Mari Tervaniemi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5675626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mari Tervaniemi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mari |
| FAMILY NAME | Tervaniemi |
| SIGNATURE | TERVANIEMI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9651-2929 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Developing and testing an analysis system to assess singing-pitch accuracy of Chinese children
While several perceptual procedures exist to assess pitch accuracy of singing, computer-assisted methods are scarce. We developed and tested a method that combines automated frequency analysis with manual note segmentation. PitchAnalyzer2.2 software was used to extract the fundamental frequency and the musical pitches of the audio samples. The onsets, offsets, and steady-state sections of the sung syllables were detected manually to identify the …
The potential transfer effect of musical expertise to auditory verbal working memory
Musical expertise has been shown to facilitate verbal working memory (WM) performance, but the findings lacked consistency. Given the overlapped auditory encoding process for language and music, there may be an association between one's native language background and the effects of musical expertise. In the present study, we investigate (1) the effects of musical expertise on verbal WM with different native language backgrounds and (2) the role o…
Impact of Native Language on Musical Working Memory
Music and language share similar sound features and cognitive processes, which may lead to bidirectional transfer effects of training in one domain on the processing in the other domain. We investigated the impact of native language on musical working memory by comparing nontonal language (Finnish) speakers and tonal language (Chinese) speakers. For both language backgrounds, musicians and nonmusicians were recruited. In an experimenter-monitored…
Acoustics and the well-being of children and personnel in early childhood education and care
Studies implementing a multimethod perspective in evaluating the acoustics of early childhood education and care (ECEC) spaces both quantitatively and qualitatively are still scarce. In this study the acoustic environments (noise levels and reverberation times) of seven Finnish ECEC group’s premises were examined in association with personnel’s ( N = 22) and children’s ( N = 71) well-being. Personnel’s well-being and vocal health and children’s w…
The significance of music in early childhood education and care of toddlers in Finland
The present study investigated the role of music education in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in relation to the daily activities of children ages one to three, i.e. toddlers ( N = 918) in Finnish ECEC units ( N = 327). A total of 23,142 random observations were conducted. The observations focused on children’s involvement, emotional expressions, social orientations and interaction with their immediate caregiver. An independently conduc…
Musical Expertise Facilitates Dissonance Detection On Behavioral, Not On Early Sensory Level
Consonance and dissonance are basic phenomena in the perception of chords that can be discriminated very early in sensory processing. Musical expertise has been shown to facilitate neural processing of various musical stimuli, but it is unclear whether this applies to detecting consonance and dissonance. Our study aimed to determine if sensitivity to increasing levels of dissonance differs between musicians and nonmusicians, using a combination o…
The development of the aesthetic experience of music
From an early age, children are attracted to the aesthetics of music. Employing a cross-sectional design including school-aged children, the present exploratory study aimed to investigate the effects of age, gender, and music education on three important aspects of the aesthetic experience of music: musical preference, musical emotion recognition, and the use of the aesthetic categories for music. To this aim, we developed an experimental procedu…
Aesthetic responses to music
We explored the content and structure of the cognitive, knowledge-based concept underlying aesthetic responses to music. To this aim, we asked 290 Finnish students to verbally associate the aesthetic value of music and to write down a list of appropriate adjectives within a given time limit. No music was presented during the task. In addition, information about participants’ musical background was collected. A variety of analysis techniques was u…
Event-Related Potentials to Expectancy Violation in Musical Context
The present study addressed neuronal processing of musical tones that violate expectancies primed by auditorily and visually presented musical material. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded while the musically trained subjects were presented with short melodies composed for the experiment. The subject's expectations for the most likely ending were strengthened by displaying the melody score on a computer screen simultaneously with …
Methodologies of Brain Research in Cognitive Musicology
This tutorial introduces the principles of the most common non-invasive methods of modern brain research which have been used in determining the neural functions underlying music perception. The methods described are electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), positron emission tomography (PET), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In addition, evidence from brain-lesioned patients will be briefly illuminated
Pre-Attentive Processing of Musical Information in the Human Brain
The present review summarizes a series of studies determining how complex auditory information is pre-attentively encoded in the human brain and how these pre-attentive brain functions differ between subjects with different performance levels during active discrimination task. The data indicate that the temporal structure of continuously presented stimulation is pre-attentively stored in the auditory cortex, this encoding being more accurate in s…
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Methodologies of Brain Research in Cognitive Musicology
This tutorial introduces the principles of the most common non-invasive methods of modern brain research which have been used in determining the neural functions underlying music perception. The methods described are electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), positron emission tomography (PET), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In addition, evidence from brain-lesioned patients will be briefly illuminated
Pre-Attentive Processing of Musical Information in the Human Brain
The present review summarizes a series of studies determining how complex auditory information is pre-attentively encoded in the human brain and how these pre-attentive brain functions differ between subjects with different performance levels during active discrimination task. The data indicate that the temporal structure of continuously presented stimulation is pre-attentively stored in the auditory cortex, this encoding being more accurate in s…
Event-Related Potentials to Expectancy Violation in Musical Context
The present study addressed neuronal processing of musical tones that violate expectancies primed by auditorily and visually presented musical material. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded while the musically trained subjects were presented with short melodies composed for the experiment. The subject's expectations for the most likely ending were strengthened by displaying the melody score on a computer screen simultaneously with …
Aesthetic responses to music
We explored the content and structure of the cognitive, knowledge-based concept underlying aesthetic responses to music. To this aim, we asked 290 Finnish students to verbally associate the aesthetic value of music and to write down a list of appropriate adjectives within a given time limit. No music was presented during the task. In addition, information about participants’ musical background was collected. A variety of analysis techniques was u…
The development of the aesthetic experience of music
From an early age, children are attracted to the aesthetics of music. Employing a cross-sectional design including school-aged children, the present exploratory study aimed to investigate the effects of age, gender, and music education on three important aspects of the aesthetic experience of music: musical preference, musical emotion recognition, and the use of the aesthetic categories for music. To this aim, we developed an experimental procedu…
Musical Expertise Facilitates Dissonance Detection On Behavioral, Not On Early Sensory Level
Consonance and dissonance are basic phenomena in the perception of chords that can be discriminated very early in sensory processing. Musical expertise has been shown to facilitate neural processing of various musical stimuli, but it is unclear whether this applies to detecting consonance and dissonance. Our study aimed to determine if sensitivity to increasing levels of dissonance differs between musicians and nonmusicians, using a combination o…
The significance of music in early childhood education and care of toddlers in Finland
The present study investigated the role of music education in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in relation to the daily activities of children ages one to three, i.e. toddlers ( N = 918) in Finnish ECEC units ( N = 327). A total of 23,142 random observations were conducted. The observations focused on children’s involvement, emotional expressions, social orientations and interaction with their immediate caregiver. An independently conduc…
Acoustics and the well-being of children and personnel in early childhood education and care
Studies implementing a multimethod perspective in evaluating the acoustics of early childhood education and care (ECEC) spaces both quantitatively and qualitatively are still scarce. In this study the acoustic environments (noise levels and reverberation times) of seven Finnish ECEC group’s premises were examined in association with personnel’s ( N = 22) and children’s ( N = 71) well-being. Personnel’s well-being and vocal health and children’s w…
Impact of Native Language on Musical Working Memory
Music and language share similar sound features and cognitive processes, which may lead to bidirectional transfer effects of training in one domain on the processing in the other domain. We investigated the impact of native language on musical working memory by comparing nontonal language (Finnish) speakers and tonal language (Chinese) speakers. For both language backgrounds, musicians and nonmusicians were recruited. In an experimenter-monitored…
Developing and testing an analysis system to assess singing-pitch accuracy of Chinese children
While several perceptual procedures exist to assess pitch accuracy of singing, computer-assisted methods are scarce. We developed and tested a method that combines automated frequency analysis with manual note segmentation. PitchAnalyzer2.2 software was used to extract the fundamental frequency and the musical pitches of the audio samples. The onsets, offsets, and steady-state sections of the sung syllables were detected manually to identify the …
The potential transfer effect of musical expertise to auditory verbal working memory
Musical expertise has been shown to facilitate verbal working memory (WM) performance, but the findings lacked consistency. Given the overlapped auditory encoding process for language and music, there may be an association between one's native language background and the effects of musical expertise. In the present study, we investigate (1) the effects of musical expertise on verbal WM with different native language backgrounds and (2) the role o…
Neuroscience and Music Perception (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (5 works) · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works)