title: Song Perception by Professional Singers and Actors: An MEG Study.
abstract: The cortical correlates of speech and music perception are essentially overlapping, and the specific effects of different types of training on these networks remain unknown. We compared two groups of vocally trained professionals for music and speech, singers and actors, using recited and sung rhyme sequences from German art songs with semantic and/ or prosodic/melodic violations (i.e. violations of pitch) of the last word, in order to measure the evoked activation in a magnetoencephalographic (MEG) experiment. MEG data confirmed the existence of intertwined networks for the sung and spoken modality in an early time window after word violation. In essence for this early response, higher activity was measured after melodic/prosodic than semantic violations in predominantly right temporal areas. For singers as well as for actors, modality-specific effects were evident in predominantly left-temporal lateralized activity after semantic expectancy violations in the spoken modality, and right-dominant temporal activity in response to melodic violations in the sung modality. As an indication of a special group-dependent audiation process, higher neuronal activity for singers appeared in a late time window in right temporal and left parietal areas, both after the recited and the sung sequences.
authors: Department of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
authors: Ken
authors: K
authors: Rosslau
authors: Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.|German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany.
authors: Sibylle C
authors: SC
authors: Herholz
authors: Department of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
authors: Arne
authors: A
authors: Knief
authors: Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.|Jean-Uhrmacher-Institute for Clinical ENT-Research, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
authors: Magdalene
authors: M
authors: Ortmann
authors: Department of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
authors: Dirk
authors: D
authors: Deuster
authors: Department of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
authors: Claus-Michael
authors: CM
authors: Schmidt
authors: Department of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
authors: Antoinetteam
authors: A
authors: Zehnhoff-Dinnesen
authors: Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
authors: Christo
authors: C
authors: Pantev
authors: Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.|Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Dobel
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D001519:Behavior; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D015225:Magnetoencephalography; D008297:Male; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009146:Music; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012660:Semantics; D063346:Singing / Q000502:physiology*; D013060:Speech; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology