ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2015
The steady-state response of the cerebral cortex to the beat of music reflects both the comprehension of music and attention.
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- Alpha band modulation caused by selective attention to music enables EEG classification.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2024Article
- Auditory steady state responses elicited by silent gaps embedded within a broadband noise.BMC neuroscience · 2022Article
- Modifications in the Topological Structure of EEG Functional Connectivity Networks during Listening Tonal and Atonal Concert Music in Musicians and Non-Musicians.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Absence of Rhythm Benefit on Speech in Noise Recognition in Children Diagnosed With Auditory Processing Disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Neural Speech Tracking in the Theta and in the Delta Frequency Band Differentially Encode Clarity and Comprehension of Speech in Noise.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Increased Functional Connectivity of the Angular Gyrus During Imagined Music Performance.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Deficits in Auditory Rhythm Perception in Children With Auditory Processing Disorder Are Unrelated to Attention.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- The frequency architecture of brain and brain body oscillations: an analysis.The European journal of neuroscience · 2018Review
- High-density EEG characterization of brain responses to auditory rhythmic stimuli during wakefulness and NREM sleep.NeuroImage · 2018Article
- Music Familiarity Affects EEG Entrainment When Little Attention Is Paid.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- What can we learn about beat perception by comparing brain signals and stimulus envelopes?PloS one · 2017Article
- Spoken Word Recognition Enhancement Due to Preceding Synchronized Beats Compared to Unsynchronized or Unrhythmic Beats.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Article
- Cortical Sensitivity to Guitar Note Patterns: EEG Entrainment to Repetition and Key.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- Familiarity Affects Entrainment of EEG in Music Listening.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
The brain's analyses of speech and music share a range of neural resources and mechanisms. Music displays a temporal structure of complexity similar to that of speech, unfolds over comparable timescales, and elicits cognitive demands in tasks involving comprehension and attention. During speech processing, synchronized neural activity of the cerebral cortex in the delta and theta frequency bands tracks the envelope of a speech signal, and this neural activity is modulated by high-level cortical functions such as speech comprehension and attention. It remains unclear, however, whether the cortex also responds to the natural rhythmic structure of music and how the response, if present, is influenced by higher cognitive processes. Here we employ electroencephalography to show that the cortex responds to the beat of music and that this steady-state response reflects musical comprehension and attention. We show that the cortical response to the beat is weaker when subjects listen to a familiar tune than when they listen to an unfamiliar, non-sensical musical piece. Furthermore, we show that in a task of intermodal attention there is a larger neural response at the beat frequency when subjects attend to a musical stimulus than when they ignore the auditory signal and instead focus on a visual one. Our findings may be applied in clinical assessments of auditory processing and music cognition as well as in the construction of auditory brain-machine interfaces.
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