feature-specific tuning of the auditory-cortex functions by the mother tongue... - Pre-attentive processing of spectrally complex sounds with asynchronous onsets: an event-related potential study with human subjectsM Tervaniemi
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Neurosci Lett 227:197-200. 1997..In summary, the present results support the existence of pre-perceptual integration mechanism of 100-200 ms duration and emphasize its importance in switching attention towards the stimulus change... - The processing of sound duration after left hemisphere stroke: event-related potential and behavioral evidenceT M Ilvonen
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Psychophysiology 38:622-8. 2001..Especially by recording MMN to monaural stimuli, the discrimination accuracy can be separately determined for the left and right temporal lobes... - Selective tuning of the left and right auditory cortices during spatially directed attentionK Alho
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P O Box 13, FIN 00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 7:335-41. 1999.... - Practice strategies of musicians modulate neural processing and the learning of sound-patternsM Seppanen
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Neurobiol Learn Mem 87:236-47. 2007.... - Are different kinds of acoustic features processed differently for speech and non-speech sounds?M Jaramillo
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 13, FIN 00014, Helsinki, Finland
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 12:459-66. 2001..This result might reflect enhanced processing of duration features in the Finnish language in which phoneme duration plays a critical role... - Preattentive representation of feature conjunctions for concurrent spatially distributed auditory objectsRika Takegata
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Budapest, Hungary
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 25:169-79. 2005..The discrepancy between the results obtained with and without focal attention suggests that illusory conjunctions may occur during voluntary access to the preattentively encoded object representations... - Pre-attentive discriminability of sound order as a function of tone duration and interstimulus interval: a mismatch negativity studyM Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Audiol Neurootol 4:303-10. 1999.... - Fast vigilance decrement in closed head injury patients as reflected by the mismatch negativity (MMN)M L Kaipio
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Neuroreport 12:1517-22. 2001..However, the MMN amplitude for the pitch deviant decreased in the patient group during the experiment considerably faster than in controls, suggesting a faster vigilance decrement in the patients... - Plastic neural changes and reading improvement caused by audiovisual training in reading-impaired childrenT Kujala
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P O Box 13, University of Helsinki, FIN 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:10509-14. 2001..Moreover, the fact that the present training effects were obtained by using a program including no linguistic material indicates that dyslexia is at least partly based on a general auditory perceptual deficit... - Test-retest reliability of mismatch negativity for duration, frequency and intensity changesM Tervaniemi
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Clin Neurophysiol 110:1388-93. 1999..The test-retest reliabilities of the mismatch negativity (MMN) elicited by deviances in sound duration, frequency, and intensity were compared... - Effects of spectral complexity and sound duration on automatic complex-sound pitch processing in humans - a mismatch negativity studyM Tervaniemi
Department of Psychology, Cognitive Brain Research Unit, University of Helsinki, P O Box 13, FIN 00014, Helsinki, Finland
Neurosci Lett 290:66-70. 2000..The prolonged sound duration did not significantly enhance the MMN. This suggests that increased spectral rather than temporal information facilitates pitch processing of spectrally rich sounds... - Basic auditory dysfunction in dyslexia as demonstrated by brain activity measurementsT Kujala
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Psychophysiology 37:262-6. 2000..This failure can be traced to early cortical mechanisms that process auditory information independently of attention... - Harmonic partials facilitate pitch discrimination in humans: electrophysiological and behavioral evidenceM Tervaniemi
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Neurosci Lett 279:29-32. 2000..Together these data indicate that pre-attentive and attentive pitch discrimination is facilitated with spectrally rich sounds in comparison to pure sinusoidal tones... - Background acoustic noise and the hemispheric lateralization of speech processing in the human brain: magnetic mismatch negativity studyY Shtyrov
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Neurosci Lett 251:141-4. 1998..However, in noisy conditions the involvement of the left hemisphere's auditory cortex in speech discrimination is considerably decreased, while that of the right hemisphere increases... - Lateralized automatic auditory processing of phonetic versus musical information: a PET studyM Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Hum Brain Mapp 10:74-9. 2000..The data thus indicate that automatic activation of lateralized neuronal circuits requires sound comparison based on short-term sound representations... - Simultaneous storage of two complex temporal sound patterns in auditory sensory memoryElvira Brattico
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, PO Box 13, FIN 00014, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Brain Research Centre, Finland
Neuroreport 13:1747-51. 2002..The infrequent sound pattern elicited an MMN, indicating that multiple sound patterns are formed at an early, largely automatic stage of auditory processing... - Musical training facilitates the neural discrimination of major versus minor chords in 13-year-old childrenP Virtala
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Cognitive Science, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Psychophysiology 49:1125-32. 2012..Thus, the conceptual discrimination skills are present already in the preattentive processing level of the auditory cortex, and musical training can advance these skills... - Frequency specific impairment of automatic pitch change detection by fMRI acoustic noise: an MEG studyN Novitski
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki Brain Research Center, Finland
J Neurosci Methods 155:149-59. 2006..It is recommended that in the MMN protocols using continuous fMRI acquisition the sound stimuli should be spectrally separated from the fMRI scanner noise spectrum... - The mismatch negativity as an index of temporal processing in auditionT Kujala
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P O Box 13, University of Helsinki, FIN 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Clin Neurophysiol 112:1712-9. 2001..The relation of the mismatch negativity (MMN) elicitation with behavioral stimulus discrimination as well as the replicability of the MMN was evaluated for intervals between paired tones... - Representation of harmony rules in the human brain: further evidence from event-related potentialsSakari Leino
Apperception and Cortical Dynamics, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Brain Res 1142:169-77. 2007..In conclusion, violations of the harmony and tuning rules of Western tonal music were found to generate specific and distinct electric responses in the human brain... - The development of aesthetic responses to music and their underlying neural and psychological mechanismsS Nieminen
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Cortex 47:1138-46. 2011.... - Musical sound processing in the human brain. Evidence from electric and magnetic recordingsM Tervaniemi
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P O Box 13, FIN 00014, University of Helsinki, Finland
Ann N Y Acad Sci 930:259-72. 2001..These data thus suggest that despite the focus of listeners' conscious attention, relatively complex sound phenomena can be encoded by neural mechanisms that are specialized for musical sounds... - Psychosocial stress attenuates general sound processing and duration change detectionV L Simoens
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Psychophysiology 44:30-8. 2007..We found that psychosocial stressor anticipation attenuates both general and deviance-specific sound processing, suggesting that cortisol interferes with cortical memory-trace formation... - Heschl's gyrus, posterior superior temporal gyrus, and mid-ventrolateral prefrontal cortex have different roles in the detection of acoustic changesMarc Schönwiesner
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
J Neurophysiol 97:2075-82. 2007.... - Auditory sensory memory disorder in dyslexic adults as indexed by the mismatch negativityT Kujala
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, and Finland Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P O Box 13, FIN 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Eur J Neurosci 17:1323-7. 2003..These results suggest impaired cortical discrimination of sounds and lowered tolerance for the masking effects of rapidly following sounds in dyslexia... - Musical scale properties are automatically processed in the human auditory cortexElvira Brattico
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Brain Res 1117:162-74. 2006..Our results indicate that the relational properties of the musical scale are quickly and automatically extracted by the auditory cortex even before the intervention of focused attention... - Neonatal frequency discrimination in 250-4000-Hz range: electrophysiological evidenceNikolai Novitski
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Brain Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
Clin Neurophysiol 118:412-9. 2007..The precision of sound frequency discrimination in newborn infants in the 250-4000-Hz frequency range was determined using the neonatal electrophysiological mismatch response (MMR), the infant equivalent of adult mismatch negativity (MMN)... - Music and speech listening enhance the recovery of early sensory processing after strokeTeppo Särkämö
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Cogn Neurosci 22:2716-27. 2010..The neural mechanisms potentially underlying this effect are discussed... - Cognitive vs. affective listening modes and judgments of music--an ERP studyElvira Brattico
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Biol Psychol 85:393-409. 2010..This is the first study to reveal the dissociation between neural processes occurring during affective vs. cognitive listening modes and judgments of music... - Music listening enhances cognitive recovery and mood after middle cerebral artery strokeTeppo Särkämö
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, and Helsinki Brain Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland
Brain 131:866-76. 2008..These findings demonstrate for the first time that music listening during the early post-stroke stage can enhance cognitive recovery and prevent negative mood. The neural mechanisms potentially underlying these effects are discussed... - Neural discrimination of nonprototypical chords in music experts and laymen: an MEG studyElvira Brattico
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Cogn Neurosci 21:2230-44. 2009..Most likely, this results from a highly sophisticated auditory system in musicians allowing a more efficient discrimination of chords deviating from the conventional categories of tonal music... - Cognitive deficits associated with acquired amusia after stroke: a neuropsychological follow-up studyTeppo Särkämö
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Neuropsychologia 47:2642-51. 2009..Together, these results suggest the ability to perceive music is closely linked to other higher cognitive functions... - Brain responses to surprising sounds are related to temperament and parent-child dyadic synchrony in young childrenAnu Katriina Pesonen
Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, PO Box 9, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Dev Psychobiol 52:513-23. 2010..The results demonstrate that temperament is related to P3a responses in early childhood, and that parent-child synchrony associates with both temperament and P3a responses in a theoretically meaningful way... - Amusia and cognitive deficits after stroke: is there a relationship?Teppo Särkämö
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1169:441-5. 2009..These findings thus suggest that domain-general attention, executive, and working memory processes are associated with amusia after stroke... - Implicit, intuitive, and explicit knowledge of abstract regularities in a sound sequence: an event-related brain potential studyTitia L van Zuijen
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Cogn Neurosci 18:1292-303. 2006..Intuitive deviant detection was not accompanied by P3 elicitation whereas subjects who developed explicit knowledge of the sound sequence during the training did show a P3 to the detected deviants... - The mismatch negativity in cognitive and clinical neuroscience: theoretical and methodological considerationsTeija Kujala
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, FIN 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Biol Psychol 74:1-19. 2007..Thereafter, issues which need to be taken into account in MMN investigations as well as new improved recording paradigms are discussed... - Frequency discrimination at different frequency levels as indexed by electrophysiological and behavioral measuresNikolai Novitski
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 20:26-36. 2004..8). The harmonical tones elicited MMN and P3a with shorter latencies and larger amplitudes, than did pure sinusoidal tones in all frequency bands. The results may have implication to pitch-perception theories... - Cortical correlates of acquired deafness to dissonanceElvira Brattico
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki FIN 00014, Finland
Ann N Y Acad Sci 999:158-60. 2003..We additionally found that the electrical brain responses did not differentiate musical intervals in terms of their dissonance/consonance, consistent with the idea that this phenomenon depends on the integrity of cortical functions... - Long-term exposure to occupational noise alters the cortical organization of sound processingElvira Brattico
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P O Box 9 Siltavuorenpenger 20 C, FIN 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Clin Neurophysiol 116:190-203. 2005..Long-term exposure to noise may cause an altered hemispheric lateralization of speech processing even in silent conditions. We examined whether this lateralization shift is speech specific or occurs also for other sounds... - Electrical brain responses to descriptive versus evaluative judgments of musicElvira Brattico
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki FIN 00014, Finland
Ann N Y Acad Sci 999:155-7. 2003..Results showed that aesthetic listening generated greater right frontocentral negativities than did descriptive listening, indicating distinct cortical mechanisms for aesthetic versus descriptive processing of music... - Effects of brief discrimination-training on the auditory N1 waveElvira Brattico
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, PL 9, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Neuroreport 14:2489-92. 2003..After training N1 s were attenuated to all tones except the trained and repeated ones, indicating a refractory frequency effect, long-term habituation, and sensitization to the repeated and trained tones... - Auditory organization of sound sequences by a temporal or numerical regularity--a mismatch negativity study comparing musicians and non-musiciansTitia L van Zuijen
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P O Box 9 Siltavuorenpenger 20 C, FIN 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 23:270-6. 2005..Furthermore, the auditory system of professional musicians can encode a numerical regularity without attention being required reflecting the functional importance of beat tracking in the perceptual organization of music... - Selective attention to human voice enhances brain activity bilaterally in the superior temporal sulcusKimmo Alho
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Brain Res 1075:142-50. 2006.... - Grouping of sequential sounds--an event-related potential study comparing musicians and nonmusiciansTitia L van Zuijen
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Cogn Neurosci 16:331-8. 2004..These results suggest that some forms of auditory grouping depend on musical skill and that not all aspects of auditory grouping are universal... - Hemispheric lateralization of cerebral blood-flow changes during selective listening to dichotically presented continuous speechKimmo Alho
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 17:201-11. 2003..Evidence was also found for attentional tuning of the left and right auditory cortices to select information from the contralateral auditory hemispace... - "Primitive intelligence" in the auditory cortexR Naatanen
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Dept of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Trends Neurosci 24:283-8. 2001.... - Long-term exposure to noise impairs cortical sound processing and attention controlTeija Kujala
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
Psychophysiology 41:875-81. 2004..These results demonstrate that long-term exposure to noise has long-lasting detrimental effects on central auditory processing and attention control... - Informal musical activities are linked to auditory discrimination and attention in 2-3-year-old children: an event-related potential studyV Putkinen
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Cognitive Science, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, PO Box 9, 00014, Helsinki, Finland Finnish Centre of Excellence for Interdisciplinary Music Research, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
Eur J Neurosci 37:654-61. 2013..Our results highlight the significance of informal musical experiences in enhancing the development of highly important auditory abilities in early childhood... - Brain research reveals automatic musical memory functions in childrenMinna Huotilainen
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1169:178-81. 2009..We present two brain research paradigms that can be used to assess the specialization of the brain for musical sounds, and show promising results with these paradigms in a group of young children who have music as their hobby... - Preattentive auditory context effectsIstvan Winkler
Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 3:57-77. 2003..The close correspondence found between the effects of auditory context on the perceptual and preattentive measures of auditory grouping suggests that a large part of contextual processing is preattentive... - Preattentive processing of lexical tone perception by the human brain as indexed by the mismatch negativity paradigmWichian Sittiprapaporn
Institute of Science Technology for Research and Development, Mahidol University at Salaya Campus, Nakhonpathom 73170, Thailand
Ann N Y Acad Sci 999:199-203. 2003..Hearing a native-language deviant significantly altered the elicited MMN in both amplitude and scalp voltage field distribution, reflecting the presence of a long-term memory trace for spoken words in tonal languages... - Exploration of roughness by means of the mismatch negativity paradigmWouter De Baene
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Ann N Y Acad Sci 999:170-2. 2003..The results suggest that when the sounds are not attended to, roughness is reflected by the mismatch positivity as evidenced at the mastoid electrodes... - Linguistic processing in visual and modality-nonspecific brain areas: PET recordings during selective attentionVictor A Vorobyev
Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 20:309-22. 2004.... - Abnormal electrical brain responses to pitch in congenital amusiaIsabelle Peretz
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Neurol 58:478-82. 2005..This abnormal brain response begins as early as 200 milliseconds after tone onset and may serve as a marker of an anomaly in music acquisition... - Separate neural processing of timbre dimensions in auditory sensory memoryAnne Caclin
Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique STMS IRCAM CNRS, Paris, France
J Cogn Neurosci 18:1959-72. 2006..The results expand to timbre dimensions a property of separation of the representation in sensory memory that has already been reported between basic perceptual attributes (pitch, loudness, duration, and location) of sound sources... - Preattentive discrimination of across-category and within-category change in consonant-vowel syllableWichian Sittiprapaporn
Neuro Behavioural Biology Center, Institute of Science and Technology for Research and Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Nakhonpathom, Thailand
Neuroreport 16:1513-8. 2005..The results support the hypothesis that a part of the superior temporal gyrus contains neurons specialized for speech perception... - Sound perception affected by nonlinear variation of accuracy in memory traceHirooki Yabe
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036 8562, Japan
Neuroreport 15:2813-7. 2004..In sum, the discriminative sensitivity nonlinearly declined toward the end of the TWI, suggesting that the time-wise accuracy of the neural trace nonlinearly varies in sensory memory... - Binding symbols and sounds: evidence from event-related oscillatory gamma-band activityAndreas Widmann
Institute of Psychology I, University of Leipzig, Seeburgstrasse 14 20, D 04103, Leipzig, Germany
Cereb Cortex 17:2696-702. 2007..Gamma-band responses were not present for unexpected incongruent sounds. A model explaining the anticipatory activation of cortical auditory representations and the match of experience against expectation is presented... - Modulation of the mismatch negativity (MMN) to vowel duration changes in native speakers of Finnish and German as a result of language experienceUrsula Kirmse
Institut fur Psychologie I, Universitat Leipzig, Seeburgstrasse 14 20, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 67:131-43. 2008.... - Musical aptitude and second language pronunciation skills in school-aged children: neural and behavioral evidenceRiia Milovanov
Department of English, University of Turku, Finland
Brain Res 1194:81-9. 2008..Taken together, the results imply that musical and linguistic skills could partly be based on shared neural mechanisms... - From symbols to sounds: visual symbolic information activates sound representationsAndreas Widmann
Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, University of Leipzig, Germany
Psychophysiology 41:709-15. 2004..These results suggest that the auditory system can establish a representation of an expected stimulus on the basis of visual symbolic information... - Roughness perception in sounds: behavioral and ERP evidenceWouter De Baene
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Biol Psychol 67:319-30. 2004..93) and did not increase monotonously with increasing modulation index. We conclude that perceived roughness rather than its physical correlate in sounds is reflected by the MMN and that roughness is thus preattentively encoded... - Modification of dichotic listening (DL) performance by musico-linguistic abilities and ageRiia Milovanov
Department of English, University of Turku, 20014, Finland
Brain Res 1156:168-73. 2007..Thus, regular music practice may have a modulatory effect on the brain's linguistic organization and therefore, the beneficial effects of music on other cognitive skills should not be underestimated...