Automatic and controlled processing of melodic contour and interval information measured by electrical brain activity. Trainor, L. J, McDonald, K. L, & Alain, C. J Cogn Neurosci, 14(3):430-42, 2002.
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Most work on how pitch is encoded in the auditory cortex has focused on tonotopic (absolute) pitch maps. However, melodic information is thought to be encoded in the brain in two different "relative pitch" forms, a domain-general contour code (up/down pattern of pitch changes) and a music-specific interval code (exact pitch distances between notes). Event-related potentials were analyzed in nonmusicians from both passive and active oddball tasks where either the contour or the interval of melody-final notes was occasionally altered. The occasional deviant notes generated a right frontal positivity peaking around 350 msec and a central parietal P3b peaking around 580 msec that were present only when participants focused their attention on the auditory stimuli. Both types of melodic information were encoded automatically in the absence of absolute pitch cues, as indexed by a mismatch negativity wave recorded during the passive conditions. The results indicate that even in the absence of musical training, the brain is set up to automatically encode music-specific melodic information, even when absolute pitch information is not available.
@Article{Trainor2002,
  author   = {Laurel J Trainor and Kelly L McDonald and Claude Alain},
  journal  = {J Cogn Neurosci},
  title    = {Automatic and controlled processing of melodic contour and interval information measured by electrical brain activity.},
  year     = {2002},
  number   = {3},
  pages    = {430-42},
  volume   = {14},
  abstract = {Most work on how pitch is encoded in the auditory cortex has focused
	on tonotopic (absolute) pitch maps. However, melodic information
	is thought to be encoded in the brain in two different "relative
	pitch" forms, a domain-general contour code (up/down pattern of pitch
	changes) and a music-specific interval code (exact pitch distances
	between notes). Event-related potentials were analyzed in nonmusicians
	from both passive and active oddball tasks where either the contour
	or the interval of melody-final notes was occasionally altered. The
	occasional deviant notes generated a right frontal positivity peaking
	around 350 msec and a central parietal P3b peaking around 580 msec
	that were present only when participants focused their attention
	on the auditory stimuli. Both types of melodic information were encoded
	automatically in the absence of absolute pitch cues, as indexed by
	a mismatch negativity wave recorded during the passive conditions.
	The results indicate that even in the absence of musical training,
	the brain is set up to automatically encode music-specific melodic
	information, even when absolute pitch information is not available.},
  doi      = {10.1162/089892902317361949},
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