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@article{Caclin07:NeuralTimbre, abstract = {Timbre is a multidimensional perceptual attribute of complex tones that characterizes the identity of a sound source. Our study explores the representation in auditory sensory memory of three timbre dimensions (acoustically related to attack time, spectral centroid, and spectrum fine structure), using the mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the auditory event-related potential. MMN is elicited by a discriminable change in a sound sequence and reflects the detection of the discrepancy between the current stimulus and traces in auditory sensory memory. The stimuli used in the present study were carefully controlled synthetic tones. MMNs were recorded after changes along each of the three timbre dimensions and their combinations. Additivity of unidimensional MMNs and dipole modeling results suggest partially separate MMN generators for different timbre dimensions, reflecting their mainly separate processing in auditory sensory memory. The results expand to timbre dimensions a property of separation of the representation in sensory memory that has already been reported between basic perceptual attributes (pitch, loudness, duration, and location) of sound sources.}, address = {1Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (STMS-IRCAM-CNRS), Paris, France, 2INSERM U280, Lyon, France, 3Institut F\'{e}d\'{e}ratif des Neurosciences, Lyon, France, 4University of Lyon 1, France, 5University of Helsinki, Finland, 6Helsinki Brain Research Center, Finland, 7McGill University, Montr\'{e}al, Canada.}, author = {Caclin, Anne and Brattico, Elvira and Tervaniemi, Mari and N\"{a}\"{a}t\"{a}nen, Risto and Morlet, Dominique and Giard, Marie-H\'{e}l\`{e}ne H. and Mcadams, Stephen}, citeulike-article-id = {970331}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.12.1959}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17129184}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17129184}, doi = {10.1162/jocn.2006.18.12.1959}, issn = {0898-929X}, journal = {J Cogn Neurosci}, keywords = {auditory, erp, integral, similarity}, month = {November}, number = {12}, pages = {1959--1972}, posted-at = {2007-03-21 16:56:56}, priority = {4}, title = {Separate Neural Processing of Timbre Dimensions in Auditory Sensory Memory.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.12.1959}, volume = {18}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - Caclin07:NeuralTimbre L3 - citeulike-article-id:970331 N2 - Timbre is a multidimensional perceptual attribute of complex tones that characterizes the identity of a sound source. Our study explores the representation in auditory sensory memory of three timbre dimensions (acoustically related to attack time, spectral centroid, and spectrum fine structure), using the mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the auditory event-related potential. MMN is elicited by a discriminable change in a sound sequence and reflects the detection of the discrepancy between the current stimulus and traces in auditory sensory memory. The stimuli used in the present study were carefully controlled synthetic tones. MMNs were recorded after changes along each of the three timbre dimensions and their combinations. Additivity of unidimensional MMNs and dipole modeling results suggest partially separate MMN generators for different timbre dimensions, reflecting their mainly separate processing in auditory sensory memory. The results expand to timbre dimensions a property of separation of the representation in sensory memory that has already been reported between basic perceptual attributes (pitch, loudness, duration, and location) of sound sources. IS - 12 JF - J Cogn Neurosci SN - 0898-929X AD - 1Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (STMS-IRCAM-CNRS), Paris, France, 2INSERM U280, Lyon, France, 3Institut Fédératif des Neurosciences, Lyon, France, 4University of Lyon 1, France, 5University of Helsinki, Finland, 6Helsinki Brain Research Center, Finland, 7McGill University, Montréal, Canada. EP - 1972 TI - Separate Neural Processing of Timbre Dimensions in Auditory Sensory Memory. VL - 18 SP - 1959 KW - auditory KW - erp KW - integral KW - similarity AU - Caclin, Anne AU - Brattico, Elvira AU - Tervaniemi, Mari AU - Näätänen, Risto AU - Morlet, Dominique AU - Giard, Marie-Hélène AU - Mcadams, Stephen PY - 2006/11// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.12.1959 ER -