Development of neural discrimination of pitch across speech and music in the first year of life, a mismatch response study

Ao Chen; Varghese Peter; Denis Burnham

doi:10.1080/23273798.2022.2051571

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Development of neural discrimination of pitch across speech and music in the first year of life, a mismatch response study

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Development of neural discrimination of pitch across speech and music in the first year of life, a mismatch response study

Ao Chen, Varghese Peter and Denis Burnham

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Vol.37(9), pp.1153-1168

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2022.2051571

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Abstract

Child and adolescent development

Biological psychology

Cognitive neuroscience

Mismatch negativity

infant development

lexical tones

musical pitch

neural discrimination

This study focuses on the development of neural discrimination of pitch changes in speech and music by English-language adults and 4-, 8- and 12-month-old infants. Speech stimuli were Mandarin Chinese rising and dipping lexical tones and the musical stimuli were three-note melodies with pitch levels based on those of the lexical tones. Mismatch responses were elicited using a non-attentive oddball paradigm. Adults showed mismatch negativity (MMN) responses in both the lexical tone and music conditions. For infants, for the lexical tones, a positive-mismatch response (p-MMR) was observed at 4, 8, and 12 months, whereas for the musical tones, a p-MMR was found for the 4-month-olds, an MMN for the 12-month-olds, and no mismatch response, either positive or negative, for the 8-month-olds. No evidence of cross-domain correlation of the mismatch responses was found. These results suggest domain-specific development of mismatch responses to pitch change in the first year of life.

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Title: Development of neural discrimination of pitch across speech and music in the first year of life, a mismatch response study
Authors: Ao Chen (Corresponding Author) - Beijing Language and Culture University
Varghese Peter (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
Denis Burnham (Author) - Western Sydney University
Publication details: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Vol.37(9), pp.1153-1168
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2022
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2022.2051571
ISSN: 2327-3801
Grants: The seeds of literacy in infancy: empirical specification of the acoustic determinants of language acquisition, DP110105123, Australian Research Council (Australia, Canberra) - ARC
Making speech three-dimensional: Adding tone to consonant- and vowel-based speech perception and language acquisition research, quantification and theory, DP0988201, Australian Research Council (Australia, Canberra) - ARC
Grant note: This study was supported by funding from an Australian Department of Education Endeavor Research Fellowship (ERF_PDR_113381_201) and by funding from Beijing Language and Culture University Reform Project of Education and Teaching (XJG201922) to the first author.
Organisation Unit: School of Health - Psychology; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99620807602621
Output Type: Journal article

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