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Cortical Sensitivity to Guitar Note Patterns: EEG Entrainment to Repetition and Key
- Source :
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Music is ubiquitous throughout recent human culture, and many individual’s have an innate ability to appreciate and understand music. Our appreciation of music likely emerges from the brain’s ability to process a series of repeated complex acoustic patterns. In order to understand these processes further, cortical responses were measured to a series of guitar notes presented with a musical pattern or without a pattern. ERP responses to individual notes were measured using a 24 electrode Bluetooth mobile EEG system (Smarting mBrainTrain) while 13 healthy non-musicians listened to structured (i.e. within musical keys and with repetition) or random sequences of guitar notes for 10 minutes each. We demonstrate an increased amplitude to the ERP that appears ~200 ms to notes presented within the musical sequence. This amplitude difference between random notes and patterned notes likely reflects individual’s cortical sensitivity to guitar note patterns. These amplitudes were compared to ERP responses to a rare note embedded within a stream of frequent notes to determine whether the sensitivity to complex musical structure overlaps with the sensitivity to simple irregularities reflected in traditional auditory oddball experiments. Response amplitudes to the negative peak at ~175ms are statistically correlated with the mismatch negativity (MMN) response measured to a rare note presented among a series of frequent notes (i.e. in a traditional oddball sequence), but responses to the subsequent positive peak at ~200 do not show a statistical relationship with the P300 response. Thus, the sensitivity to musical structure identified to 4 Hz note patterns appears somewhat distinct from the sensitivity to statistical regularities reflected in the traditional “auditory oddball” sequence. Overall, we suggest that this is a promising approach to examine individual's sensitivity to complex acoustic patterns, which may overlap with higher level cognitive processes, including language.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Speech recognition
SSAEP
Auditory oddball
Mismatch negativity
mobile EEG
Electroencephalography
Audiology
behavioral disciplines and activities
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
music
Biological Psychiatry
Musical form
Original Research
medicine.diagnostic_test
05 social sciences
frequency tagging
Cognition
guitar
Psychiatry and Mental health
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Neurology
Negative peak
Guitar
Entrainment (chronobiology)
Psychology
oddball
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16625161
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in human neuroscience
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....055289899207437cf9fff1887eb84e7b