Barbara Tillmann
Perception of Auditory Events
in Temporal Contexts
Keywords:
auditory cognition, music perception,
priming paradigm, expertise,
context effects, implicit learning
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My research is based on a cognitive approach of auditory perception. Its overall aim is 1) to understand how implicit knowledge of regularities among auditory, non-verbal events is acquired, and 2) to study how a cognitive representation of these regularities influences the processing of auditory events in context. 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). 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 (notably by using functional MRI) analyzes the functional organization of cerebral structures that are involved in the processing of non-verbal and verbal sounds.
To date, my work has mainly focused on one particular sound structure: Western tonal music. Research in music cognition allows us to investigate the perception of non-verbal structures in our environment and to further understand the functioning of our cognitive system. Numerous behavioral and neurophysiological research has provided evidence that even nonmusician listeners are sensitive to fine manipulations of musical structures. For example, a harmonic priming paradigm, which is similar to semantic priming paradigms used in psycholinguistics, allows us to study the influence of global and local harmonic relations on the processing of a musical event.
My research is currently using theoretical and methodological backgrounds developed for music cognition with the goal to investigate other domains of auditory cognition, particularly the processing of musical timbres and environmental sounds.
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 n, 30(5),1131-1142
Bigand, E., Tillmann, B., Poulin-Charronnat, B. & Manderlier, D. Repetition priming : Is music special ? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, in press
Tillmann, B., Bharucha, J.J. & Bigand, E. (in press). Music perception from a connectionist perspective. R. Zatorre & I. Peretz (Eds.) The Biological Foundations of Music. Oxford University Press
Tillmann, B. & Bigand, E. (in press). A comparative review of priming effects in language and music. Dans: P. McKevitt (Ed.) Language, vision & music -Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing CSNLP-8. John Benjamins.
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.
Pineau, M., & Tillmann, B. (2001). Perception des structures musicales. L'Harmattan: Paris.