Early auditory processing in musicians and dancers during a contemporary dance piece

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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Early auditory processing in musicians and dancers during a contemporary dance piece

Petri Toiviainen Hanna Poikonen Mari Tervaniemi

subject

PITCH Male Dance Emotions Mismatch negativity dancers Contemporary dance 0302 clinical medicine Cognition Natural (music)aivotutkimus Natural sounds Evoked Potentials auditory processing media_common N100 muusikot Multidisciplinary natural sounds BRAIN RESPONSES 05 social sciences musicians Brain Choreography (dance)Magnetic Resonance Imaging brain research MUSICAL EMOTIONS ta6131 Auditory Perception Female TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY Psychology Cognitive psychology Adult CORTEX 515 Psychology media_common.quotation_subject musiikki ta3112 050105 experimental psychology Article 03 medical and health sciences tanssijat Perception neural responses NONMUSICIANS Humans MISMATCH NEGATIVITY 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences music Dancing PERCEPTION P50 3112 Neurosciences 030217 neurology & neurosurgery

description

AbstractThe neural responses to simple tones and short sound sequences have been studied extensively. However, in reality the sounds surrounding us are spectrally and temporally complex, dynamic and overlapping. Thus, research using natural sounds is crucial in understanding the operation of the brain in its natural environment. Music is an excellent example of natural stimulation which, in addition to sensory responses, elicits vast cognitive and emotional processes in the brain. Here we show that the preattentive P50 response evoked by rapid increases in timbral brightness during continuous music is enhanced in dancers when compared to musicians and laymen. In dance, fast changes in brightness are often emphasized with a significant change in movement. In addition, the auditory N100 and P200 responses are suppressed and sped up in dancers, musicians and laymen when music is accompanied with a dance choreography. These results were obtained with a novel event-related potential (ERP) method for natural music. They suggest that we can begin studying the brain with long pieces of natural music using the ERP method of electroencephalography (EEG) as has already been done with functional magnetic resonance (fMRI), these two brain imaging methods complementing each other.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2016-09-09

http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201609124080