Article,
The music of speech: music training facilitates pitch processing in both music and language
Psychophysiology, 41 (3): 341--9 (May 2004)
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8986.00172.x
Abstract
The main aim of the present experiment was to determine whether extensive
musical training facilitates pitch contour processing not only in
music but also in language. We used a parametric manipulation of
final notes' or words' fundamental frequency (F0), and we recorded
behavioral and electrophysiological data to examine the precise time
course of pitch processing. We compared professional musicians and
nonmusicians. Results revealed that within both domains, musicians
detected weak F0 manipulations better than nonmusicians. Moreover,
F0 manipulations within both music and language elicited similar
variations in brain electrical potentials, with overall shorter onset
latency for musicians than for nonmusicians. Finally, the scalp distribution
of an early negativity in the linguistic task varied with musical
expertise, being largest over temporal sites bilaterally for musicians
and largest centrally and over left temporal sites for nonmusicians.
These results are taken as evidence that extensive musical training
influences the perception of pitch contour in spoken language.
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