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European Journal of Neuroscience. 2022, 56(12), p. 6201-6214

Relationship Between Early Neural Responses to Syntactic and Acoustic Irregularities in Music

John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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2022-11-14

https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15856

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Ishida, K., & Nittono, H. (2022). Relationship Between Early Neural Responses to Syntactic and Acoustic Irregularities in Music. European Journal of Neuroscience., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15856. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.

Humans can detect various anomalies in a sound sequence without attending to each dimension explicitly. Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used to examine the processes of auditory deviance detection. Previous research has shown that music-syntactic anomalies elicit early right anterior negativity (ERAN), while more general acoustic irregularities elicit mismatch negativity (MMN). Although these ERP components occur in a similar latency range with a similar scalp topography, the relationship between the detection processes they reflect remains unclear. This study compared these components by manipulating music-syntactic (chord progression) and acoustic (intensity) irregularities orthogonally in two experiments. Non-musicians (Experiment 1: N = 39; Experiment 2: N = 24) were asked to listen to chord sequences, each consisting of 5 four-voice chords, as they watched a silent video clip. Standard, harmonic-deviant, intensity-deviant, and double-deviant chords occurred at the final position in each sequence. Deviant stimuli were presented infrequently (p = .10) in Experiment 1 and equiprobably (p = .25) in Experiment 2. Regardless of deviance probability, both harmonic and intensity deviants elicited similar negativities, which were indistinguishable in terms of latency or scalp distribution. When the two deviant types occurred simultaneously, the negativity increased in an additive manner; that is, the amplitude of the double-deviant ERP was as large as the sum of the single-deviant ERPs. These findings suggest that the detection of music syntactic and acoustic irregularities works independently, based on different regularity representations.

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Relationship Between Early Neural Responses to Syntactic and Acoustic Irregularities in Music

John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

English

2022-11-14

European Journal of Neuroscience

56

12

6201

6214

https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15856

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/89426