A5002832972- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Music Therapy and Health
- Music and Audio Processing
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
- Music Technology and Sound Studies
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Language Development and Disorders
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Noise Effects and Management
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
Université de Montréal
2015-2024
International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research
2014-2024
The University of Melbourne
2022
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
2021
Centre for Research on Brain Language and Music
2014-2020
McGill University
2009-2020
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2020
Cégep Marie-Victorin
2018
Douglas Mental Health University Institute
2014
Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal
2000-2012
We know from animal studies that a stimulating and enriched environment can enhance recovery after stroke, but little is known about the effects of an sound on neural damage in humans. In humans, music listening activates wide-spread bilateral network brain regions related to attention, semantic processing, memory, motor functions, emotional processing. Music exposure also enhances cognitive functioning healthy subjects various clinical patient groups. The potential role neurological...
Abstract The current study aims at characterizing the mechanisms that allow humans to entrain mind and body incoming rhythmic sensory inputs in real time. We addressed this unresolved issue by examining relationship between covert neural processes overt behavior context of musical rhythm. measured temporal prediction abilities, sensorimotor synchronization accuracy entrainment auditory rhythms as captured using an EEG frequency-tagging approach. Importantly, movement with a beat could be...
Feeling the beat and meter is fundamental to experience of music. However, how these periodicities are represented in brain remains largely unknown. Here, we test whether this function emerges from entrainment neurons resonating meter. We recorded electroencephalogram while participants listened a musical imagined binary or ternary on (i.e., march waltz). found that elicits sustained periodic EEG response tuned frequency. Most importantly, imagery an additional frequency corresponding metric...
The condition of congenital amusia, commonly known as tone‐deafness, has been described for more than a century, but received little empirical attention. In the present study, research effort made to document in detail behavioural manifestations amusia. A group 11 adults, fitting stringent criteria musical disabilities, were examined series tests originally designed assess presence and specificity disorders brain‐damaged patients. results show that amusia is related severe deficiencies...
Abstract Past research has shown a superiority of participants with high-functioning autism over comparison groups in memorizing picture-pitch associations and detecting pitch changes melodies. A subset individuals autism, known as “musical savants,” is also to possess absolute pitch. This might be due an abnormally high sensitivity fine-grained differences sounds. To test this hypothesis, psychoacoustic tasks were devised so use signal detection methodology. Participants all musically...
Melody processing in unilaterally brain-damaged patients was investigated by manipulating the availability of contour and metre for discrimination melodies varying, respectively, on pitch dimension temporal dimension. On dimension, right patients, contrast to left braindamaged normal controls, were found be little affected as a cue. However, both groups impaired tasks requiring consideration interval structure. These findings are consistent with hierarchical contribution cerebral...
Three experiments were conducted in order to validate 56 musical excerpts that conveyed four intended emotions (happiness, sadness, threat and peacefulness). In Experiment 1, the clips rated terms of how clearly emotion was portrayed, for valence arousal. 2, a gating paradigm used evaluate course recognition. 3, dissimilarity judgement task multidimensional scaling analysis probe emotional content with no labels. The results showed are easily recognised discriminated on basis arousal...
Fundamental to the experience of music, beat and meter perception refers periodicities while listening music occurring within frequency range musical tempo. Here, we explored spontaneous building hypothesized emerge from selective entrainment neuronal populations at frequencies. The electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded human participants listened rhythms consisting short sounds alternating with silences induce a meter. We found that rhythmic stimuli elicited multiple steady state-evoked...
Congenital amusia (or tone deafness) is a lifelong disorder characterized by impairments in the perception and production of music. A previous voxel-based morphometry (VBM) study revealed that amusic individuals had reduced white matter right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) relative to musically intact controls (Hyde et al., 2006). However, this VBM also associated increases gray same IFG region amusics. The objective present was better understand morphological brain anomaly way cortical...
Musicality can be defined as a natural, spontaneously developing trait based on and constrained by biology cognition. Music, contrast, social cultural construct that very musicality. One critical challenge is to delineate the constituent elements of What biological cognitive mechanisms are essential for perceiving, appreciating making music? Progress in understanding evolution music cognition depends upon adequate characterization musicality extent which they present non-human species. We...
It is estimated that about 4% of the general population may have amusia (or tone deafness). Congenital a lifelong disability for processing music despite normal intellectual, memory, and language skills. Here we present evidence disorder stems from deficit in fine-grained pitch perception. Amusic control adults were presented with monotonic isochronous sequences five tones (i.e., constant intertone interval). They required to detect when fourth was displaced or time. All amusic participants...
We present two patients with bilateral lesions of the superior temporal cortex who manifested a number functional dissociations in auditory domain. The perception speech and environmental sounds were preserved; yet, tunes, prosody voice was impaired. As processing melodic but not rhythmic variations musical sequences selectively disturbed, deficit cannot be attributed to general impairment memory or sequential processing. These findings suggest that melody is mediated by general-purpose...
A bstract : The goal of the present study was to determine whether relaxing music (as compared silence) might facilitate recovery from a psychologically stressful task. To this aim, changes in salivary cortisol levels were regularly monitored 24 students before and after Trier Social Stress Test. data show that presence music, level ceased increase stressor, whereas silence it continued for 30 minutes.