Functional Plasticity Coupled With Structural Predispositions in Auditory Cortex Shape Successful Music Category Learning.

ABSTRACT: Categorizing sounds into meaningful groups helps listeners more efficiently process the auditory scene and is a foundational skill for speech perception and language development. Yet, how auditory categories develop in the brain through learning, particularly for non-speech sounds (e.g., music), is not well understood. Here, we asked musically naïve listeners to complete a brief (∼20 min) training session where they learned to identify sounds from a musical interval continuum (minor-major 3rds). We used multichannel EEG to track behaviorally relevant neuroplastic changes in the auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) pre- to post-training. To rule out mere exposure-induced changes, neural effects were evaluated against a control group of 14 non-musicians who did not undergo training. We a

SUBMITTER: Mankel K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9274125 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature