Discrimination of stress in speech and music: a mismatch negativity (MMN) study

Varghese Peter; Genevieve McArthur; William F Thompson

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01472.x

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Discrimination of stress in speech and music: a mismatch negativity (MMN) study

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Discrimination of stress in speech and music: a mismatch negativity (MMN) study

Varghese Peter, Genevieve McArthur and William F Thompson

Psychophysiology, Vol.49(12), pp.1590-1600

2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01472.x

PMID: 23066846

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Developmental Psychology and Ageing

Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)

Music

speech

event related potentials

mismatch negativity

discrimination

The aim of this study was to determine if duration-related stress in speech and music is processed in a similar way in the brain. To this end, we tested 20 adults for their abstract mismatch negativity (MMN) event-related potentials to two duration-related stress patterns: stress on the first syllable or note (long-short), and stress on the second syllable or note (short-long). A significant MMN was elicited for both speech and music except for the short-long speech stimulus. The long-short stimuli elicited larger MMN amplitudes for speech and music compared to short-long stimuli. An extra negativity-the late discriminative negativity (LDN)-was observed only for music. The larger MMN amplitude for long-short stimuli might be due to the familiarity of the stress pattern in speech and music. The presence of LDN for music may reflect greater long-term memory transfer for music stimuli.

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Title: Discrimination of stress in speech and music: a mismatch negativity (MMN) study
Authors: Varghese Peter (Author) - Macquarie University
Genevieve McArthur (Author) - Macquarie University
William F Thompson (Author) - Macquarie University
Publication details: Psychophysiology, Vol.49(12), pp.1590-1600
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01472.x
ISSN: 1540-5958
PMID: 23066846
Organisation Unit: School of Health - Psychology; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99534307002621
Output Type: Journal article

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