News Finding: Moreover, musicians much more accurately detected pitch distortions--as evidenced by corresponding cortical oscillations.
Paper Finding: 2 and 15), suggest a generalization: cortical low-frequency oscillations track auditory inputs, entraining to incoming acoustic events, thereby chunking the auditory signal into elementary units for further decoding.
News Context: This difference, the researchers say, may suggest that non-musicians are unable to process the music as a continuous melody rather than as individual notes. Moreover, musicians much more accurately detected pitch distortions--as evidenced by corresponding cortical oscillations. Brain rhythms, they add, therefore appear to play a role in parsing and grouping sound streams into "chunks" that are then analyzed as speech or music.
Paper Context: Such entrainment correlates with behavior in a distortion detection task. 2 and 15), suggest a generalization: cortical low-frequency oscillations track auditory inputs, entraining to incoming acoustic events, thereby chunking the auditory signal into elementary units for further decoding. In nonmusicians, we observed no tracking below 1 Hz (Fig.