Rie Asano

University of Cologne, Musikwissenschaft, Faculty Member

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The Neural Basis of Tonal Processing in Music: An ALE Meta-Analysis

Music & Science

Music is used as an important medium for communication in human societies, often times to enhance... more Music is used as an important medium for communication in human societies, often times to enhance the emotional meaning of narrative scenarios and ritual events. Music has a number of domain-specific tonal devices for doing this, spanning from scale structure to harmonic progressions and beyond. In order to explore the neural basis of tonal processing in music, we carried out an activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis of 20 published functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of tonal cognition, with an emphasis on harmony processing. The most concordant areas of activation across these studies occurred at the junction of the inferior frontal gyrus, anterior insula, and orbitofrontal cortex in Brodmann areas 47 and 13 in the right hemisphere. This region is associated not only with emotion in general, but with the conveyance of affective meanings during communication processes, including speech prosody and music.

The evolution of hierarchical structure building capacity for language and music: a bottom-up perspective

Primates, 2021

A central property of human language is its hierarchical structure. Humans can flexibly combine e... more A central property of human language is its hierarchical structure. Humans can flexibly combine elements to build a hierarchical structure expressing rich semantics. A hierarchical structure is also considered as playing a key role in many other human cognitive domains. In music, auditory-motor events are combined into hierarchical pitch and/or rhythm structure expressing affect. How did such a hierarchical structure building capacity evolve? This paper investigates this question from a bottom-up perspective based on a set of action-related components as a shared basis underlying cognitive capacities of nonhuman primates and humans. Especially, I argue that the evolution of hierarchical structure building capacity for language and music is tractable for comparative evolutionary study once we focus on the gradual elaboration of shared brain architecture: the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits for hierarchical control of goal-directed action and the dorsal pathways for hie...

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