Journal article
The Processing of Temporal Pitch and Melody Information in Auditory Cortex
Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.), Vol.36(4), pp.767-776
11/14/2002
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(02)01060-7
PMID: 12441063
Abstract
An fMRI experiment was performed to identify the main stages of melody processing in the auditory pathway. Spectrally matched sounds that produce no pitch, fixed pitch, or melody were all found to activate Heschl's gyrus (HG) and planum temporale (PT). Within this region, sounds with pitch produced more activation than those without pitch only in the lateral half of HG. When the pitch was varied to produce a melody, there was activation in regions beyond HG and PT, specifically in the superior temporal gyrus (STG) and planum polare (PP). The results support the view that there is hierarchy of pitch processing in which the center of activity moves anterolaterally away from primary auditory cortex as the processing of melodic sounds proceeds.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Processing of Temporal Pitch and Melody Information in Auditory Cortex
- Creators
- Roy D Patterson - University of CambridgeStefan Uppenkamp - University of CambridgeIngrid S Johnsrude - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitTimothy D Griffiths - Newcastle University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.), Vol.36(4), pp.767-776
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0896-6273(02)01060-7
- PMID
- 12441063
- ISSN
- 0896-6273
- eISSN
- 1097-4199
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/14/2002
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984632143602771
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