![]() On the one hand, double dissociations of linguistic and musical processes, documented in neuropsychological case studies, often point to domain-specific and separate neural substrates for language and music, –. Strong arguments have been made for both the opposing frameworks of modularity versus shared resources underlying language and music cognition (see reviews – ). ![]() The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Gordon benefited from a Fellowship from the American Academy of University Women. ![]() Magne benefitted from a “Cognitive Science” Fellowship from the French Ministry of Research and R.L. Astésano were supported by the HFSP grant C. Besson and was conducted at the Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée, while R.L. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.įunding: This research was supported by a grant from the Human Frontier Science Program “An interdisciplinary approach to the problem of language and music specificity” (HFSP#RGP0053) to M. Received: AugAccepted: FebruPublished: March 31, 2010Ĭopyright: © 2010 Gordon et al. PLoS ONE 5(3):Įditor: Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, University of Barcelona, Spain Implications of the interactions between words and melody are discussed in light of evidence for shared neural processing resources between the phonological/semantic aspects of language and the melodic/harmonic aspects of music.Ĭitation: Gordon RL, Schön D, Magne C, Astésano C, Besson M (2010) Words and Melody Are Intertwined in Perception of Sung Words: EEG and Behavioral Evidence. The finding that the N400 effect, a well-established marker of semantic processing, was modulated by musical melody in song suggests that variations in musical features affect word processing in sung language. Finally, ERP and behavioral data converged in showing interactions between the linguistic and melodic dimensions of sung words. Most interestingly, different melodies (sung with the same word) elicited an N400 component followed by a late positive component. In both attentional tasks, different word targets elicited an N400 component, as predicted based on previous results. Participants were asked to attend to either the words or the melody, and to perform a same/different task. ![]() Event-Related brain Potentials (ERPs) and behavioral data were recorded while non-musicians listened to pairs of sung words (prime and target) presented in four experimental conditions: same word, same melody same word, different melody different word, same melody different word, different melody. The present study was designed to determine whether words and melodies in song are processed interactively or independently, and to examine the influence of attention on the processing of words and melodies in song. Language and music, two of the most unique human cognitive abilities, are combined in song, rendering it an ecological model for comparing speech and music cognition. ![]()
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