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| M TervaniemiSummaryAffiliation: University of Helsinki Country: Finland Publications
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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....
Differentiating ERAN and MMN: an ERP studyS Koelsch
Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany
Neuroreport 12:1385-9. 2001..The present ERPs thus provide evidence for a differentiation of cognitive processes underlying the fast and pre-attentive processing of auditory information...
