Fractionating auditory priors : A neural dissociation between active and passive experience of musical sounds
Kliuchko, M., Brattico, E., Gold, B. P., Tervaniemi, M., Bogert, B., Toiviainen, P., & Vuust, P. (2019). Fractionating auditory priors : A neural dissociation between active and passive experience of musical sounds. PLoS ONE, 14(5), Article e0216499. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216499
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Learning, attention and action play a crucial role in determining how stimulus predictions are
formed, stored, and updated. Years-long experience with the specific repertoires of sounds
of one or more musical styles is what characterizes professional musicians. Here we contrasted active experience with sounds, namely long-lasting motor practice, theoretical study
and engaged listening to the acoustic features characterizing a musical style of choice in
professional musicians with mainly passive experience of sounds in laypersons. We hypothesized that long-term active experience of sounds would influence the neural predictions of
the stylistic features in professional musicians in a distinct way from the mainly passive
experience of sounds in laypersons. Participants with different musical backgrounds were
recruited: professional jazz and classical musicians, amateur musicians and non-musicians.
They were presented with a musical multi-feature paradigm eliciting mismatch negativity
(MMN), a prediction error signal to changes in six sound features for only 12 minutes of
electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings. We
observed a generally larger MMN amplitudes–indicative of stronger automatic neural signals to violated priors–in jazz musicians (but not in classical musicians) as compared to
non-musicians and amateurs. The specific MMN enhancements were found for spectral features (timbre, pitch, slide) and sound intensity. In participants who were not musicians, the
higher preference for jazz music was associated with reduced MMN to pitch slide (a feature
common in jazz music style). Our results suggest that long-lasting, active experience of a
musical style is associated with accurate neural priors for the sound features of the preferred
style, in contrast to passive listening.
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