Behavioral and subcortical signatures of musical expertise in Mandarin Chinese speakers.
Both musical training and native language have been shown to have experience-based plastic effects on auditory processing. However, the combined effects within individuals are unclear. Recent research suggests that musical training and tone language speaking are not clearly additive in their effects...
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| description | Both musical training and native language have been shown to have experience-based plastic effects on auditory processing. However, the combined effects within individuals are unclear. Recent research suggests that musical training and tone language speaking are not clearly additive in their effects on processing of auditory features and that there may be a disconnect between perceptual and neural signatures of auditory feature processing. The literature has only recently begun to investigate the effects of musical expertise on basic auditory processing for different linguistic groups. This work provides a profile of primary auditory feature discrimination for Mandarin speaking musicians and nonmusicians. The musicians showed enhanced perceptual discrimination for both frequency and duration as well as enhanced duration discrimination in a multifeature discrimination task, compared to nonmusicians. However, there were no differences between the groups in duration processing of nonspeech sounds at a subcortical level or in subcortical frequency representation of a nonnative tone contour, for fo or for the first or second formant region. The results indicate that musical expertise provides a cognitive, but not subcortical, advantage in a population of Mandarin speakers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0c4eb9c7266e4e55bf0e142f108afd6a2022-12-22T01:22:25ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032018-01-01131e019079310.1371/journal.pone.0190793Behavioral and subcortical signatures of musical expertise in Mandarin Chinese speakers.Caitlin DawsonMari TervaniemiDaniel AaltoBoth musical training and native language have been shown to have experience-based plastic effects on auditory processing. However, the combined effects within individuals are unclear. Recent research suggests that musical training and tone language speaking are not clearly additive in their effects on processing of auditory features and that there may be a disconnect between perceptual and neural signatures of auditory feature processing. The literature has only recently begun to investigate the effects of musical expertise on basic auditory processing for different linguistic groups. This work provides a profile of primary auditory feature discrimination for Mandarin speaking musicians and nonmusicians. The musicians showed enhanced perceptual discrimination for both frequency and duration as well as enhanced duration discrimination in a multifeature discrimination task, compared to nonmusicians. However, there were no differences between the groups in duration processing of nonspeech sounds at a subcortical level or in subcortical frequency representation of a nonnative tone contour, for fo or for the first or second formant region. The results indicate that musical expertise provides a cognitive, but not subcortical, advantage in a population of Mandarin speakers.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5754139?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Caitlin Dawson Mari Tervaniemi Daniel Aalto Behavioral and subcortical signatures of musical expertise in Mandarin Chinese speakers. PLoS ONE |
| title | Behavioral and subcortical signatures of musical expertise in Mandarin Chinese speakers. |
| title_full | Behavioral and subcortical signatures of musical expertise in Mandarin Chinese speakers. |
| title_fullStr | Behavioral and subcortical signatures of musical expertise in Mandarin Chinese speakers. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Behavioral and subcortical signatures of musical expertise in Mandarin Chinese speakers. |
| title_short | Behavioral and subcortical signatures of musical expertise in Mandarin Chinese speakers. |
| title_sort | behavioral and subcortical signatures of musical expertise in mandarin chinese speakers |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5754139?pdf=render |
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