Decomposing neural responses to melodic surprise in musicians and non-musicians: evidence for a hierarchy of predictions in the auditory system

Autor: Peter Vuust, Marcus T. Pearce, N. C. Hansen, Elvira Brattico, Andreas Højlund, D. R. Quiroga-Martinez
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Adult
Male
Melody
Surprise
Auditory Pathways
Cognitive Neuroscience
media_common.quotation_subject
Mismatch negativity
Context (language use)
hierarchy
050105 experimental psychology
lcsh:RC321-571
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Hierarchy
medicine
Humans
Auditory system
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
music
Set (psychology)
lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
media_common
Auditory Cortex
IDyOM
Motivation
Sensory Adaptation
Neural correlates of consciousness
Pitch interval
05 social sciences
Magnetoencephalography
Electroencephalography
prediction
Anticipation
Psychological

medicine.anatomical_structure
Acoustic Stimulation
Neurology
Auditory Perception
Female
Prediction
Psychology
Music
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Forecasting
Cognitive psychology
Zdroj: Quiroga Martinez, D R, Hansen, N C, Højlund, A, Pearce, M, Brattico, E & Vuust, P 2020, ' Decomposing neural responses to melodic surprise in musicians and non-musicians: evidence for a hierarchy of predictions in the auditory system ', NeuroImage, vol. 215, 116816 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116816
NeuroImage, Vol 215, Iss, Pp 116816-(2020)
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116816
Popis: Neural responses to auditory surprise are typically studied with highly unexpected, disruptive sounds. Consequently, little is known about auditory prediction in everyday contexts that are characterized by fine-grained, non-disruptive fluctuations of auditory surprise. To address this issue, we used IDyOM, a computational model of auditory expectation, to obtain continuous surprise estimates for a set of newly composed melodies. Our main goal was to assess whether the neural correlates of non-disruptive surprising sounds in a musical context are affected by musical expertise. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), auditory responses were recorded from musicians and non-musicians while they listened to the melodies. Consistent with a previous study, the amplitude of the N1m component increased with higher levels of computationally estimated surprise. This effect, however, was not different between the two groups. Further analyses offered an explanation for this finding: Pitch interval size itself, rather than probabilistic prediction, was responsible for the modulation of the N1m, thus pointing to low-level sensory adaptation as the underlying mechanism. In turn, the formation of auditory regularities and proper probabilistic prediction were reflected in later components: the mismatch negativity (MMNm) and the P3am, respectively. Overall, our findings reveal a hierarchy of expectations in the auditory system and highlight the need to properly account for sensory adaptation in research addressing statistical learning.Highlights- In melodies, sound expectedness (modeled with IDyOM) is associated with the amplitude of the N1m.- This effect is not different between musicians and non-musicians.- Sensory adaptation related to melodic pitch intervals explains better the N1m effect.- Auditory regularities and the expectations captured by IDyOM are reflected in the MMNm and P3am.- Evidence for a hierarchy of auditory predictions during melodic listening.
Databáze: OpenAIRE