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Barchet AV, Rimmele JM, Pelofi C. TenseMusic: An automatic prediction model for musical tension. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0296385. [PMID: 38241238 PMCID: PMC10798497 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024] Open
Abstract
The perception of tension and release dynamics constitutes one of the essential aspects of music listening. However, modeling musical tension to predict perception of listeners has been a challenge to researchers. Seminal work demonstrated that tension is reported consistently by listeners and can be accurately predicted from a discrete set of musical features, combining them into a weighted sum of slopes reflecting their combined dynamics over time. However, previous modeling approaches lack an automatic pipeline for feature extraction that would make them widely accessible to researchers in the field. Here, we present TenseMusic: an open-source automatic predictive tension model that operates with a musical audio as the only input. Using state-of-the-art music information retrieval (MIR) methods, it automatically extracts a set of six features (i.e., loudness, pitch height, tonal tension, roughness, tempo, and onset frequency) to use as predictors for musical tension. The algorithm was optimized using Lasso regression to best predict behavioral tension ratings collected on 38 Western classical musical pieces. Its performance was then tested by assessing the correlation between the predicted tension and unseen continuous behavioral tension ratings yielding large mean correlations between ratings and predictions approximating r = .60 across all pieces. We hope that providing the research community with this well-validated open-source tool for predicting musical tension will motivate further work in music cognition and contribute to elucidate the neural and cognitive correlates of tension dynamics for various musical genres and cultures.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alice Vivien Barchet
- Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
- Center for Language, Music and Emotion, New York University and the Max Plank Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Center for Language, Music and Emotion, New York University and the Max Plank Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, New York, NY, United States of America
- Music and Audio Research Laboratory, New York University, New York, NY, United States of America
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Ossandón JP, Stange L, Gudi-Mindermann H, Rimmele JM, Sourav S, Bottari D, Kekunnaya R, Röder B. The development of oscillatory and aperiodic resting state activity is linked to a sensitive period in humans. Neuroimage 2023; 275:120171. [PMID: 37196987 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Congenital blindness leads to profound changes in electroencephalographic (EEG) resting state activity. A well-known consequence of congenital blindness in humans is the reduction of alpha activity which seems to go together with increased gamma activity during rest. These results have been interpreted as indicating a higher excitatory/inhibitory (E/I) ratio in visual cortex compared to normally sighted controls. Yet it is unknown whether the spectral profile of EEG during rest would recover if sight were restored. To test this question, the present study evaluated periodic and aperiodic components of the EEG resting state power spectrum. Previous research has linked the aperiodic components, which exhibit a power-law distribution and are operationalized as a linear fit of the spectrum in log-log space, to cortical E/I ratio. Moreover, by correcting for the aperiodic components from the power spectrum, a more valid estimate of the periodic activity is possible. Here we analyzed resting state EEG activity from two studies involving (1) 27 permanently congenitally blind adults (CB) and 27 age-matched normally sighted controls (MCB); (2) 38 individuals with reversed blindness due to bilateral, dense, congenital cataracts (CC) and 77 age-matched sighted controls (MCC). Based on a data driven approach, aperiodic components of the spectra were extracted for the low frequency (Lf-Slope 1.5 to 19.5 Hz) and high frequency (Hf-Slope 20 to 45 Hz) range. The Lf-Slope of the aperiodic component was significantly steeper (more negative slope), and the Hf-Slope of the aperiodic component was significantly flatter (less negative slope) in CB and CC participants compared to the typically sighted controls. Alpha power was significantly reduced, and gamma power was higher in the CB and the CC groups. These results suggest a sensitive period for the typical development of the spectral profile during rest and thus likely an irreversible change in the E/I ratio in visual cortex due to congenital blindness. We speculate that these changes are a consequence of impaired inhibitory circuits and imbalanced feedforward and feedback processing in early visual areas of individuals with a history of congenital blindness.
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- José P Ossandón
- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany; Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Max Planck NYU Center for Language, Music, and Emotion Frankfurt am Main, Germany, New York, NY, USA
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
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- Child Sight Institute, Jasti V Ramanamma Children's Eye Care Center, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Child Sight Institute, Jasti V Ramanamma Children's Eye Care Center, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India
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Lubinus C, Keitel A, Obleser J, Poeppel D, Rimmele JM. Explaining flexible continuous speech comprehension from individual motor rhythms. Proc Biol Sci 2023; 290:20222410. [PMID: 36855868 PMCID: PMC9975658 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/02/2023] Open
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When speech is too fast, the tracking of the acoustic signal along the auditory pathway deteriorates, leading to suboptimal speech segmentation and decoding of speech information. Thus, speech comprehension is limited by the temporal constraints of the auditory system. Here we ask whether individual differences in auditory-motor coupling strength in part shape these temporal constraints. In two behavioural experiments, we characterize individual differences in the comprehension of naturalistic speech as function of the individual synchronization between the auditory and motor systems and the preferred frequencies of the systems. Obviously, speech comprehension declined at higher speech rates. Importantly, however, both higher auditory-motor synchronization and higher spontaneous speech motor production rates were predictive of better speech-comprehension performance. Furthermore, performance increased with higher working memory capacity (digit span) and higher linguistic, model-based sentence predictability-particularly so at higher speech rates and for individuals with high auditory-motor synchronization. The data provide evidence for a model of speech comprehension in which individual flexibility of not only the motor system but also auditory-motor synchronization may play a modulatory role.
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- Christina Lubinus
- Department of Neuroscience and Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Center for Brain, Behavior, and Metabolism, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
- Max Planck NYU Center for Language, Music, and Emotion, New York, NY, USA
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience (in Cooperation with Max Planck Society), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Neuroscience and Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Max Planck NYU Center for Language, Music, and Emotion, New York, NY, USA
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Rimmele JM, Sun Y, Michalareas G, Ghitza O, Poeppel D. Dynamics of Functional Networks for Syllable and Word-Level Processing. Neurobiol Lang (Camb) 2023; 4:120-144. [PMID: 37229144 PMCID: PMC10205074 DOI: 10.1162/nol_a_00089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Speech comprehension requires the ability to temporally segment the acoustic input for higher-level linguistic analysis. Oscillation-based approaches suggest that low-frequency auditory cortex oscillations track syllable-sized acoustic information and therefore emphasize the relevance of syllabic-level acoustic processing for speech segmentation. How syllabic processing interacts with higher levels of speech processing, beyond segmentation, including the anatomical and neurophysiological characteristics of the networks involved, is debated. In two MEG experiments, we investigate lexical and sublexical word-level processing and the interactions with (acoustic) syllable processing using a frequency-tagging paradigm. Participants listened to disyllabic words presented at a rate of 4 syllables/s. Lexical content (native language), sublexical syllable-to-syllable transitions (foreign language), or mere syllabic information (pseudo-words) were presented. Two conjectures were evaluated: (i) syllable-to-syllable transitions contribute to word-level processing; and (ii) processing of words activates brain areas that interact with acoustic syllable processing. We show that syllable-to-syllable transition information compared to mere syllable information, activated a bilateral superior, middle temporal and inferior frontal network. Lexical content resulted, additionally, in increased neural activity. Evidence for an interaction of word- and acoustic syllable-level processing was inconclusive. Decreases in syllable tracking (cerebroacoustic coherence) in auditory cortex and increases in cross-frequency coupling between right superior and middle temporal and frontal areas were found when lexical content was present compared to all other conditions; however, not when conditions were compared separately. The data provide experimental insight into how subtle and sensitive syllable-to-syllable transition information for word-level processing is.
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- Johanna M. Rimmele
- Departments of Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuropsychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Max Planck NYU Center for Language, Music and Emotion, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; New York, NY, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuropsychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuropsychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuropsychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- College of Biomedical Engineering & Hearing Research Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuropsychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
- Max Planck NYU Center for Language, Music and Emotion, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; New York, NY, USA
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Rimmele JM, Kern P, Lubinus C, Frieler K, Poeppel D, Assaneo MF. Musical Sophistication and Speech Auditory-Motor Coupling: Easy Tests for Quick Answers. Front Neurosci 2022; 15:764342. [PMID: 35058741 PMCID: PMC8763673 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.764342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
Abstract
Musical training enhances auditory-motor cortex coupling, which in turn facilitates music and speech perception. How tightly the temporal processing of music and speech are intertwined is a topic of current research. We investigated the relationship between musical sophistication (Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication index, Gold-MSI) and spontaneous speech-to-speech synchronization behavior as an indirect measure of speech auditory-motor cortex coupling strength. In a group of participants (n = 196), we tested whether the outcome of the spontaneous speech-to-speech synchronization test (SSS-test) can be inferred from self-reported musical sophistication. Participants were classified as high (HIGHs) or low (LOWs) synchronizers according to the SSS-test. HIGHs scored higher than LOWs on all Gold-MSI subscales (General Score, Active Engagement, Musical Perception, Musical Training, Singing Skills), but the Emotional Attachment scale. More specifically, compared to a previously reported German-speaking sample, HIGHs overall scored higher and LOWs lower. Compared to an estimated distribution of the English-speaking general population, our sample overall scored lower, with the scores of LOWs significantly differing from the normal distribution, with scores in the ∼30th percentile. While HIGHs more often reported musical training compared to LOWs, the distribution of training instruments did not vary across groups. Importantly, even after the highly correlated subscores of the Gold-MSI were decorrelated, particularly the subscales Musical Perception and Musical Training allowed to infer the speech-to-speech synchronization behavior. The differential effects of musical perception and training were observed, with training predicting audio-motor synchronization in both groups, but perception only in the HIGHs. Our findings suggest that speech auditory-motor cortex coupling strength can be inferred from training and perceptual aspects of musical sophistication, suggesting shared mechanisms involved in speech and music perception.
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- Johanna M. Rimmele
- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
- Max Planck NYU Center for Language, Music and Emotion, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
- Max Planck NYU Center for Language, Music and Emotion, New York, NY, United States
- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
- Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, México
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Decoding the rich temporal dynamics of complex sounds such as speech is constrained by the underlying neuronal-processing mechanisms. Oscillatory theories suggest the existence of one optimal perceptual performance regime at auditory stimulation rates in the delta to theta range (< 10 Hz), but reduced performance in the alpha range (10-14 Hz) is controversial. Additionally, the widely discussed motor system contribution to timing remains unclear. We measured rate discrimination thresholds between 4 and 15 Hz, and auditory-motor coupling strength was estimated through a behavioral auditory-motor synchronization task. In a Bayesian model comparison, high auditory-motor synchronizers showed a larger range of constant optimal temporal judgments than low synchronizers, with performance decreasing in the alpha range. This evidence for optimal processing in the theta range is consistent with preferred oscillatory regimes in auditory cortex that compartmentalize stimulus encoding and processing. The findings suggest, remarkably, that increased auditory-motor synchronization might extend such an optimal range towards faster rates.
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- Pius Kern
- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Grüneburgweg 14, 60322, Frankfurt/M, Germany
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- Instituto de Neurobiologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Juriquilla, Campus UNAM 3001, 76230, Juriquilla, Qro., Mexico
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- Department of Psychology, Philipps University Marburg, Gutenbergstraße 18, 35032, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Grüneburgweg 14, 60322, Frankfurt/M, Germany
- Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, NY, 10003, USA
- Max Planck NYU Center for Language, Music, and Emotion, Frankfurt/M, Germany, NY, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Grüneburgweg 14, 60322, Frankfurt/M, Germany.
- Max Planck NYU Center for Language, Music, and Emotion, Frankfurt/M, Germany, NY, USA.
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Lubinus C, Orpella J, Keitel A, Gudi-Mindermann H, Engel AK, Roeder B, Rimmele JM. Data-Driven Classification of Spectral Profiles Reveals Brain Region-Specific Plasticity in Blindness. Cereb Cortex 2021; 31:2505-2522. [PMID: 33338212 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2020] [Revised: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Congenital blindness has been shown to result in behavioral adaptation and neuronal reorganization, but the underlying neuronal mechanisms are largely unknown. Brain rhythms are characteristic for anatomically defined brain regions and provide a putative mechanistic link to cognitive processes. In a novel approach, using magnetoencephalography resting state data of congenitally blind and sighted humans, deprivation-related changes in spectral profiles were mapped to the cortex using clustering and classification procedures. Altered spectral profiles in visual areas suggest changes in visual alpha-gamma band inhibitory-excitatory circuits. Remarkably, spectral profiles were also altered in auditory and right frontal areas showing increased power in theta-to-beta frequency bands in blind compared with sighted individuals, possibly related to adaptive auditory and higher cognitive processing. Moreover, occipital alpha correlated with microstructural white matter properties extending bilaterally across posterior parts of the brain. We provide evidence that visual deprivation selectively modulates spectral profiles, possibly reflecting structural and functional adaptation.
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- Christina Lubinus
- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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- Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.,Department of Social Epidemiology, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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Evidence suggests that temporal predictions arising from the motor system can enhance auditory perception. However, in speech perception, we lack evidence of perception being modulated by production. Here we show a behavioural protocol that captures the existence of such auditory-motor interactions. Participants performed a syllable discrimination task immediately after producing periodic syllable sequences. Two speech rates were explored: a 'natural' (individually preferred) and a fixed 'non-natural' (2 Hz) rate. Using a decoding approach, we show that perceptual performance is modulated by the stimulus phase determined by a participant's own motor rhythm. Remarkably, for 'natural' and 'non-natural' rates, this finding is restricted to a subgroup of the population with quantifiable auditory-motor coupling. The observed pattern is compatible with a neural model assuming a bidirectional interaction of auditory and speech motor cortices. Crucially, the model matches the experimental results only if it incorporates individual differences in the strength of the auditory-motor connection.
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- M Florencia Assaneo
- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA. .,Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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- Department of Physics, FCEyN, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.,University of San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Gudi-Mindermann H, Rimmele JM, Bruns P, Kloosterman NA, Donner TH, Engel AK, Röder B. Post-training Load-Related Changes of Auditory Working Memory - An EEG Study. Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:72. [PMID: 32256326 PMCID: PMC7092637 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Working memory (WM) refers to the temporary retention and manipulation of information, and its capacity is highly susceptible to training. Yet, the neural mechanisms that allow for increased performance under demanding conditions are not fully understood. We expected that post-training efficiency in WM performance modulates neural processing during high load tasks. We tested this hypothesis, using electroencephalography (EEG) (N = 39), by comparing source space spectral power of healthy adults performing low and high load auditory WM tasks. Prior to the assessment, participants either underwent a modality-specific auditory WM training, or a modality-irrelevant tactile WM training, or were not trained (active control). After a modality-specific training participants showed higher behavioral performance, compared to the control. EEG data analysis revealed general effects of WM load, across all training groups, in the theta-, alpha-, and beta-frequency bands. With increased load theta-band power increased over frontal, and decreased over parietal areas. Centro-parietal alpha-band power and central beta-band power decreased with load. Interestingly, in the high load condition a tendency toward reduced beta-band power in the right medial temporal lobe was observed in the modality-specific WM training group compared to the modality-irrelevant and active control groups. Our finding that WM processing during the high load condition changed after modality-specific WM training, showing reduced beta-band activity in voice-selective regions, possibly indicates a more efficient maintenance of task-relevant stimuli. The general load effects suggest that WM performance at high load demands involves complementary mechanisms, combining a strengthening of task-relevant and a suppression of task-irrelevant processing.
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- Helene Gudi-Mindermann
- Department of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.,Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Assaneo MF, Rimmele JM, Orpella J, Ripollés P, de Diego-Balaguer R, Poeppel D. Corrigendum: The Lateralization of Speech-Brain Coupling Is Differentially Modulated by Intrinsic Auditory and Top-Down Mechanisms. Front Integr Neurosci 2020; 14:2. [PMID: 32116581 PMCID: PMC7011985 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2020.00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 01/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- M F Assaneo
- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
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- Departament de Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Catalan Institute for Research and Advance Studies, Barcelona, Spain.,Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain.,Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, United States.,Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
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Gudi-Mindermann H, Rimmele JM, Nolte G, Bruns P, Engel AK, Röder B. Working memory training in congenitally blind individuals results in an integration of occipital cortex in functional networks. Behav Brain Res 2018; 348:31-41. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2018.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2017] [Revised: 04/02/2018] [Accepted: 04/03/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- Johanna M Rimmele
- Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPG), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institut für Biomagnetismus und Biosignalanalyse, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States
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- Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Rimmele JM, Gudi-Mindermann H, Nolte G, Röder B, Engel AK. Working memory beta-band networks: Neuroplasticity in the congenitally blind. Int J Psychophysiol 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.07.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Rimmele JM, Zion Golumbic E, Schröger E, Poeppel D. The effects of selective attention and speech acoustics on neural speech-tracking in a multi-talker scene. Cortex 2015; 68:144-54. [PMID: 25650107 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2014] [Revised: 10/14/2014] [Accepted: 12/10/2014] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
Abstract
Attending to one speaker in multi-speaker situations is challenging. One neural mechanism proposed to underlie the ability to attend to a particular speaker is phase-locking of low-frequency activity in auditory cortex to speech's temporal envelope ("speech-tracking"), which is more precise for attended speech. However, it is not known what brings about this attentional effect, and specifically if it reflects enhanced processing of the fine structure of attended speech. To investigate this question we compared attentional effects on speech-tracking of natural versus vocoded speech which preserves the temporal envelope but removes the fine structure of speech. Pairs of natural and vocoded speech stimuli were presented concurrently and participants attended to one stimulus and performed a detection task while ignoring the other stimulus. We recorded magnetoencephalography (MEG) and compared attentional effects on the speech-tracking response in auditory cortex. Speech-tracking of natural, but not vocoded, speech was enhanced by attention, whereas neural tracking of ignored speech was similar for natural and vocoded speech. These findings suggest that the more precise speech-tracking of attended natural speech is related to processing its fine structure, possibly reflecting the application of higher-order linguistic processes. In contrast, when speech is unattended its fine structure is not processed to the same degree and thus elicits less precise speech-tracking more similar to vocoded speech.
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Affiliation(s)
- Johanna M Rimmele
- Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA; Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
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- Gonda Center for Brain Research, Bar Ilan University, Israel; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA; Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany.
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