Activation in the Right Inferior Parietal Lobule Reflects the Representation of Musical Structure beyond Simple Pitch Discrimination.

Pitch discrimination tasks typically engage the superior temporal gyrus and the right inferior frontal gyrus. It is currently unclear whether these regions are equally involved in the processing of incongruous notes in melodies, which requires the representation of musical structure (tonality) in ad...

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Main Authors: Isabelle Royal, Dominique T Vuvan, Benjamin Rich Zendel, Nicolas Robitaille, Marc Schönwiesner, Isabelle Peretz
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
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Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155291&type=printable
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author Isabelle Royal
Dominique T Vuvan
Benjamin Rich Zendel
Nicolas Robitaille
Marc Schönwiesner
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description Pitch discrimination tasks typically engage the superior temporal gyrus and the right inferior frontal gyrus. It is currently unclear whether these regions are equally involved in the processing of incongruous notes in melodies, which requires the representation of musical structure (tonality) in addition to pitch discrimination. To this aim, 14 participants completed two tasks while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging, one in which they had to identify a pitch change in a series of non-melodic repeating tones and a second in which they had to identify an incongruous note in a tonal melody. In both tasks, the deviants activated the right superior temporal gyrus. A contrast between deviants in the melodic task and deviants in the non-melodic task (melodic > non-melodic) revealed additional activity in the right inferior parietal lobule. Activation in the inferior parietal lobule likely represents processes related to the maintenance of tonal pitch structure in working memory during pitch discrimination.
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spelling doaj-art-bddde6b975bf47c185201fc7e91b9b992025-08-20T02:15:41ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032016-01-01115e015529110.1371/journal.pone.0155291Activation in the Right Inferior Parietal Lobule Reflects the Representation of Musical Structure beyond Simple Pitch Discrimination.Isabelle RoyalDominique T VuvanBenjamin Rich ZendelNicolas RobitailleMarc SchönwiesnerIsabelle PeretzPitch discrimination tasks typically engage the superior temporal gyrus and the right inferior frontal gyrus. It is currently unclear whether these regions are equally involved in the processing of incongruous notes in melodies, which requires the representation of musical structure (tonality) in addition to pitch discrimination. To this aim, 14 participants completed two tasks while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging, one in which they had to identify a pitch change in a series of non-melodic repeating tones and a second in which they had to identify an incongruous note in a tonal melody. In both tasks, the deviants activated the right superior temporal gyrus. A contrast between deviants in the melodic task and deviants in the non-melodic task (melodic > non-melodic) revealed additional activity in the right inferior parietal lobule. Activation in the inferior parietal lobule likely represents processes related to the maintenance of tonal pitch structure in working memory during pitch discrimination.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155291&type=printable
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Nicolas Robitaille
Marc Schönwiesner
Isabelle Peretz
Activation in the Right Inferior Parietal Lobule Reflects the Representation of Musical Structure beyond Simple Pitch Discrimination.
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title Activation in the Right Inferior Parietal Lobule Reflects the Representation of Musical Structure beyond Simple Pitch Discrimination.
title_full Activation in the Right Inferior Parietal Lobule Reflects the Representation of Musical Structure beyond Simple Pitch Discrimination.
title_fullStr Activation in the Right Inferior Parietal Lobule Reflects the Representation of Musical Structure beyond Simple Pitch Discrimination.
title_full_unstemmed Activation in the Right Inferior Parietal Lobule Reflects the Representation of Musical Structure beyond Simple Pitch Discrimination.
title_short Activation in the Right Inferior Parietal Lobule Reflects the Representation of Musical Structure beyond Simple Pitch Discrimination.
title_sort activation in the right inferior parietal lobule reflects the representation of musical structure beyond simple pitch discrimination
url https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155291&type=printable
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