Isabelle Peretz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1379173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabelle Peretz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Peretz |
| SIGNATURE | PERETZ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3572-0262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Vocal Advantage in Memory for Melodies is Based on Contour
Recognition memory is better for vocal melodies than instrumental melodies. Here we examine whether this vocal advantage extends to recall. Thirty-one violinists learned four melodies (28 notes, 16 s), two produced by voice and two by violin. Their task was to listen to each melody and then immediately sing (for vocal stimuli) or play back on violin (for violin stimuli) the melody. Recall of the melody was tested in ten consecutive trials. After …
Establishing the Reliability and Validity of Web-based Singing Research
In this study, the robustness of an online tool for objectively assessing singing ability was examined by: (1) determining the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the tool; (2) comparing the task performance of web-based participants (n = 285) with a group (n = 52) completing the tool in a controlled laboratory setting, and then determining the convergent validity between settings, and (3) comparing participants’ task performance …
The singing voice is special
Cross-Cultural Work in Music Cognition
Many foundational questions in the psychology of music require cross-cultural approaches, yet the vast majority of work in the field to date has been conducted with Western participants and Western music. For cross-cultural research to thrive, it will require collaboration between people from different disciplinary backgrounds, as well as strategies for overcoming differences in assumptions, methods, and terminology. This position paper surveys t…
Comorbidity and cognitive overlap between developmental dyslexia and congenital amusia
This study investigated whether there is a co-occurrence between developmental dyslexia and congenital amusia in adults. First, a database of online musical tests on 18,000 participants was analysed. Self-reported dyslexic participants performed significantly lower on melodic skills than matched controls, suggesting a possible link between reading and musical disorders. In order to test this relationship more directly, we evaluated 20 participant…
Singing Delays the Onset of Infant Distress
Much is known about the efficacy of infant‐directed ( ID ) speech and singing for capturing attention, but little is known about their role in regulating affect. In Experiment 1, infants 7–10 months of age listened to scripted recordings of ID speech, adult‐directed speech, or singing in an unfamiliar language (Turkish) until they met a criterion of distress based on negative facial expression. They listened to singing for roughly twice as long a…
Musical structural determinants of emotional judgments in dementia of the Alzheimer type
People with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) may well be emotionally soothed by listening to music. However, very few systematic studies have been conducted to support the anecdotal evidence. DAT does damage certain cerebral structures that subsume emotional processing, and some studies have demonstrated deficits affecting emotional judgments of facial expression and prosody in DAT. Accordingly, this study addressed the question of whether DA…
Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music
Neuroscience cognitive de la musique
Pr Isabelle Peretz © P. Imbert, Collège de France La musique a existé dans toutes les formes de cultures depuis la préhistoire jusqu’aux temps présents. Mais pourquoi ? Pourquoi sommes-nous une espèce musicale ? Comment notre cerveau gère-t-il cette capacité musicale et quelles en sont les composantes essentielles ? Et comment ce fonctionnement cérébral interagit-t-il avec les autres capacités humaines telles que le langage ? Telles sont les ques…
The Sound of Mute Vowels in Auditory Word-Stem Completion
Music Agnosias
Neuropsychological findings suggest that music is a special faculty (e.g., with respect to language) by being carried out by dedicated processes that are subserved by distinct anatomical brain structures. In the present paper, we review the evidence provided by brain-damaged patients who suffer from music agnosia, a selective impairment in music recognition. Three cases of music agnosia (C.N., G.L., and I.R.) without concomitant disorders and pre…
Dichotic perception and laterality in neonates
Music and modularity
It is argued that the current modular conception of the human mind has important implications for the status of music processing in the architecture of the cognitive system. This conceptualization led us to treat several issues that have been neglected in the cognitive study of music. The major issue concerns the importance of specifying both models and experimental tasks in terms of stages in information processing. This approach is advocated as…
Music and modularity
It is argued that the current modular conception of the human mind has important implications for the status of music processing in the architecture of the cognitive system. This conceptualization led us to treat several issues that have been neglected in the cognitive study of music. The major issue concerns the importance of specifying both models and experimental tasks in terms of stages in information processing. This approach is advocated as…
Musical structural determinants of emotional judgments in dementia of the Alzheimer type
People with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) may well be emotionally soothed by listening to music. However, very few systematic studies have been conducted to support the anecdotal evidence. DAT does damage certain cerebral structures that subsume emotional processing, and some studies have demonstrated deficits affecting emotional judgments of facial expression and prosody in DAT. Accordingly, this study addressed the question of whether DA…
Dichotic perception and laterality in neonates
Music and modularity
It is argued that the current modular conception of the human mind has important implications for the status of music processing in the architecture of the cognitive system. This conceptualization led us to treat several issues that have been neglected in the cognitive study of music. The major issue concerns the importance of specifying both models and experimental tasks in terms of stages in information processing. This approach is advocated as…
Music Agnosias
Neuropsychological findings suggest that music is a special faculty (e.g., with respect to language) by being carried out by dedicated processes that are subserved by distinct anatomical brain structures. In the present paper, we review the evidence provided by brain-damaged patients who suffer from music agnosia, a selective impairment in music recognition. Three cases of music agnosia (C.N., G.L., and I.R.) without concomitant disorders and pre…
Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music
Neuroscience cognitive de la musique
Pr Isabelle Peretz © P. Imbert, Collège de France La musique a existé dans toutes les formes de cultures depuis la préhistoire jusqu’aux temps présents. Mais pourquoi ? Pourquoi sommes-nous une espèce musicale ? Comment notre cerveau gère-t-il cette capacité musicale et quelles en sont les composantes essentielles ? Et comment ce fonctionnement cérébral interagit-t-il avec les autres capacités humaines telles que le langage ? Telles sont les ques…
The Sound of Mute Vowels in Auditory Word-Stem Completion
Musical structural determinants of emotional judgments in dementia of the Alzheimer type
People with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) may well be emotionally soothed by listening to music. However, very few systematic studies have been conducted to support the anecdotal evidence. DAT does damage certain cerebral structures that subsume emotional processing, and some studies have demonstrated deficits affecting emotional judgments of facial expression and prosody in DAT. Accordingly, this study addressed the question of whether DA…
Singing Delays the Onset of Infant Distress
Much is known about the efficacy of infant‐directed ( ID ) speech and singing for capturing attention, but little is known about their role in regulating affect. In Experiment 1, infants 7–10 months of age listened to scripted recordings of ID speech, adult‐directed speech, or singing in an unfamiliar language (Turkish) until they met a criterion of distress based on negative facial expression. They listened to singing for roughly twice as long a…
Comorbidity and cognitive overlap between developmental dyslexia and congenital amusia
This study investigated whether there is a co-occurrence between developmental dyslexia and congenital amusia in adults. First, a database of online musical tests on 18,000 participants was analysed. Self-reported dyslexic participants performed significantly lower on melodic skills than matched controls, suggesting a possible link between reading and musical disorders. In order to test this relationship more directly, we evaluated 20 participant…
Cross-Cultural Work in Music Cognition
Many foundational questions in the psychology of music require cross-cultural approaches, yet the vast majority of work in the field to date has been conducted with Western participants and Western music. For cross-cultural research to thrive, it will require collaboration between people from different disciplinary backgrounds, as well as strategies for overcoming differences in assumptions, methods, and terminology. This position paper surveys t…
Establishing the Reliability and Validity of Web-based Singing Research
In this study, the robustness of an online tool for objectively assessing singing ability was examined by: (1) determining the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the tool; (2) comparing the task performance of web-based participants (n = 285) with a group (n = 52) completing the tool in a controlled laboratory setting, and then determining the convergent validity between settings, and (3) comparing participants’ task performance …
The singing voice is special
The Vocal Advantage in Memory for Melodies is Based on Contour
Recognition memory is better for vocal melodies than instrumental melodies. Here we examine whether this vocal advantage extends to recall. Thirty-one violinists learned four melodies (28 notes, 16 s), two produced by voice and two by violin. Their task was to listen to each melody and then immediately sing (for vocal stimuli) or play back on violin (for violin stimuli) the melody. Recall of the melody was tested in ten consecutive trials. After …
Psychology (13 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Audiology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Neuroscience (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Communication (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)