Article,
Relative influence of musical and linguistic experience on early cortical processing of pitch contours
Brain and Language, 108 (1): 1--9 (2009)
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.02.001
Abstract
To assess domain specificity of experience-dependent pitch representation
we evaluated the mismatch negativity (MMN) and discrimination judgments
of English musicians, English nonmusicians, and native Chinese for
pitch contours presented in a nonspeech context using a passive oddball
paradigm. Stimuli consisted of homologues of Mandarin high rising
(T2) and high level (T1) tones, and a linear rising ramp (T2L). One
condition involved a between-category contrast (T1/T2), the other,
a within-category contrast (T2L/T2). Irrespective of condition, musicians
and Chinese showed larger MMN responses than nonmusicians; Chinese
larger than musicians. Chinese, however, were less accurate than
nonnatives in overt discrimination of T2L and T2. Taken together,
these findings suggest that experience-dependent effects to pitch
contours are domain-general and not driven by linguistic categories.
Yet specific differences in long-term experience in pitch processing
between domains (music vs. language) may lead to gradations in cortical
plasticity to pitch contours.
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