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ArticleScientific reports2020

Auditory local-global temporal processing: evidence for perceptual reorganization with musical expertise.

Patrick Susini, Sarah Jibodh Jiaouan, Elena Brunet, Olivier Houix, Emmanuel Ponsot

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Patrick SusiniSTMS Ircam-CNRS-SU, 1 Place Igor Stravinsky, 75004, Paris, France. patrick.susini@ircam.fr.
Sarah Jibodh JiaouanSTMS Ircam-CNRS-SU, 1 Place Igor Stravinsky, 75004, Paris, France.
Elena BrunetSTMS Ircam-CNRS-SU, 1 Place Igor Stravinsky, 75004, Paris, France.
Olivier HouixSTMS Ircam-CNRS-SU, 1 Place Igor Stravinsky, 75004, Paris, France.
Emmanuel PonsotLaboratoire des systèmes perceptifs, Département d'études cognitives, École normale supérieure, PSL University, CNRS, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005, Paris, France. ponsot.manu@gmail.com.
Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique · FRSciences et Technologies de la Musique et du SonLaboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs · FR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The way the visual system processes different scales of spatial information has been widely studied, highlighting the dominant role of global over local processing. Recent studies addressing how the auditory system deals with local-global temporal information suggest a comparable processing scheme, but little is known about how this organization is modulated by long-term musical training, in particular regarding musical sequences. Here, we investigate how non-musicians and expert musicians detect local and global pitch changes in short hierarchical tone sequences structured across temporally-segregated triplets made of musical intervals (local scale) forming a melodic contour (global scale) varying either in one direction (monotonic) or both (non-monotonic). Our data reveal a clearly distinct organization between both groups. Non-musicians show global advantage (enhanced performance to detect global over local modifications) and global-to-local interference effects (interference of global over local processing) only for monotonic sequences, while musicians exhibit the reversed pattern for non-monotonic sequences. These results suggest that the local-global processing scheme depends on the complexity of the melodic contour, and that long-term musical training induces a prominent perceptual reorganization that reshapes its initial global dominance to favour local information processing. This latter result supports the theory of "analytic" processing acquisition in musicians.

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Acoustic StimulationAdultAuditory PerceptionCognitionEvoked Potentials, AuditoryFemaleHumansMaleMusicPitch DiscriminationPitch PerceptionReaction TimeTime PerceptionYoung Adult

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PMCPMC7532159
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