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Figure 2-1 Representation of key maps either unfolded (left) or on the surface of
a torus (right) 11
Figure 2-2 Neurocognitive model of music perception 16
Figure 4-1 “Musilanguage Model” 40
Figure 4-2 Model specifying three levels of interaction between music and language
in the brain: sharing, parallelism, or distinction. 41
Figure 5-1 Schematic overview of the developmental stages of auditory language
perception and the ERP correlates that provide the possibility to investigate
phonological, semantic and syntactic processes 53
Figure 5-2 Neurocognitive model of auditory language comprehension 65
Figure 7-1 Electrode positions of the Internationational 10-20 system 88
Figure 7-2 Schematic overview of recording and processing an EEG 90
Figure 9-1 Examples of the musical stimuli from Experiment I 96
Figure 9-2 Grand-average ERP waveforms in the subgroup in which the supertonics
were used as irregular chords (2½-year old children) 101
Figure 9-3 Grand-average ERP waveforms in the subgroup in which the Neapolitan
sixth chords were used as irregular chords (2½-year-olds) 102
Figure 10-1 Overview of the chord sequences used in Experiment II – IV 109
Figure 10-2 ERP responses to the onset of the first chord in the sequence 112
Figure 10-3 ERP responses to the irregular compared to the regular chords –
5-year old children 113
Figure 10-4 Scalp topography of the investigated ERP components (ERAN and
N5) – 5-year old children 114
Figure 11-1 Examples of the sentence types used in the language experiment
(Experiment III and IV) 126
Figure 11-2 ERPs from the music and the language experiment – 9-year old children
131
Figure 11-3 Scalp topographies of the investigated ERP components (ERAN, N5,
and LSN) – 9-year old children 132
Figure 12-1 ERPs from the music and the language experiment – 11-year old children
143
Figure 12-2 Scalp topographies of the investigated ERP components (ERAN, N5,
ELAN, and LSN) – 11-year old children 144
Figure 12-3 Summary of the results from Experiment IV – 11-year-olds 151
Figure 13-1 Developmental course of the amplitude size of ERAN and N5 155