M Tervaniemi

Summary

Affiliation: University of Helsinki
Country: Finland

Publications

  1. ncbi Musical sound processing in the human brain. Evidence from electric and magnetic recordings
    M 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
  2. ncbi Effects of spectral complexity and sound duration on automatic complex-sound pitch processing in humans - a mismatch negativity study
    M 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
  3. ncbi Lateralized automatic auditory processing of phonetic versus musical information: a PET study
    M Tervaniemi
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Hum Brain Mapp 10:74-9. 2000
  4. ncbi Test-retest reliability of mismatch negativity for duration, frequency and intensity changes
    M Tervaniemi
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Clin Neurophysiol 110:1388-93. 1999
  5. ncbi Pre-attentive discriminability of sound order as a function of tone duration and interstimulus interval: a mismatch negativity study
    M Tervaniemi
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Audiol Neurootol 4:303-10. 1999
  6. ncbi Harmonic partials facilitate pitch discrimination in humans: electrophysiological and behavioral evidence
    M Tervaniemi
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Neurosci Lett 279:29-32. 2000
  7. ncbi The processing of sound duration after left hemisphere stroke: event-related potential and behavioral evidence
    T M Ilvonen
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Psychophysiology 38:622-8. 2001
  8. ncbi Top-down modulation of auditory processing: effects of sound context, musical expertise and attentional focus
    M Tervaniemi
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Eur J Neurosci 30:1636-42. 2009
  9. ncbi Selective tuning of the left and right auditory cortices during spatially directed attention
    K 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
  10. ncbi 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

Detail Information

Publications28

  1. ncbi Musical sound processing in the human brain. Evidence from electric and magnetic recordings
    M 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...
  2. ncbi Effects of spectral complexity and sound duration on automatic complex-sound pitch processing in humans - a mismatch negativity study
    M 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...
  3. ncbi Lateralized automatic auditory processing of phonetic versus musical information: a PET study
    M 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...
  4. ncbi Test-retest reliability of mismatch negativity for duration, frequency and intensity changes
    M 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...
  5. ncbi Pre-attentive discriminability of sound order as a function of tone duration and interstimulus interval: a mismatch negativity study
    M Tervaniemi
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Audiol Neurootol 4:303-10. 1999
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  6. ncbi Harmonic partials facilitate pitch discrimination in humans: electrophysiological and behavioral evidence
    M 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...
  7. ncbi The processing of sound duration after left hemisphere stroke: event-related potential and behavioral evidence
    T 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...
  8. ncbi Top-down modulation of auditory processing: effects of sound context, musical expertise and attentional focus
    M 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...
  9. ncbi Selective tuning of the left and right auditory cortices during spatially directed attention
    K 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
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  10. ncbi 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...
  11. ncbi Superior formation of cortical memory traces for melodic patterns in musicians
    M Tervaniemi
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
    Learn Mem 8:295-300. 2001
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  12. ncbi Selective tuning of cortical sound-feature processing by language experience
    M 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...
  13. ncbi Practice strategies of musicians modulate neural processing and the learning of sound-patterns
    M Seppanen
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Neurobiol Learn Mem 87:236-47. 2007
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  14. ncbi The musical brain: brain waves reveal the neurophysiological basis of musicality in human subjects
    M Tervaniemi
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Neurosci Lett 226:1-4. 1997
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  15. ncbi 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...
  16. ncbi Basic auditory dysfunction in dyslexia as demonstrated by brain activity measurements
    T 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...
  17. ncbi Background acoustic noise and the hemispheric lateralization of speech processing in the human brain: magnetic mismatch negativity study
    Y 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...
  18. ncbi Musical training facilitates the neural discrimination of major versus minor chords in 13-year-old children
    P 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...
  19. ncbi Expertise in folk music alters the brain processing of Western harmony
    M 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...
  20. ncbi Plastic neural changes and reading improvement caused by audiovisual training in reading-impaired children
    T 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...
  21. ncbi The development of aesthetic responses to music and their underlying neural and psychological mechanisms
    S Nieminen
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Cortex 47:1138-46. 2011
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  22. ncbi Pre-attentive processing of spectrally complex sounds with asynchronous onsets: an event-related potential study with human subjects
    M 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...
  23. ncbi Psychosocial stress attenuates general sound processing and duration change detection
    V 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...
  24. ncbi The mismatch negativity as an index of temporal processing in audition
    T 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...
  25. ncbi Frequency specific impairment of automatic pitch change detection by fMRI acoustic noise: an MEG study
    N 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...
  26. ncbi Auditory sensory memory disorder in dyslexic adults as indexed by the mismatch negativity
    T 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...
  27. ncbi "Primitive intelligence" in the auditory cortex
    R Naatanen
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Dept of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Trends Neurosci 24:283-8. 2001
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  28. ncbi Differentiating ERAN and MMN: an ERP study
    S 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...