The structural components of music perception. A functional anatomical study.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_E1428616F61B
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
The structural components of music perception. A functional anatomical study.
Journal
Brain
Author(s)
Platel H., Price C., Baron J.C., Wise R., Lambert J., Frackowiak R.S., Lechevalier B., Eustache F.
ISSN
0006-8950 (Print)
ISSN-L
0006-8950
Publication state
Published
Issued date
1997
Volume
120 ( Pt 2)
Pages
229-243
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tPublication Status: ppublish
Abstract
This work explores the cerebral structures involved in the appreciation of music. We studied six young healthy subjects (right handed, French, without musical talent), using a high resolution PET device (CTI 953B) and 15O-labelled water. In three tasks, we studied the effects of selective attention to pitch, timbre and rhythm; a final task studied semantic familiarity with tunes (considered as divided attention for pitch and rhythm). These four tasks were performed on the same material (a tape consisting of 30 randomly arranged sequences of notes). We selected a paradigm, without a reference task, to compare the activations produced by attention to different parameters of the same stimulus. We expected that the activations recorded during each task would differ according to the differences in cognitive operations. We found activations preferentially in the left hemisphere for familiarity, pitch tasks and rhythm, and in the right hemisphere for the timbre task. The familiarity task activated the left inferior frontal gyrus, Brodmann area (BA) 47, and superior temporal gyrus (in its anterior part, BA 22). These activations presumably represent lexico-semantic access to melodic representations. In the pitch task, activations were observed in the left cuneus/precuneus (BA 18/19). These results were unexpected and we interpret them as reflecting a visual mental imagery strategy employed to carry out this task. The rhythm task activated left inferior Broca's area (BA 44/6), with extention into the neighbouring insula, suggesting a role for this cerebral region in the processing of sequential sounds.
Keywords
Adult, Auditory Perception/physiology, Brain/physiology, Brain/radionuclide imaging, Frontal Lobe/physiology, Frontal Lobe/radionuclide imaging, Functional Laterality, Humans, Male, Music, Temporal Lobe/physiology, Temporal Lobe/radionuclide imaging, Tomography, Emission-Computed
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Web of science
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Yes
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