Cognitive processes involved in sound perception in context



Team leader: Barbara Tillmann
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Barbara Tillmann
Cognition Auditive et Psychoacoustique
UMR 5020
Neurosciences et Systèmes Sensoriels
CNRS - Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1
50 Av. Tony Garnier
69366 Lyon Cedex 07
France
Tel: 33 (0)4 37 28 74 89
Fax: 33 (0)4 37 28 76 01
Email: btillmann--AT--olfac.univ-lyon1.fr
PhD students: Lisianne Hoch Curriculum vitae

Frédéric Marmel Curriculum vitae
Postdoc - ATER: Katrin Schulze


Master student: Lauranne Przybylski

 
Previous members: Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat
Nicolas Escoffier
Géraldine Lebrun-Guillaud

Keywords:
auditory cognition, music perception, priming paradigm, expertise, context effects, implicit learning

The goal of our research is to understand 1) how implicit knowledge about regularities between auditory, non-verbal events is acquired, and 2) how a cognitive representation of these regularities influences the processing of auditory events in context. Our interests focus on the implicit processes involved in acquisition and perception: How do listeners acquire knowledge just by mere exposure and how does this implicitly acquired knowledge allow listeners to extract information, create mental representations and develop expectations?

Music is an example of a complex acoustic, nonverbal structure. Studying music processing allows us to investigate the perception of non-verbal structures in our environment and gives insight into a variety of cognitive processes (e.g., memory, learning, knowledge, attention).

Music perception requires structural integration of musical events over time. Most of our research has investigated the perception of musical structures and relations as well as the role of listeners’ musical knowledge in this processing. The findings reveal sophisticated tonal knowledge in nonmusician listeners, who can be referred to as “implicit experts of music perception”. Nonmusician listeners are sensitive to fine manipulations of musical structures. For example, the musical priming paradigm, which is similar to priming paradigms used in psycholinguistics (i.e., semantic, syntactic, associative), allows us to study the influence of global and local musical relations on the processing of a musical event. A context (e.g., the beginning of a musical sequence or a sentence) activates listeners’ knowledge and allows developing expectations about future events, which will either facilitate or hinder the processing of the incoming sound signal.

Tonal acculturation is one example of the strength of implicit learning processes applied to ecological material. Another example is language acquisition when only based on listening to speech. To specify characteristics and limits of implicit learning in the auditory modality, we are investigating this cognitive capacity with artificial material in the laboratory.

Three approaches of cognitive sciences are combined: The behavioral approach studies the influence of context on the processing of sound events (e.g., priming paradigms, recognition tasks, psychoacoustic methods). It is applied to healthy listeners as well as to patients with various disorders. The computational approach simulates the acquisition of knowledge through mere exposure to the auditory material and the activation of this knowledge by a given context. The neurophysiological approach (functional MRI, EEG) investigates the neural correlates that are involved in the processing of non-verbal and verbal sounds.  

  Publications

Tillmann, B. & Bigand, E. (1996). Does formal structure influence perceived musical expressivity?, Psychology of Music, 24, 3-17.

Tillmann, B., Bigand, E., & Madurell, F. (1998). Influence of global and local structures on the solution of musical puzzles, Psychological Research, 61, 157-174.

Tillmann, B. & Bigand, E. (1998). Influence of global structure on musical target detection and recognition, International Journal of Psychology, 33, 107-122.

Tillmann, B., Bigand, E., & Pineau, M. (1998). Effects of global and local contexts on harmonic expectancy, Music Perception, 16, 99-118.

Bigand, E., Madurell, F., Tillmann, B., & Pineau, M. (1999). Effect of global structure and temporal organization on chord progression, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 184-197.

Tillmann, B., Bharucha, J. J., & Bigand, E. (2000). Implicit learning of music: A Self-Organizing Approach. Psychological Review, 107, 885-913.

Bigand, E., Tillmann, B., Poulin, B., & D'Adamo, D. A. (2001). The effect of harmonic context on phoneme monitoring in vocal music. Cognition, 81, B11-B20.

Tillmann, B. & Bigand, E. (2001). Global relatedness effect in normal and scrambled chord sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 1185-1196.

Dowling, W. J., Tillmann, B., & Ayers, D. (2002). Memory and the experience of hearing music. Music Perception, 19, 249-276

Tillmann, B., & Bharucha, J. J. (2002). Effect of harmonic relatedness on the detection of temporal asynchronies. Perception & Psychophysics,64, 640-649.

Janata, P., Tillmann, B., & Bharucha, J. J. (2002) Listening to polyphonic music recruits domain-general attention and working memory circuits. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2, 121-140.

Janata, P., Birk, J., Van Horn, J. D., Leman, M. Tillmann, B. & Bharucha, J. J. (2002) The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music. Science, 298, 2167-2170.

Bigand, E., Poulain, B., Tillmann, B., & D’Adamo, D. (2003) Cognitive versus sensory components in harmonic priming effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 29 (1), 159-171

Tillmann, B., Janata, P., & Bharucha, J.J. (2003) Activation of the inferior frontal cortex in musical priming. Cognitive Brain Research, 16 (2), 145-161.

Tillmann, B., Janata, P., Birk, J. & Bharucha, J.J. (2003) The costs and benefits of tonal centers for chord processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29 (2), 470-482

Janata, P., Birk, J., Tillmann, B. & Bharucha, J. J. (2003) Online Detection of Tonal Pop-Out in Modulating Contexts. Music Perception, 20 (3), 283-306.

Tillmann, B. & McAdams, S. (2004) Implicit Learning of musical timbre sequences : statistical regularities confronted with acoustical (dis)similarities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 30(5),1131-1142.

Bigand, E., Tillmann, B., Poulin-Charronnat, B. & Manderlier, D. (2005) Repetition priming : Is music special? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 1347-1375.

Tillmann, B., Bigand, E, Escoffier, N., & Lalitte, P. (2006) Influence of harmonic context on musical timbre processing. European Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 343–358.

Tillmann, B. & Lebrun-Guillaud, G. (2006) Influence of tonal and temporal expectations on chord processing and on completion judgments of chord sequences. Psychological Research, 70, 345-358.

Tillmann, B., Koelsch, S., Escoffier, N., Bigand, E., Lalitte, P., Friederici, A.D. & vonCramon, D.Y. (2006) Cognitive priming in sung and instrumental music: Activation of inferior frontal cortex. NeuroImage, 31, 1771-1782.

Bigand, E, Tillmann, B. & Poulin-Charronnat, B. (2006) A module for syntactic processing in music?, Trends in Cognitive Science, 10, 195-196.

Lebrun-Guillaud, G. & Tillmann, B. Integration of pitch and time in the memory of chord sequences. Current Psychology of Cognition. In press.

Tillmann, B. & Dowling, W.J. (2007). Memory decreases for prose, but not for poetry. Memory & Cognition, 35, 628-639.

Plailly, J., Tillmann, B. & Royet, J.-P. (2007) The feeling of familiarity of music and odors: The same neural signature? Cerebral Cortex. 17 (11), 2650-2658.

Tillmann, B., Peretz, I., Bigand, E. & Gosselin, N. (2007). Harmonic priming in an amusic patient: The power of implicit tasks. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24, 603-622.

Lebrun-Guillaud, G. & Tillmann, B. (2007). Influence of a tone’s tonal function on temporal change detection. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 1450-1459.

Tillmann, B., Justus, T. & Bigand, E. (2008). Cerebellar patients demonstrate preserved implicit knowledge of association strengths in musical sequences. Brain & Cognition, 66, 161-167.

Lebrun-Guillaud, G., Tillmann, B.& Justus, T. (2008). Perception of tonal and temporal structures in chord sequences by patients with cerebellar damage. Music Perception, 25, 271–283.
Peretz, I., Gosselin, N., Tillmann, B., Cuddy, L., Trimmer, C., Paquette, S. & Bochard, B. (2008). Online identification of congential amusia, Music Perception. 25, 331–343.

Escoffier, N. & Tillmann, B. (2008). The tonal function of a task-irrelevant chord modulates speed of visual processing. Cognition. 107, 1070-1083

Camos, V. & Tillmann, B. (2008). Enumeration of Sequentially Presented Auditory and Visual Stimuli. Cognition. 107, 1135–1143

Tillmann, B., Janata, P., Birk, J. & Bharucha, J.J. (2008). Tonal centers and expectancy: facilitation or inhibition of chords at the top of the harmonic hierarchy? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance. 34, 1031-1043. 

Marmel, F., Tillmann, B. & Dowling, W.J. (2008). Tonal expectations influence pitch perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 841-852.

Marmel, F. & Tillmann, B. (2009). Tonal priming beyond tonics. Music Perception, 26, 211-221.

Opacic T, Stevens K, Tillmann B. (2009) Unspoken Knowledge: Implicit Learning of Structured Human Dance Movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learming, Memory & Cognition, 35, 1570-7.

Tillmann, B., Schulze, K. & Foxton, J. (2009). Congenital amusia: A short-term memory deficit for nonverbal, but not verbal sounds. Brain & Cognition, 71, 259-264.

Daltrozzo, J., Tillmann, B. Platel, H. & Schoen, D. (2009). Temporal aspects of the feeling of familiarity for music and the emergence of conceptual processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 21, 1882-1892

Perruchet, P. & Tillmann, B. (2010). Exploiting multiple sources of information in learning an artificial language: Human data and modelling. Cognitive Science, 34, 255–285 

Nguyen S, Tillmann B, Gosselin N, Peretz I. (2009) Tonal Language Processing in Congenital Amusia. Ann N Y Acad Sci., 1169, 490-493.

Peretz I, Gosselin N, Belin P, Zatorre R, Plailly J Tillmann B. (2009) Musical lexical networks: The cortical organization of music recognition. Ann N Y Acad Sci., 1169, 256-265.

Tillmann B. (2009) Part IV Introduction: Musical memory: Music is memory. Ann N Y Acad Sci., 1169, 214-215.

Tillmann, B. & Poulin-Charronnat, B. (in press) Auditory expectations for newly acquired structures. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 2010.

Filipic, S., Tillmann, B. & Bigand, E., (in press). Judging familiarity and emotion from very brief musical excerpts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2010

Marmel F, Tillmann B, Delbé C. (in press) Priming in melody perception: tracking down the strength of cognitive expectations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 2010.

Tillmann, B., Jolicœur, P., Rossetti, Y., Gosselin, N., Ishihara, M., Bertrand, O. & Peretz, I. The Amusic Brain: Lost in Music, But Not in Space. PLosOne, 2010

Tillmann, B., Jolicœur, P., Ishihara, M., Gosselin, N., Bertrand, O.,Rossetti, Y., & Peretz, I. (2010). The Amusic Brain: Lost in Music, But
Not in Space. PLosOne. 5 (4), e10173. 2010

Hoch, L. & Tillmann, B. Laterality effects for musical structure processing: a dichotic listening study. Neuropsychology.

Devergie, A., Grimault, N., Tillmann, B. & Berthomier, F. Effect of Rhythmic Attention on the Segregation of Interleaved Melodies, JASA
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  Book chapter and other

Tillmann, B., Bharucha, J. J., & Bigand, E. (2001). Implicit Learning of Regularities in Western Tonal Music by Self-Organization (pp. 175-184). Dans: R. French & J. Sougné (Eds.) Perspectives in Neural Computing series. Proceedings of the Sixth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop: Evolution, Learning, and Development. London: Springer.

Tillmann, B. & Bigand, E. (2002). A comparative review of priming effects in language and music (pp. 231-240), P. McKevitt, S. O’Nuallain & C. Mulvihill (Eds.) Language, Vision and Music, John Benjamins : Amsterdam, Philadelphia.

Tillmann, B., Bharucha, J.J. & Bigand, E. (2003). Learning and Perceiving Musical Structures: Further Insights from Artificial Neural Networks. (pp. 109-123) R. Zatorre & I. Peretz (Eds.) The Biological Foundations of Music. Oxford University Press.

Tillmann, B., (2005) Music Cognition (pp. 795-801). Dans: Encyclopedia of Social Measurement Volume 2, K. Kempf-Leonard (Editeur), Elsevier : Academic Press.

Bigand, E. & Tillmann, B., (2005) Effect of Context on the Perception of Pitch Structures (pp. 306-351). In Plack, C & Oxenham, A. (Eds) Pitch Perception, Springer Verlag, SHAR.

Tillmann, B. (2005). Implicit investigations of tonal knowledge in nonmusician listeners (pp. 100-110). In : The Neurosciences and Music II: From Perception to Performance, Volume 1060 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, edited by Giuliano Avanzini, Luisa Lopez, Stefan Koelsch, and Maria Majno.

Tillmann, B., Madurell, F., Lalitte, P. & Bigand, E. (2005). Apprendre la musique: Perspectives sur l’apprentissage implicite de la musique et implications pédagogiques. Revue Française de Pédagogie, 152, 63-77.

Tillmann, B. & Poulin-Charronnat, B. (2008). Étudier les attentes musicales de l’auditeur non-musicien : le paradigme d’amorçage musical Intellectica, 48/49, 27-35.

Bigand E., Lalitte P., Tillmann, B. (2008). Learning Music, in Pietro Polotti & Davide Rocchesso (Eds.), Sound to Sense, Sense to Sound: A State of the Art in Sound and Music Computing, Berlin, Logos  Verlag,  p. 47-81.

Tillmann, B. (2008). Music cognition: Learning, Perception, Expectations. (pp.11-33). In : R. Kronland-Martinet, S. Ystad & K. Jensen (Eds.):     Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Sense of Sounds - CMMR 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4969 ; Springer : Berlin, Heidelberg. 

Tillmann, B. (2008). La musique, un langage universel?, Pour la Science, 373, Novembre, 124-131.

Tillmann, B. (2008) Bookreview of “Music, Language and the Brain” by Aniruddh D. Patel. Psychomusicology (in press).

Tillmann, B., Hoch, L. & Marmel, F. (in press). Influence du contexte sur le traitement en musique et en langage. In: Morais, J. & Kolinsky, R. (Eds.) Musique, Langage, Emotion, Proceedings du XXX° Symposium of APSLF, Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

Tillmann, B., Peretz, I. & Samson, S. (in press). Neurocognitive Approaches to Memory in Music: Music is Memory. In: S. Nalbatian, P. Matthews & J. L. McClelland (Eds.), The Memory Process: Neuroscientific and Humanistic Perspective, MIT press.

  Book

Pineau, M., & Tillmann, B. (2001). Percevoir la musique: Une activité cognitive. L'Harmattan: Paris. 

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