The human central auditory system has a remarkable ability to establish
memory traces for invariant features in the acoustic environment
despite continual acoustic variations in the sounds heard. By recording
the memory-related mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the auditory
electric and magnetic brain responses as well as behavioral performance,
we investigated how subjects learn to discriminate changes in a melodic
pattern presented at several frequency levels. In addition, we explored
whether musical expertise facilitates this learning. Our data show
that especially musicians who perform music primarily without a score
learn easily to detect contour changes in a melodic pattern presented
at variable frequency levels. After learning, their auditory cortex
detects these changes even when their attention is directed away
from the sounds. The present results thus show that, after perceptual
learning during attentive listening has taken place, changes in a
highly complex auditory pattern can be detected automatically by
the human auditory cortex and, further, that this process is facilitated
by musical expertise.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Tervaniemi2001
%A Tervaniemi, Mari
%A Rytkönen, M
%A Schröger, Erich
%A Ilmoniemi, R J
%A Näätänen, Risto
%D 2001
%J Learning & Memory
%K Acoustic Cortex,Auditory Cortex: Imaging,Magnetoencephalography,Male,Memory,Memory: Potentials,Female,Humans,Magnetic Resonance Stimulation,Adolescent,Adult,Auditory,Auditory physiology,Auditory: physiology,Electroencephalography,Evoked physiology,Music,Music: psychology,melody,memory,music,musicality,neuro,perception
%N 5
%P 295--300
%R 10.1101/lm.39501
%T Superior formation of cortical memory traces for melodic patterns
in musicians
%U http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=311383&tool=pmcentrez&rendertype=abstract
%V 8
%X The human central auditory system has a remarkable ability to establish
memory traces for invariant features in the acoustic environment
despite continual acoustic variations in the sounds heard. By recording
the memory-related mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the auditory
electric and magnetic brain responses as well as behavioral performance,
we investigated how subjects learn to discriminate changes in a melodic
pattern presented at several frequency levels. In addition, we explored
whether musical expertise facilitates this learning. Our data show
that especially musicians who perform music primarily without a score
learn easily to detect contour changes in a melodic pattern presented
at variable frequency levels. After learning, their auditory cortex
detects these changes even when their attention is directed away
from the sounds. The present results thus show that, after perceptual
learning during attentive listening has taken place, changes in a
highly complex auditory pattern can be detected automatically by
the human auditory cortex and, further, that this process is facilitated
by musical expertise.
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memory traces for invariant features in the acoustic environment
despite continual acoustic variations in the sounds heard. By recording
the memory-related mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the auditory
electric and magnetic brain responses as well as behavioral performance,
we investigated how subjects learn to discriminate changes in a melodic
pattern presented at several frequency levels. In addition, we explored
whether musical expertise facilitates this learning. Our data show
that especially musicians who perform music primarily without a score
learn easily to detect contour changes in a melodic pattern presented
at variable frequency levels. After learning, their auditory cortex
detects these changes even when their attention is directed away
from the sounds. The present results thus show that, after perceptual
learning during attentive listening has taken place, changes in a
highly complex auditory pattern can be detected automatically by
the human auditory cortex and, further, that this process is facilitated
by musical expertise.},
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title = {Superior formation of cortical memory traces for melodic patterns
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