Abstract
Speech and music are highly complex signals that have many shared
acoustic features. Pitch, Timbre, and Timing can be used as overarching
perceptual categories for describing these shared properties. The
acoustic cues contributing to these percepts also have distinct subcortical
representations which can be selectively enhanced or degraded in
different populations. Musically trained subjects are found to have
enhanced subcortical representations of pitch, timbre, and timing.
The effects of musical experience on subcortical auditory processing
are pervasive and extend beyond music to the domains of language
and emotion. The sensory malleability of the neural encoding of pitch,
timbre, and timing can be affected by lifelong experience and short-term
training. This conceptual framework and supporting data can be applied
to consider sensory learning of speech and music through a hearing
aid or cochlear implant.
- auditory
- cortex,auditory
- cortex:
- implants,humans,learning,music,pitch
- perception,pitch
- perception,time
- perception:
- physiology,brain
- physiology,cochlear
- physiology,music,musicality,perception,pitch,rhythm,timbre
- physiology,time
- stem,brain
- stem:
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