Event Abstract Back to Event Brain responses to out-of-key modification in familiar melody in musician and non-musician children Kaisu Heinänen1*, Leena Ervast1, Swantje Zachau1 and Kalervo Suominen2 1 University of Oulu, Finland 2 University of Turku, Finland Semantic memory for music gives us the possibility to identify familiar melodies. On the grounds of expectation of the melody sequence, melody deviants can be discriminated (Yasui et al., 2009). When studying melody deviants, different components of event related potentials (ERPs) have been found: mismatch negativity (MMN) for various music deviants (frequency, rule, melody) (Tervaniemi & Brattico, 2004), early negative component for weak incongruities in melody endings in musician children (Magne et al., 2006) and early anterior negativity in out-of-key violations in both familiar and unfamiliar melodies (Miranda & Ullman, 2007). The aim of the study is to present how music-related auditory processing is effected by violin playing during the first two years of musical training. Follow-up study of 10 children (age 4 to 5 yrs) starting the violin lessons with Suzuki Method and 8 age-matched controls without music education is carried out by assessing music-related auditory processing with ERPs. ERP-recordings based on oddball paradigm. Stimulus was the violin played 8-note-melody pattern (2800 ms) from Perpetual Motion. Out-of-key deviance was played by lowering the 5th note by a quarter tone. The melody was familiar to musician children. The focus of the study was in different ERP-components and their latencies, amplitudes and topographies. Out-of-key modification in familiar melody elicits cognitive ERP components in children. In addition to frequency evoked MMN component, the out-of-key deviance elicited early negative component that was stronger in musician than in non-musician children. Our results show that musical training has effect on auditory processing and discrimination accuracy, and that these changes can be established with ERPs. Keywords: EEG, memory and learning, Musician Conference: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI), Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 25 Sep - 29 Sep, 2011. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Poster Sessions: Neural Bases of Memory and Learning Citation: Heinänen K, Ervast L, Zachau S and Suominen K (2011). Brain responses to out-of-key modification in familiar melody in musician and non-musician children. Conference Abstract: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI). doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2011.207.00222 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 21 Nov 2011; Published Online: 28 Nov 2011. * Correspondence: Dr. Kaisu Heinänen, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, kaisu.heinanen@oulu.fi Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Kaisu Heinänen Leena Ervast Swantje Zachau Kalervo Suominen Google Kaisu Heinänen Leena Ervast Swantje Zachau Kalervo Suominen Google Scholar Kaisu Heinänen Leena Ervast Swantje Zachau Kalervo Suominen PubMed Kaisu Heinänen Leena Ervast Swantje Zachau Kalervo Suominen Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.