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1. Neuromagnetic representation of musical roundness in chord progressions

Author

Sophie D. Wöhrle, Christoph Reuter, André Rupp, and Martin Andermann

Subjects
MEG, auditory evoked fields, musicality, dissonance, roundness, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
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IntroductionMusical roundness perception relies on consonance/dissonance within a rule-based harmonic context, but also on individual characteristics of the listener. The present work tackles these aspects in a combined psychoacoustic and neurophysiological study, taking into account participant’s musical aptitude.MethodsOur paradigm employed cadence-like four-chord progressions, based on Western music theory. Chord progressions comprised naturalistic and artificial sounds; moreover, their single chords varied regarding consonance/dissonance and harmonic function. Thirty participants listened to the chord progressions while their cortical activity was measured with magnetoencephalography; afterwards, they rated the individual chord progressions with respect to their perceived roundness.ResultsRoundness ratings differed according to the degree of dissonance in the dominant chord at the progression’s third position; this effect was pronounced in listeners with high musical aptitude. Interestingly, a corresponding pattern occurred in the neuromagnetic N1m response to the fourth chord (i.e., at the progression’s resolution), again with somewhat stronger differentiation among musical listeners. The N1m magnitude seemed to increase during chord progressions that were considered particularly round, with the maximum difference after the final chord; here, however, the musical aptitude effect just missed significance.DiscussionThe roundness of chord progressions is reflected in participant’s psychoacoustic ratings and in their transient cortical activity, with stronger differentiation among listeners with high musical aptitude. The concept of roundness might help to reframe consonance/dissonance to a more holistic, gestalt-like understanding that covers chord relations in Western music.

Published
2024
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3. Neuromagnetic representation of melodic contour processing in human auditory cortex

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Sabrina Taddeo, Martin Schulz, Martin Andermann, and André Rupp

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pitch, auditory cortex, source analysis, MEG (magnetoencephalography), melodic contours, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
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The pattern of ups and downs in a sequence with varying pitch can be heard as a melodic contour. Contrary to single pitch, the neural representation of melodic contour information in the auditory cortex is rarely investigated, and it is not clear whether the processing entails a hemispheric asymmetry. The present magnetoencephalography study assessed the neuromagnetic responses of N = 18 normal-hearing adults to four-note sequences with fixed vs. varying pitch that were presented either monaurally or diotically; data were analyzed using minimum-norm reconstructions. The first note of the sequences elicited prominent transient activity in posterior auditory regions (Planum temporale), especially contralateral to the ear of entry. In contrast, the response to the subsequent notes originated from more anterior areas (Planum polare) and was larger for melodic contours than for fixed pitch sequences, independent from the ear of entry and without hemispheric asymmetry. Together, the results point to a gradient in the early cortical processing of melodic contours, both in spatial and functional terms, where posterior auditory activity reflects the onset of a pitch sequence and anterior activity reflects its subsequent notes, including the difference between sequences with fixed pitch and melodic contours.

Published
2022
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4. A direct comparison of voice pitch processing in acoustic and electric hearing

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Kurt Steinmetzger, Bastian Meinhardt, Mark Praetorius, Martin Andermann, and André Rupp

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Cochlear implants, EEG source reconstructions, fNIRS, Prosody, Single-sided deafness, Speech, Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics, R858-859.7, Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, RC346-429
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In single-sided deafness patients fitted with a cochlear implant (CI) in the affected ear and preserved normal hearing in the other ear, acoustic and electric hearing can be directly compared without the need for an external control group. Although poor pitch perception is a crucial limitation when listening through CIs, it remains unclear how exactly the cortical processing of pitch information differs between acoustic and electric hearing. Hence, we separately presented both ears of 20 of these patients with vowel sequences in which the pitch contours were either repetitive or variable, while simultaneously recording functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and EEG data. Overall, the results showed smaller and delayed auditory cortex activity in electric hearing, particularly for the P2 event-related potential component, which appears to reflect the processing of voice pitch information. Both the fNIRS data and EEG source reconstructions furthermore showed that vowel sequences with variable pitch contours evoked additional activity in posterior right auditory cortex in electric but not acoustic hearing. This surprising discrepancy demonstrates, firstly, that the acoustic detail transmitted by CIs is sufficient to distinguish between speech sounds that only vary regarding their pitch information. Secondly, the absence of a condition difference when stimulating the normal-hearing ears suggests a saturation of cortical activity levels following unilateral deafness. Taken together, these results provide strong evidence in favour of using CIs in this patient group.

Published
2022
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5. Early cortical processing of pitch height and the role of adaptation and musicality

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Martin Andermann, Melanie Günther, Roy D. Patterson, and André Rupp

Subjects
MEG, Auditory, Pitch, Music, Adaptation, Offset response, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
Abstract

Pitch is an important perceptual feature; however, it is poorly understood how its cortical correlates are shaped by absolute vs relative fundamental frequency (f0), and by neural adaptation. In this study, we assessed transient and sustained auditory evoked fields (AEFs) at the onset, progression, and offset of short pitch height sequences, taking into account the listener's musicality. We show that neuromagnetic activity reflects absolute f0 at pitch onset and offset, and relative f0 at transitions within pitch sequences; further, sequences with fixed f0 lead to larger response suppression than sequences with variable f0 contour, and to enhanced offset activity. Musical listeners exhibit stronger f0-related AEFs and larger differences between their responses to fixed vs variable sequences, both within sequences and at pitch offset. The results resemble prominent psychoacoustic phenomena in the perception of pitch contours; moreover, they suggest a strong influence of adaptive mechanisms on cortical pitch processing which, in turn, might be modulated by a listener's musical expertise.

Published
2021
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6. 26th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2017): Part 2

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Leonid L. Rubchinsky, Sungwoo Ahn, Wouter Klijn, Ben Cumming, Stuart Yates, Vasileios Karakasis, Alexander Peyser, Marmaduke Woodman, Sandra Diaz-Pier, James Deraeve, Eliana Vassena, William Alexander, David Beeman, Pawel Kudela, Dana Boatman-Reich, William S. Anderson, Niceto R. Luque, Francisco Naveros, Richard R. Carrillo, Eduardo Ros, Angelo Arleo, Jacob Huth, Koki Ichinose, Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai, Junichi Suzuki, Hiroki Mori, Minoru Asada, Sorinel A. Oprisan, Austin I. Dave, Tahereh Babaie, Peter Robinson, Alejandro Tabas, Martin Andermann, André Rupp, Emili Balaguer-Ballester, Henrik Lindén, Rasmus K. Christensen, Mari Nakamura, Tania R. Barkat, Zach Tosi, John Beggs, Davide Lonardoni, Fabio Boi, Stefano Di Marco, Alessandro Maccione, Luca Berdondini, Joanna Jędrzejewska-Szmek, Daniel B. Dorman, Kim T. Blackwell, Christoph Bauermeister, Hanna Keren, Jochen Braun, João V. Dornas, Eirini Mavritsaki, Silvio Aldrovandi, Emma Bridger, Sukbin Lim, Nicolas Brunel, Anatoly Buchin, Clifford Charles Kerr, Anton Chizhov, Gilles Huberfeld, Richard Miles, Boris Gutkin, Martin J. Spencer, Hamish Meffin, David B. Grayden, Anthony N. Burkitt, Catherine E. Davey, Liangyu Tao, Vineet Tiruvadi, Rehman Ali, Helen Mayberg, Robert Butera, Cengiz Gunay, Damon Lamb, Ronald L. Calabrese, Anca Doloc-Mihu, Víctor J. López-Madrona, Fernanda S. Matias, Ernesto Pereda, Claudio R. Mirasso, Santiago Canals, Alice Geminiani, Alessandra Pedrocchi, Egidio D’Angelo, Claudia Casellato, Ankur Chauhan, Karthik Soman, V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy, Vignayanandam R. Muddapu, Chao-Chun Chuang, Nan-yow Chen, Mehdi Bayati, Jan Melchior, Laurenz Wiskott, Amir Hossein Azizi, Kamran Diba, Sen Cheng, Elena Y. Smirnova, Elena G. Yakimova, Anton V. Chizhov, Nan-Yow Chen, Chi-Tin Shih, Dorian Florescu, Daniel Coca, Julie Courtiol, Viktor K. Jirsa, Roberto J. M. Covolan, Bartosz Teleńczuk, Richard Kempter, Gabriel Curio, Alain Destexhe, Jessica Parker, Alexander N. Klishko, Boris I. Prilutsky, Gennady Cymbalyuk, Felix Franke, Andreas Hierlemann, Rava Azeredo da Silveira, Stefano Casali, Stefano Masoli, Martina Rizza, Martina Francesca Rizza, Yinming Sun, Willy Wong, Faranak Farzan, Daniel M. Blumberger, Zafiris J. Daskalakis, Svitlana Popovych, Shivakumar Viswanathan, Nils Rosjat, Christian Grefkes, Silvia Daun, Damiano Gentiletti, Piotr Suffczynski, Vadym Gnatkovski, Marco De Curtis, Hyeonsu Lee, Se-Bum Paik, Woochul Choi, Jaeson Jang, Youngjin Park, Jun Ho Song, Min Song, Vicente Pallarés, Matthieu Gilson, Simone Kühn, Andrea Insabato, Gustavo Deco, Katharina Glomb, Adrián Ponce-Alvarez, Petra Ritter, Adria Tauste Campo, Alexander Thiele, Farah Deeba, P. A. Robinson, Sacha J. van Albada, Andrew Rowley, Michael Hopkins, Maximilian Schmidt, Alan B. Stokes, David R. Lester, Steve Furber, Markus Diesmann, Alessandro Barri, Martin T. Wiechert, David A. DiGregorio, Alexander G. Dimitrov, Catalina Vich, Rune W. Berg, Antoni Guillamon, Susanne Ditlevsen, Romain D. Cazé, Benoît Girard, Stéphane Doncieux, Nicolas Doyon, Frank Boahen, Patrick Desrosiers, Edward Laurence, Louis J. Dubé, Russo Eleonora, Daniel Durstewitz, Dominik Schmidt, Tuomo Mäki-Marttunen, Florian Krull, Francesco Bettella, Christoph Metzner, Anna Devor, Srdjan Djurovic, Anders M. Dale, Ole A. Andreassen, Gaute T. Einevoll, Solveig Næss, Torbjørn V. Ness, Geir Halnes, Eric Halgren, Klas H. Pettersen, Marte J. Sætra, Espen Hagen, Alina Schiffer, Axel Grzymisch, Malte Persike, Udo Ernst, Daniel Harnack, Udo A. Ernst, Nergis Tomen, Stefano Zucca, Valentina Pasquale, Giuseppe Pica, Manuel Molano-Mazón, Michela Chiappalone, Stefano Panzeri, Tommaso Fellin, Kelvin S. Oie, David L. Boothe, Joshua C. Crone, Alfred B. Yu, Melvin A. Felton, Isma Zulfiqar, Michelle Moerel, Peter De Weerd, Elia Formisano, Kelvin Oie, Piotr Franaszczuk, Roland Diggelmann, Michele Fiscella, Domenico Guarino, Jan Antolík, Andrew P. Davison, Yves Frègnac, Benjamin Xavier Etienne, Flavio Frohlich, Jérémie Lefebvre, Encarni Marcos, Maurizio Mattia, Aldo Genovesio, Leonid A. Fedorov, Tjeerd M.H. Dijkstra, Louisa Sting, Howard Hock, Martin A. Giese, Laure Buhry, Clément Langlet, Francesco Giovannini, Christophe Verbist, Stefano Salvadé, Michele Giugliano, James A. Henderson, Hendrik Wernecke, Bulcsú Sándor, Claudius Gros, Nicole Voges, Paulina Dabrovska, Alexa Riehle, Thomas Brochier, Sonja Grün, Yifan Gu, Pulin Gong, Grégory Dumont, Nikita A. Novikov, Boris S. Gutkin, Parul Tewatia, Olivia Eriksson, Andrei Kramer, Joao Santos, Alexandra Jauhiainen, Jeanette H. Kotaleski, Jovana J. Belić, Arvind Kumar, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, Masanori Shimono, Naomichi Hatano, Subutai Ahmad, Yuwei Cui, Jeff Hawkins, Johanna Senk, Karolína Korvasová, Tom Tetzlaff, Moritz Helias, Tobias Kühn, Michael Denker, PierGianLuca Mana, David Dahmen, Jannis Schuecker, Sven Goedeke, Christian Keup, Katja Heuer, Rembrandt Bakker, Paul Tiesinga, Roberto Toro, Wei Qin, Alex Hadjinicolaou, Michael R. Ibbotson, Tatiana Kameneva, William W. Lytton, Lealem Mulugeta, Andrew Drach, Jerry G. Myers, Marc Horner, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, Tina Morrison, Marlei Walton, Martin Steele, C. Anthony Hunt, Nicoladie Tam, Rodrigo Amaducci, Carlos Muñiz, Manuel Reyes-Sánchez, Francisco B. Rodríguez, Pablo Varona, Joseph T. Cronin, Matthias H. Hennig, Elisabetta Iavarone, Jane Yi, Ying Shi, Bas-Jan Zandt, Werner Van Geit, Christian Rössert, Henry Markram, Sean Hill, Christian O’Reilly, Rodrigo Perin, Huanxiang Lu, Alexander Bryson, Michal Hadrava, Jaroslav Hlinka, Ryosuke Hosaka, Mark Olenik, Conor Houghton, Nicolangelo Iannella, Thomas Launey, Rebecca Kotsakidis, Jaymar Soriano, Takatomi Kubo, Takao Inoue, Hiroyuki Kida, Toshitaka Yamakawa, Michiyasu Suzuki, Kazushi Ikeda, Samira Abbasi, Amber E. Hudson, Detlef H. Heck, Dieter Jaeger, Joel Lee, Skirmantas Janušonis, Maria Luisa Saggio, Andreas Spiegler, William C. Stacey, Christophe Bernard, Davide Lillo, Spase Petkoski, Mark Drakesmith, Derek K. Jones, Ali Sadegh Zadeh, Chandra Kambhampati, Jan Karbowski, Zeynep Gokcen Kaya, Yair Lakretz, Alessandro Treves, Lily W. Li, Joseph Lizier, Cliff C. Kerr, Timothée Masquelier, Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh, Hojeong Kim, Chang Sub Kim, Julia A. Marakshina, Alexander V. Vartanov, Anastasia A. Neklyudova, Stanislav A. Kozlovskiy, Andrey A. Kiselnikov, Kanako Taniguchi, Katsunori Kitano, Oliver Schmitt, Felix Lessmann, Sebastian Schwanke, Peter Eipert, Jennifer Meinhardt, Julia Beier, Kanar Kadir, Adrian Karnitzki, Linda Sellner, Ann-Christin Klünker, Lena Kuch, Frauke Ruß, Jörg Jenssen, Andreas Wree, Paula Sanz-Leon, Stuart A. Knock, Shih-Cheng Chien, Burkhard Maess, Thomas R. Knösche, Charles C. Cohen, Marko A. Popovic, Jan Klooster, Maarten H.P. Kole, Erik A. Roberts, Nancy J. Kopell, Daniel Kepple, Hamza Giaffar, Dima Rinberg, Alex Koulakov, Caroline Garcia Forlim, Leonie Klock, Johanna Bächle, Laura Stoll, Patrick Giemsa, Marie Fuchs, Nikola Schoofs, Christiane Montag, Jürgen Gallinat, Ray X. Lee, Greg J. Stephens, Bernd Kuhn, Luiz Tauffer, Philippe Isope, Katsuma Inoue, Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Shogo Yonekura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Hyun Jae Jang, Jeehyun Kwag, Marc de Kamps, Yi Ming Lai, Filipa dos Santos, K. P. Lam, Peter Andras, Julia Imperatore, Jessica Helms, Tamas Tompa, Antonieta Lavin, Felicity H. Inkpen, Michael C. Ashby, Nathan F. Lepora, Aaron R. Shifman, John E. Lewis, Zhong Zhang, Yeqian Feng, Christian Tetzlaff, Tomas Kulvicius, Yinyun Li, Rodrigo F. O. Pena, Davide Bernardi, Antonio C. Roque, Benjamin Lindner, Sebastian Vellmer, Ausra Saudargiene, Tiina Maninen, Riikka Havela, Marja-Leena Linne, Arthur Powanwe, Andre Longtin, Jesús A. Garrido, Joe W. Graham, Salvador Dura-Bernal, Sergio L. Angulo, Samuel A. Neymotin, and Srdjan D. Antic

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Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571, Neurophysiology and neuropsychology, QP351-495
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2017
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7. Modeling and MEG evidence of early consonance processing in auditory cortex.

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Alejandro Tabas, Martin Andermann, Valeria Schuberth, Helmut Riedel, Emili Balaguer-Ballester, and André Rupp

Subjects
Biology (General), QH301-705.5
Abstract

Pitch is a fundamental attribute of auditory perception. The interaction of concurrent pitches gives rise to a sensation that can be characterized by its degree of consonance or dissonance. In this work, we propose that human auditory cortex (AC) processes pitch and consonance through a common neural network mechanism operating at early cortical levels. First, we developed a new model of neural ensembles incorporating realistic neuronal and synaptic parameters to assess pitch processing mechanisms at early stages of AC. Next, we designed a magnetoencephalography (MEG) experiment to measure the neuromagnetic activity evoked by dyads with varying degrees of consonance or dissonance. MEG results show that dissonant dyads evoke a pitch onset response (POR) with a latency up to 36 ms longer than consonant dyads. Additionally, we used the model to predict the processing time of concurrent pitches; here, consonant pitch combinations were decoded faster than dissonant combinations, in line with the experimental observations. Specifically, we found a striking match between the predicted and the observed latency of the POR as elicited by the dyads. These novel results suggest that consonance processing starts early in human auditory cortex and may share the network mechanisms that are responsible for (single) pitch processing.

Published
2019
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