News Finding: Moreover, musicians much more accurately detected pitch distortions--as evidenced by corresponding cortical oscillations.
Paper Finding: A similar effect could be occurring in musicians where training manifests structural and functional changes, presumably, to optimize processing and production of musical stimuli.
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: This suggests a communication-throughcoherence mechanism in which relevant brain regions gain access to the stimulus by entraining to the parsing mechanism. A similar effect could be occurring in musicians where training manifests structural and functional changes, presumably, to optimize processing and production of musical stimuli. Further experiments will be required to dissociate between these hypotheses.