Mindenkit szeretettel látunk A BME Kognitív Szemináriumsorozat következo" elo"adására: We cordially invite you to the next lecture of the BME cognitive seminar series: Figyelem / Attention! Új helyre költöztünk / We moved to a new place Date & Time: September 12, Monday, 11:00-12:00 Location: BME, XI., Egry József utca 1., T. ép 515. *The early right anterior negativity as an index of music-syntactic processing Stefan Koelsch* Department of Educational Science and Psychology Cluster "Languages of Emotion" Freie Universität Berlin http://www.stefan-koelsch.de/ Abstract This talk will first give a brief overview over theoretical concepts of musical syntax. Then studies using the early right anterior negativity (ERAN) as an electrophysiological index of music-syntactic processing will be reviewed. The ERAN is usually occurs at around 150 - 200 ms after the onset of a musical event, and receives main contributions from the inferior fronto-lateral cortex (Broca's area and its right-hemispheric homotope). The ERAN is taken as an index of a disruption of musical structure building. Although the morphology of the ERAN is reminiscent of that of the mismatch negativity (MMN), there are important functional differences between ERAN and MMN. For example, the regularities underlying the generation of the MMN are established on-line (that is, based on on representations of regularities that are extracted on-line from the acoustic environment). By contrast, the generation of the ERAN requires (implicit) knowledge about regularities (that is, representations of regularities that are stored in a long-term format). Furthermore, the generation of the MMN is based on local dependencies, whereas the generation of the ERAN involves processing of long-distance dependencies at the level of phrase-structure grammar (context-free grammar). -- Attila Keresztes Junior Research Fellow Budapest University of Technology and Economics Dept. of Cognitive Science, Egry József u. 1, Budapest 1111, Hungary Tel: +36 1 4633525