%0 Journal Article %1 Chandrasekaran2007b %A Chandrasekaran, Bharath %A Krishnan, Ananthanarayan %A Gandour, Jackson T. %D 2007 %J Neuroreport %K (Psychology),Recognition (Psychology): Acoustic Behavior,Verbal Behavior: Cortex,Cerebral Cortex: Perception,Pitch Perception,Speech Perception: Plasticity,Neuronal Plasticity: Potentials,Evoked Potentials: Processing,Speech Stimulation,Adult,Cerebral Tests,Learning,Learning: \& anatomy histology,Cerebral physiology,Computer-Assisted,Electroencephalography,English,Evoked physiology,Female,Humans,L1,L2,Language,Language physiology,Male,Mandarin,Memory,Memory: physiology,Neuronal physiology,Pitch physiology,Recognition physiology,Signal physiology,Verbal physiology,language,neuro,perception,tone %N 18 %P 1963--7 %R 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f213c5 %T Experience-dependent neural plasticity is sensitive to shape of pitch contours %U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18007195 %V 18 %X Language experience is known to modulate the preattentive processing of linguistically relevant pitch contours when presented in the speech domain. To assess if experience-dependent effects are specific to speech, we evaluated the mismatch negativity response to nonspeech homologs (iterated rippled noise) of such curvilinear pitch contours (Mandarin: Tone 1, 'high level'; Tone 2, 'high rising') by Chinese and English listeners as well as to a pitch contour that was a linear approximation of Tone 2 ('linear ascending ramp'). Mandarin speakers showed larger mismatch negativity responses than English to the curvilinear pitch contours only. These results suggest that experience-dependent neural plasticity in early cortical processing of linguistically relevant pitch contours is sensitive to naturally occurring pitch dimensions but not specific to speech per se.

@article{Chandrasekaran2007b, abstract = {Language experience is known to modulate the preattentive processing of linguistically relevant pitch contours when presented in the speech domain. To assess if experience-dependent effects are specific to speech, we evaluated the mismatch negativity response to nonspeech homologs (iterated rippled noise) of such curvilinear pitch contours (Mandarin: Tone 1, 'high level'; Tone 2, 'high rising') by Chinese and English listeners as well as to a pitch contour that was a linear approximation of Tone 2 ('linear ascending ramp'). Mandarin speakers showed larger mismatch negativity responses than English to the curvilinear pitch contours only. These results suggest that experience-dependent neural plasticity in early cortical processing of linguistically relevant pitch contours is sensitive to naturally occurring pitch dimensions but not specific to speech per se.}, added-at = {2011-03-27T17:20:41.000+0200}, author = {Chandrasekaran, Bharath and Krishnan, Ananthanarayan and Gandour, Jackson T.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/206c44f966fcb4d960479aac6487a1fc9/yevb0}, doi = {10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f213c5}, file = {Chandrasekaran, Krishnan, Gandour_2007_Experience-dependent neural plasticity is sensitive to shape of pitch contours.pdf:Chandrasekaran, Krishnan, Gandour_2007_Experience-dependent neural plasticity is sensitive to shape of pitch contours.pdf:PDF}, interhash = {9bde57b4e855c7200f524342a70651d1}, intrahash = {06c44f966fcb4d960479aac6487a1fc9}, issn = {0959-4965}, journal = {Neuroreport}, keywords = {(Psychology),Recognition (Psychology): Acoustic Behavior,Verbal Behavior: Cortex,Cerebral Cortex: Perception,Pitch Perception,Speech Perception: Plasticity,Neuronal Plasticity: Potentials,Evoked Potentials: Processing,Speech Stimulation,Adult,Cerebral Tests,Learning,Learning: \& anatomy histology,Cerebral physiology,Computer-Assisted,Electroencephalography,English,Evoked physiology,Female,Humans,L1,L2,Language,Language physiology,Male,Mandarin,Memory,Memory: physiology,Neuronal physiology,Pitch physiology,Recognition physiology,Signal physiology,Verbal physiology,language,neuro,perception,tone}, mendeley-tags = {English,L1,L2,Mandarin,language,neuro,perception,tone}, month = dec, number = 18, pages = {1963--7}, pmid = {18007195}, timestamp = {2011-03-27T17:20:47.000+0200}, title = {Experience-dependent neural plasticity is sensitive to shape of pitch contours}, url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18007195}, volume = 18, year = 2007 }