USES AND FUNCTIONS OF MUSIC IN CONGENITAL AMUSIA

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLAIRE MCDONALD ◽  
LAUREN STEWART
Keyword(s):  
Music Perception ◽  
Music Appreciation ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Control Range ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Congenital Amusia ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Normal Potential

THE GOAL OF THIS STUDY WAS TO ASCERTAIN whether deficits in music perception impact upon music appreciation. Likert ratings were gathered from congenital amusics and matched controls concerning the degree to which individuals incorporate music in their everyday lives, are able to achieve certain psychological states through music, and feel positively about music imposed upon them. Those with amusia reported incorporating music into everyday activities to a lesser degree than controls. They also reported experiencing fewer changes in psychological states when listening to music and felt more negatively about imposed music compared to controls. However, the scores of some amusic individuals fell within the control range on these questionnaires, providing some evidence for a developmental dissociation between music perception (impaired) and music appreciation (normal). Potential reasons for this dissociation are discussed.

scholarly journals Designing everyday automation with well-being in mind

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 763-779
Author(s):  
Holger Klapperich ◽  
Alarith Uhde ◽  
Marc Hassenzahl
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Press ◽  
Meaningful Experiences ◽  
Automated Processes

AbstractNowadays, automation not only permeates industry but also becomes a substantial part of our private, everyday lives. Driven by the idea of increased convenience and more time for the “important things in life,” automation relieves us from many daily chores—robots vacuum floors and automated coffee makers produce supposedly barista-quality coffee on the press of a button. In many cases, these offers are embraced by people without further questioning. However, while we save time by delegating more and more everyday activities to automation, we also may lose chances for enjoyable and meaningful experiences. In two field studies, we demonstrate that a manual process has experiential benefits over more automated processes by using the example of coffee-making. We present a way to account for potential experiential costs of everyday automation and strategies of how to design interaction with automation to reconcile experience with the advantages of a more and more powerful automation.

MUSIC LISTENING IN INTERDISCIPLINARY VIEW

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 528
Author(s):  
Mirdza Paipare
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Music Perception ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Music Pedagogy ◽  
Music Therapist ◽  
Music Psychology ◽  
Communication Development ◽  
Everyday Lives

Very few researches focus on music as an activity and most often it is linked to music perception, therefore – music psychology. Similarly the theories on this question are developed. Interrelations between music therapy and music psychology, as well as the role of listening and music listening in music pedagogy, psychology and music therapy are little researched. The goal of this article is to intentionally draw attention to the significance of this very common thing in our everyday lives – listening – in communication, development of cognitive and phenomenological skills and abilities (perception, recognition, describing, explaining). These skills and abilities are necessary in the work of pedagogue and psychologist, and especially music therapist.  

scholarly journals The Effects of Training on Music Perception and Appreciation for Cochlear Implant Recipients

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Looi ◽  
Yuhan Wong ◽  
Jenny H. Y. Loo
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Music Perception ◽  
Control Period ◽  
Music Appreciation ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Speech In Noise ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Instrument Identification ◽  
Quality Rating ◽  
Better Than

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a music appreciation training program (MATP) to that of focused music listening (FML) for improving music and/or speech in noise perception for postlingually deafened cochlear implant (CI) recipients. It was hypothesized that the MATP would show greater improvements than FML. Ten CI recipients were randomly divided into two groups: one undertaking the MATP and the other undertaking FML. Participants completed four 30-minute sessions per week for 8 weeks, with tests of music and speech-in-noise perception being administered four times per participant: before and after a control period, immediately after the intervention, and 4–8 weeks after intervention. There was a significant pre- to posttraining difference for the MATP group on the instrument identification test, as well as for half of the quality rating assessments. Although no statistically significant improvements were obtained for the FML group, there was a trend of higher scores postintervention for the instrument and ensemble identification tests, and compliance was substantially better than for the MATP group. While the results showed that only the music training significantly improved music perception, the potential of FML to benefit some CI recipients for some tasks was also observed.

Song imitation in congenital amusia: Performance partially facilitated by melody familiarity but not by phonetic content

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariadne Loutrari ◽  
Cunmei Jiang ◽  
Fang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Music Perception ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Absolute Pitch ◽  
Matching Accuracy ◽  
Pitch Interval ◽  
Opposite Pattern ◽  
Lexical Information ◽  
Congenital Amusia ◽  
Vocal Imitation ◽  
Pitch Deviation

Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder of pitch perception that may also compromise pitch production. We explored whether vocal imitation of song in amusia is influenced by melody familiarity and phonetic content. Thirteen Mandarin-speaking amusics and 13 matched controls imitated novel song segments with lyrics and on the syllable /la/ while their output was recorded. Eleven out of these participants in each group also imitated segments of a familiar song. Subsequent acoustic analysis was conducted to measure pitch and timing matching accuracy. While amusics’ performance was facilitated by melody familiarity in terms of pitch interval deviation, signed interval deviation and number of contour errors, they showed compromised performance compared to controls in absolute pitch deviation, number of pitch interval errors, duration difference, interonset interval difference, and number of time errors in both familiar and novel song conditions. The presence of lyrics did not affect either group’s performance substantially. While a stronger relationship between music perception and novel melody imitation was observed in amusics as opposed to familiar melody imitation, controls showed the opposite pattern. We discuss the implications of the study in terms of music familiarity, memory demands, the relevance of lexical information and the link between perception and production.

scholarly journals Food, Photographs, and Frames: Photo Elicitation in a Canadian Qualitative Food Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Sonya Sharma ◽  
Gwen Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Food Habits ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Food Environments ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Everyday Lives

Photo elicitation was employed in a cross-Canada study on family food habits as a means of understanding the meanings that people associate with food. From each family who took part in the study, at least one parent and one adolescent were asked to participate in a qualitative interview, to take photographs of how food fits into their everyday lives, and to participate in a second interview about their photos. In using photo elicitation, we were interested in ways in which participants eat, cook, and shop for food—everyday activities that are often taken for granted. In this article, we examine photographs and interview data provided by two mothers from the same rural community. We explore what their words and photographs reveal about their food worlds, both as self-representations reflecting the food environments in which they are embedded, and as the frames through which those environments are subsequently viewed and constructed.

Music Perception in Acquired Prosopagnosia: An Anterior Temporal Syndrome for Faces, Voices and Music

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason J S Barton ◽  
Jacob L Stubbs ◽  
Sebastien Paquette ◽  
Brad Duchaine ◽  
Gottfried Schlaug ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Music Perception ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Voice Recognition ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Pitch Perception ◽  
Music Appreciation ◽  
Rhythm Perception ◽  
Occipitotemporal Cortex ◽  
The Right ◽  
Musical Memory

ABSTRACTBackgroundAcquired prosopagnosia is often associated with other deficits, such as dyschromatopsia and topographagnosia, from damage to adjacent perceptual networks. A recent study showed that some subjects with developmental prosopagnosia also have congenital amusia, but problems with music perception have not been described in the acquired variant.ObjectiveOur goal was to determine if music perception was also impaired in subjects with acquired prosopagnosia, and if so, its anatomic correlate.MethodsWe studied eight subjects with acquired prosopagnosia, all of whom had extensive neuropsychological and neuroimaging testing. They performed a battery of tests evaluating pitch and rhythm processing, including the Montréal Battery for the Evaluation of Amusia.ResultsThree of eight subjects with acquired prosopagnosia had impaired musical pitch perception while rhythm perception was spared. Two of the three also showed reduced musical memory. These three reported alterations in their emotional experience of music: one reported music anhedonia and aversion, while the remaining two had changes consistent with musicophilia. The lesions of these three subjects affected the right or bilateral temporal poles as well as the right amygdala and insula. None of the three prosopagnosic subjects with lesions limited to the inferior occipitotemporal cortex had impaired pitch perception or musical memory, or reported changes in music appreciation.ConclusionTogether with the results of our previous studies of voice recognition, these findings indicate an anterior temporal agnosia syndrome that can include the amnestic variant of prosopagnosia, phonagnosia, and various alterations in music perception, including acquired amusia, reduced musical memory, and altered emotional responses to music.

scholarly journals Retirement Rhythms: Retirees’ Management of Time and Activities in Denmark

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Aske Juul Lassen ◽  
Kenneth Mertz ◽  
Lars Holm ◽  
Astrid Pernille Jespersen
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Randomised Controlled

We scrutinize how the everyday lives of well-educated and healthy Danish retirees are structured and experienced and study how they organise their days and weeks. Our aim is to investigate how retirees manage and organise time and the ways these relate to societal rhythms in order to contribute to theories of retirement and social gerontology. We have combined qualitative (individual interviews, focus group interviews, design games, and drawings) and quantitative (activity monitoring, sleep quality, and health markers) data from 13 participants over the age of 65 years, who are research participants in a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Our interdisciplinary dataset allows us to analyse and compare subjective experiences of everyday activities with objective measures of daily activities. The older adults lead busy lives with many diverse activities and use these to structure their everyday lives in ways resembling the rhythms of the labour market with organised and busy mornings and loose afternoons and evenings. We discuss how our findings relate to continuity theory and suggest that Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis allows us to study the retirement rhythms of older adults as part of both biological, social, and societal rhythms. This has practical as well as conceptual implications.

scholarly journals Emotional prosody in congenital amusia: impaired and spared processes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Pralus ◽  
L. Fornoni ◽  
R. Bouet ◽  
M. Gomot ◽  
A. Bhatara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Music Perception ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Disorder ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
List Type ◽  
Emotional Prosody ◽  
Implicit Processing ◽  
Implicit Processes ◽  
Pitch Processing ◽  
Congenital Amusia ◽  
Explicit Recognition

AbstractCongenital amusia is a lifelong deficit of music processing, in particular of pitch processing. Most research investigating this neurodevelopmental disorder has focused on music perception, but pitch also has a critical role for intentional and emotional prosody in speech. Two previous studies investigating amusics’ emotional prosody recognition have shown either some deficit or no deficit (compared to controls). However, these previous studies have used only long sentence stimuli, which allow for limited control over acoustic content. Here, we tested amusic individuals for emotional prosody perception in sentences and vowels. For each type of material, participants performed an emotion categorization task, followed by intensity ratings of the recognized emotion. Compared to controls, amusic individuals had similar recognition of emotion in sentences, but poorer performance in vowels, especially when distinguishing sad and neutral stimuli. These lower performances in amusics were linked with difficulties in processing pitch and spectro-temporal parameters of the vowel stimuli. For emotion intensity, neither sentence nor vowel ratings differed between participant groups, suggesting preserved implicit processing of emotional prosody in amusia. These findings can be integrated into previous data showing preserved implicit processing of pitch and emotion in amusia alongside deficits in explicit recognition tasks. They are thus further supporting the hypothesis of impaired conscious analysis of pitch and timbre in this neurodevelopmental disorder.HighlightsAmusics showed preserved emotional prosody recognition in sentencesAmusics showed a deficit for emotional prosody recognition in short voice samplesPreserved intensity ratings of emotions in amusia suggest spared implicit processes

Music Appreciation after Cochlear Implantation in Adult Patients: A Systematic Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 158 (6) ◽  
pp. 1002-1010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phoebe E. Riley ◽  
Douglas S. Ruhl ◽  
Macario Camacho ◽  
Anthony M. Tolisano
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
English Language ◽  
Music Perception ◽  
Outcome Measurement ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Music Appreciation ◽  
Cochrane Library ◽  
Language Studies

Objective The cochlear implant (CI) improves quality of life for people who are severely and profoundly deafened, allowing implantees to perceive speech at levels similar to those of individuals with normal hearing. However, patients with CIs generally report a reduced appreciation of music after implantation. We aimed to systematically review the English-language literature for studies evaluating music enjoyment and perception among adult patients with CIs. Data Sources A systematic review of PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Embase, and the Cochrane Library. Review Methods The PRISMA statement was utilized to identify English-language studies reporting music appreciation among adults with CIs. Two independent reviewers performed searches through May 2017. Included studies investigated parameters related to music enjoyment and music perception, including (1) pitch and timbre perception, (2) noise-canceling algorithms, and (3) the presence of dissonant chords, lyrics, or visual cues. Results A total of 508 articles were screened for relevance. Forty-one full-text articles were evaluated, and 18 met final inclusion criteria. Studies used heterogeneous methods of outcome measurement for identifying music appreciation. The outcome measures suggest that rhythm and lyrics are important components of enjoyment. Patients with CIs had difficulty with pitch and timbre perception. Conclusion The heterogeneous outcome measures identified in this systematic review suggest that rhythm and lyrics are important components of enjoyment, while patients with CIs had difficulty with pitch and timbre perception. Because there is no standardized reporting metric for music appreciation among adult patients with CIs, a standardized validated outcome-measuring tool is warranted.

scholarly journals Increased Resting-State Interhemispheric Functional Connectivity of Posterior Superior Temporal Gyrus and Posterior Cingulate Cortex in Congenital Amusia

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhishuai Jin ◽  
Sizhu Huyang ◽  
Lichen Jiang ◽  
Yajun Yan ◽  
Ming Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Connectivity ◽  
Resting State ◽  
Music Perception ◽  
Superior Temporal Gyrus ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Posterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Posterior Cingulate ◽  
Congenital Amusia

Interhemispheric connectivity of the two cerebral hemispheres is crucial for a broad repertoire of cognitive functions including music and language. Congenital amusia has been reported as a neurodevelopment disorder characterized by impaired music perception and production. However, little is known about the characteristics of the interhemispheric functional connectivity (FC) in amusia. In the present study, we used a newly developed voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) method to investigate the interhemispheric FC of the whole brain in amusia at resting-state. Thirty amusics and 29 matched participants underwent a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. An automated VMHC approach was used to analyze the fMRI data. Compared to the control group, amusics showed increased VMHC within the posterior part of the default mode network (DMN) mainly in the posterior superior temporal gyrus (pSTG) and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC). Correlation analyses revealed negative correlations between the VMHC value in pSTG/PCC and the music perception ability among amusics. Further ROC analyses showed that the VMHC value of pSTG/PCC showed a good sensibility/specificity to differentiate the amusics from the controls. These findings provide a new perspective for understanding the neural basis of congenital amusia and imply the immature state of DMN may be a credible neural marker of amusia.

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