Processing Expectancy Violations during Music Performance and Perception: An ERP Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 2401-2413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clemens Maidhof ◽  
Niki Vavatzanidis ◽  
Wolfgang Prinz ◽  
Martina Rieger ◽  
Stefan Koelsch
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Feedback ◽  
Music Perception ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Expectancy Violations ◽  
Perception Condition ◽  
Action And Perception ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Task Irrelevant ◽  
Relevant Experiment

Musicians are highly trained motor experts with pronounced associations between musical actions and the corresponding auditory effects. However, the importance of auditory feedback for music performance is controversial, and it is unknown how feedback during music performance is processed. The present study investigated the neural mechanisms underlying the processing of auditory feedback manipulations in pianists. To disentangle effects of action-based and perception-based expectations, we compared feedback manipulations during performance to the mere perception of the same stimulus material. In two experiments, pianists performed bimanually sequences on a piano, while at random positions, the auditory feedback of single notes was manipulated, thereby creating a mismatch between an expected and actually perceived action effect (action condition). In addition, pianists listened to tone sequences containing the same manipulations (perception condition). The manipulations in the perception condition were either task-relevant (Experiment 1) or task-irrelevant (Experiment 2). In action and perception conditions, event-related potentials elicited by manipulated tones showed an early fronto-central negativity around 200 msec, presumably reflecting a feedback ERN/N200, followed by a positive deflection (P3a). The early negativity was more pronounced during the action compared to the perception condition. This shows that during performance, the intention to produce specific auditory effects leads to stronger expectancies than the expectancies built up during music perception.

scholarly journals ERP Evidence for a Sex-Specific Stroop Effect in Emotional Speech

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1135-1148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annett Schirmer ◽  
Sonja A. Kotz
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Processing ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Behavioral Effect ◽  
Emotional Prosody ◽  
Emotional Speech ◽  
Emotional Stimuli ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Task Irrelevant

The present study investigated the interaction of emotional prosody and word valence during emotional comprehension in men and women. In a prosody-word interference task, participants listened to positive, neutral, and negative words that were spoken with a happy, neutral, and angry prosody. Participants were asked to rate word valence while ignoring emotional prosody, or vice versa. Congruent stimuli were responded faster and more accurately as compared to incongruent emotional stimuli. This behavioral effect was more salient for the word valence task than for the prosodic task and was comparable between men and women. The event-related potentials (ERPs) revealed a smaller N400 amplitude for congruent as compared to emotionally incongruent stimuli. This ERP effect, however, was significant only for the word valence judgment and only for female listeners. The present data suggest that the word valence judgment was more difficult and more easily influenced by task-irrelevant emotional information than the prosodic task in both men and women. Furthermore, although emotional prosody and word valence may have a similar influence on an emotional judgment in both sexes, ERPs indicate sex differences in the underlying processing. Women, but not men, show an interaction between prosody and word valence during a semantic processing stage.

scholarly journals Auditory attention alterations in migraine: a behavioral and MEG/EEG study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémy Masson ◽  
Yohana Lévêque ◽  
Geneviève Demarquay ◽  
Hesham ElShafei ◽  
Lesly Fornoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Orienting Response ◽  
List Type ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Attention Task ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Attentional Processes ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
The Right ◽  
Task Irrelevant

AbstractObjectivesTo evaluate alterations of top-down and/or bottom-up attention in migraine and their cortical underpinnings.Methods19 migraineurs between attacks and 19 matched control participants performed a task evaluating jointly top-down and bottom-up attention, using visually-cued target sounds and unexpected task-irrelevant distracting sounds. Behavioral responses and MEG/EEG were recorded. Event-related potentials and fields (ERPs/ERFs) were processed and source reconstruction was applied to ERFs.ResultsAt the behavioral level, neither top-down nor bottom-up attentional processes appeared to be altered in migraine. However, migraineurs presented heightened evoked responses following distracting sounds (orienting component of the N1 and Re-Orienting Negativity, RON) and following target sounds (orienting component of the N1), concomitant to an increased recruitment of the right temporo-parietal junction. They also displayed an increased effect of the cue informational value on target processing resulting in the elicitation of a negative difference (Nd).ConclusionsMigraineurs appear to display increased bottom-up orienting response to all incoming sounds, and an enhanced recruitment of top-down attention.SignificanceThe interictal state in migraine is characterized by an exacerbation of the orienting response to attended and unattended sounds. These attentional alterations might participate to the peculiar vulnerability of the migraine brain to all incoming stimuli.HighlightsMigraineurs performed as well as healthy participants in an attention task.However, EEG markers of both bottom-up and top-down attention are increased.Migraine is also associated with a facilitated recruitment of the right temporo-parietal junction.

scholarly journals Grouping of Sequential Sounds—An Event-Related Potential Study Comparing Musicians and Nonmusicians

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Titia L. van Zuijen ◽  
Elyse Sussman ◽  
István Winkler ◽  
Risto Näätänen ◽  
Mari Tervaniemi
Keyword(s):  
Mismatch Negativity ◽  
Music Perception ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Good Continuation ◽  
Professional Musicians ◽  
Auditory Grouping ◽  
Grouping And Segmentation ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Auditory Processes

It is believed that auditory processes governing grouping and segmentation of sounds are automatic and represent universal aspects of music perception (e.g., they are independent of the listener's musical skill). The present study challenges this view by showing that musicians and nonmusicians differ in their ability to preattentively group consecutive sounds. We measured event-related potentials (ERPs) from professional musicians and nonmusicians who were presented with isochronous tone sequences that they ignored. Four consecutive tones in a sequence could be grouped according to either pitch similarity or good continuation of pitch. Occasionally, the tone-group length was violated by a deviant tone. The mismatch negativity (MMN) was elicited to the deviants in both subject groups when the sounds could be grouped based on pitch similarity. In contrast, MMN was only elicited in musicians when the sounds could be grouped according to good continuation of pitch. These results suggest that some forms of auditory grouping depend on musical skill and that not all aspects of auditory grouping are universal.

scholarly journals Age Effects on Distraction in a Visual Task Requiring Fast Reactions: An Event-Related Potential Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petia Kojouharova ◽  
Zsófia Anna Gaál ◽  
Boglárka Nagy ◽  
István Czigler
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Specific Effect ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Stimulus Range ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Fast Reactions ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Task Irrelevant

We investigated the effects of distractors in older and younger participants in choice and simple reaction time tasks with concurrent registration of event-related potentials. In the task the participants had to prevent a disk from falling into a bin after a color or luminosity change (target stimuli). Infrequently, task-irrelevant stimuli (schematic faces or threatening objects) were superimposed on the target stimuli (distractors), or the bin disappeared which required no response (Nogo trials). Reaction time was delayed to the distractors, but this effect was similar in the two age groups. As a robust age-related difference, in the older group a large anterior positivity and posterior negativity emerged to the distractors within the 100–200 ms post-stimulus range, and these components were larger for schematic faces than for threatening objects. sLORETA localized the age-specific effect to the ventral stream of the visual system and to anterior structures considered as parts of the executive system. The Nogo stimuli elicited a late positivity (Nogo P3) with longer latency in the older group. We interpreted the age-related differences as decreased but compensated resistance to task-irrelevant change of the target stimuli.

P3 Event-Related Potentials and Performance of Young and Old Subjects for Music Perception Tasks

1994 ◽  
Vol 78 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 223-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth P. Swartz ◽  
Joseph P. Walton ◽  
Edwin C. Hantz ◽  
Elaine Goldhammer ◽  
Garry C. Crummer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Music Perception ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
And Performance

The Role of Awareness in Processing of Oculomotor Capture: Evidence from Event-related Potentials

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 2285-2297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artem V. Belopolsky ◽  
Arthur F. Kramer ◽  
Jan Theeuwes
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Error Detection ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Brain Potentials ◽  
Oculomotor Capture ◽  
Error Related Negativity ◽  
Subjective Awareness ◽  
Error Detection And Correction ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Task Irrelevant

Previous research has shown that task-irrelevant onsets trigger an eye movement in their direction. Such oculomotor capture is often impervious to conscious awareness. The present study used event-related brain potentials to examine how such oculomotor errors are detected, evaluated, and compensated for and whether awareness of an error played a role at any of these stages of processing. The results show that the early processes of error detection and correction (as represented by the error-related negativity and the parietal N1) are not directly affected by subjective awareness of making an error. Instead, they seem to be modulated by the degree of temporal overlap between the programming of the correct and erroneous saccade. We found that only a later component (the error-related positivity [Pe]) is modulated by awareness of making an erroneous eye movement. We propose that awareness of oculomotor capture primarily depends on this later process.

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