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Neural Substrates for Semantic Memory of Familiar Songs: Is There an Interface between Lyrics and Melodies?

Findings on song perception and song production have increasingly suggested that common but partially distinct neural networks exist for processing lyrics and melody. However, the neural substrates of song recognition remain to be investigated. The purpose of this study was to examine the neural sub...

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Autores principales: Saito, Yoko, Ishii, Kenji, Sakuma, Naoko, Kawasaki, Keiichi, Oda, Keiichi, Mizusawa, Hidehiro
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3460812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23029492
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046354
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author Saito, Yoko
Ishii, Kenji
Sakuma, Naoko
Kawasaki, Keiichi
Oda, Keiichi
Mizusawa, Hidehiro
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Ishii, Kenji
Sakuma, Naoko
Kawasaki, Keiichi
Oda, Keiichi
Mizusawa, Hidehiro
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description Findings on song perception and song production have increasingly suggested that common but partially distinct neural networks exist for processing lyrics and melody. However, the neural substrates of song recognition remain to be investigated. The purpose of this study was to examine the neural substrates involved in the accessing “song lexicon” as corresponding to a representational system that might provide links between the musical and phonological lexicons using positron emission tomography (PET). We exposed participants to auditory stimuli consisting of familiar and unfamiliar songs presented in three ways: sung lyrics (song), sung lyrics on a single pitch (lyrics), and the sung syllable ‘la’ on original pitches (melody). The auditory stimuli were designed to have equivalent familiarity to participants, and they were recorded at exactly the same tempo. Eleven right-handed nonmusicians participated in four conditions: three familiarity decision tasks using song, lyrics, and melody and a sound type decision task (control) that was designed to engage perceptual and prelexical processing but not lexical processing. The contrasts (familiarity decision tasks versus control) showed no common areas of activation between lyrics and melody. This result indicates that essentially separate neural networks exist in semantic memory for the verbal and melodic processing of familiar songs. Verbal lexical processing recruited the left fusiform gyrus and the left inferior occipital gyrus, whereas melodic lexical processing engaged the right middle temporal sulcus and the bilateral temporo-occipital cortices. Moreover, we found that song specifically activated the left posterior inferior temporal cortex, which may serve as an interface between verbal and musical representations in order to facilitate song recognition.
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spelling pubmed-34608122012-10-01 Neural Substrates for Semantic Memory of Familiar Songs: Is There an Interface between Lyrics and Melodies? Saito, Yoko Ishii, Kenji Sakuma, Naoko Kawasaki, Keiichi Oda, Keiichi Mizusawa, Hidehiro PLoS One Research Article Findings on song perception and song production have increasingly suggested that common but partially distinct neural networks exist for processing lyrics and melody. However, the neural substrates of song recognition remain to be investigated. The purpose of this study was to examine the neural substrates involved in the accessing “song lexicon” as corresponding to a representational system that might provide links between the musical and phonological lexicons using positron emission tomography (PET). We exposed participants to auditory stimuli consisting of familiar and unfamiliar songs presented in three ways: sung lyrics (song), sung lyrics on a single pitch (lyrics), and the sung syllable ‘la’ on original pitches (melody). The auditory stimuli were designed to have equivalent familiarity to participants, and they were recorded at exactly the same tempo. Eleven right-handed nonmusicians participated in four conditions: three familiarity decision tasks using song, lyrics, and melody and a sound type decision task (control) that was designed to engage perceptual and prelexical processing but not lexical processing. The contrasts (familiarity decision tasks versus control) showed no common areas of activation between lyrics and melody. This result indicates that essentially separate neural networks exist in semantic memory for the verbal and melodic processing of familiar songs. Verbal lexical processing recruited the left fusiform gyrus and the left inferior occipital gyrus, whereas melodic lexical processing engaged the right middle temporal sulcus and the bilateral temporo-occipital cortices. Moreover, we found that song specifically activated the left posterior inferior temporal cortex, which may serve as an interface between verbal and musical representations in order to facilitate song recognition. Public Library of Science 2012-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3460812/ /pubmed/23029492 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046354 Text en © 2012 Saito et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Neural Substrates for Semantic Memory of Familiar Songs: Is There an Interface between Lyrics and Melodies?
title Neural Substrates for Semantic Memory of Familiar Songs: Is There an Interface between Lyrics and Melodies?
title_full Neural Substrates for Semantic Memory of Familiar Songs: Is There an Interface between Lyrics and Melodies?
title_fullStr Neural Substrates for Semantic Memory of Familiar Songs: Is There an Interface between Lyrics and Melodies?
title_full_unstemmed Neural Substrates for Semantic Memory of Familiar Songs: Is There an Interface between Lyrics and Melodies?
title_short Neural Substrates for Semantic Memory of Familiar Songs: Is There an Interface between Lyrics and Melodies?
title_sort neural substrates for semantic memory of familiar songs: is there an interface between lyrics and melodies?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3460812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23029492
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046354
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