Cognição, emoção e expertise musical

Musical Expertise and Statistical Learning of Musical and Linguistic Structures

Adults and infants can use the statistical properties of syllable sequences to extract words from continuous speech. Here we present a review of a series of electrophysiological studies investigating (1) Speech segmentation resulting from exposure to spoken and sung sequences (2) The extraction of linguistic versus musical information from a sung sequence (3) Differences between musicians and n...

Musical Expertise and Melodic Structure in Memory for Musical Notation

Musical expertise and foreign speech perception

The aim of this experiment was to investigate the influence of musical expertise on the automatic perception of foreign syllables and harmonic sounds. Participants were Cuban students with high level of expertise in music or in visual arts and with the same level of general education and socio-economic background. We used a multi-feature Mismatch Negativity (MMN) design with sequences of either...

Musical Expertise and Second Language Learning

Increasing evidence suggests that musical expertise influences brain organization and brain functions. Moreover, results at the behavioral and neurophysiological levels reveal that musical expertise positively influences several aspects of speech processing, from auditory perception to speech production. In this review, we focus on the main results of the literature that led to the idea that mu...

Musical sight-reading expertise: cross-modality investigations

It is often said that experienced musicians are capable of hearing what they read from the score and vice versa. This suggests that they are able to process and to integrate multimodal information. Does the expertise in music rely on an efficient cross-modal integration? This paper investigates this issue with 2 experiments. In the first one, 30 expert and 31 non expert musicians were required ...