Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

Appendix 3.03 Survey of The Neurosciences

and Music III Conference 2008

Disorders and Plasticity

Title, Category

Aim

Mus. Material, Cultural Ref.

Technology & Procedure

Main focus of interest

Conclusion

72S

. Sammler et al.
(494

-498)

Musical and linguistic syntax processing Cat. 2: Harmony Cat. 6: Language

73S

. Sevdalis & Keller
(499

-502)

Self

-recognition in action

perception

Cat. 16: Audiovisual

74S

. Sonnadara et al.
(503

-507)

Spatial properties of perceived pitch

Cat. 1: PItch Cat. 13: Localization

75S

. Trehub et al.

(508

-511)

Detecting cross

-modal cues

to identity

Cat. 16: Audiovisual

To investigate the co

• 
  

localization of muscal and linguistic syntax processing in the human

brain

To investigate self

-recognition

in point

-light displays

depicting actions performed in synchrony with music

To investigate the influence of pitch on reaching movements

To test infants 6

-8 months of

age on their ability to link dynamic

cross

-modal cues to

the identity of unfamiliar speakers and singers

German language: 132 correct, 132 incorrect, 66 filler sentences. Music: 144 regular, 144 irregular 6

-chord

sequences

(SNI)

CR: Western Recorded music:

3 Musical excerpts from drum and

bass, folk and jazz

CR: Western popular 1)

Two monaural pure tones,

500 and 1000 Hz presented via one loudspeaker.

2)

Same

tones presented via 4 lou

d-

speakers hung in the vertical or the horizontal plane 3) N

ine

diotic pure tones 250

-1250

Hz

presented

over headphones

CR: Neutral Audio-

recording of a mother

singing a song to her infant, followed by silent videos of

a)

the previously he

ard singer

b)

another person, singing

infant

-directed versions of

another song. Similar recordings of infant

• 
  

directed s

peech.

CR: Western

Intracranial ERP: 9 patients undergoing invasive EEG monitoring during evaluation for epilepsy. Attention was not focused on syntactic violations

14 adults with reflective markers attached to the head and the main joints were recorded executing dancing, walking, and clapping in synchrony with music

10-

14 kinesiology students.

1) Res

pond as quicky as

possible to a tone by button press.

2) Move a pointer to

indicate perceived location of a tone.

3) as 2, with nine

different diotic tone

s

48 infants heard a 30 sec sample of infant

-directed

speech (test 1) and infant

• 
  

directed song (test 2) from one woman, after which they were tested with two silent videos, including one from the previously heard speaker

Localization of neural gene

• 
  

rators of the early potentials elicited by syntac

tic errors in

music and language. Generators identified by

Brain Surface Current Density

(BSCD) mapping

Subsequently, participants were required to watch point

• 
  

light displays, with or without music, of themselves or another participant. Task: Identify ”self” or ”other”

1) Reaction time for high and low tones 2 and 3 ) Error in endpoint placement

Cumulative looking time provided an index of infants’ interest in the person depicted in each video

Data c

onfirm a co-

localization

of the early detection of musical and linguistic syntacic errors within the bilateral superior temporal gyrus

Recognition accuracy was better than chance for all actions. It was best for the relatively complex dance actions. The

presence of

music did not affect accuracy Data suggest a relationship between perceived pitch and perceived location of tones, with higher tones being placed either higher or further to the right, and lower tones placed lower or to the left

Infants lo

oked significantly

longer at the video of the person heard previously, which indica

tes that they can

match auditory and visual cues to the identity of unfamilar persons