Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Research background 2
1.1.1 Pitch 2
1.1.2 Chord and Interval 3
1.1.3 The auditory event-related potential (AEP) 4
1.1.4 Schizophrenia 5
1.1.5 Current researches of hemispheric differences 6
1.1.6 10-20 International system vs. Brodmann Area (BA) 7
1.2 Research motivation 8
1.3 Research goal 9
Chapter 2 Material and Method 10
2.1 Environment of Human Music-Perception Experiment 10
2.2 Subjects 12
2.3 Stimuli 15
2.4 Experiment Design 18
2.4.1 Behavior Experiment 19
2.4.2 ERPs Experiment 20
2.5 EEG recordings and data analysis 21
2.6 Statistical analysis 22
Chapter 3 Experiment result 24
3.1 Auditory hallucinations 25
3.2 Analysis of midline ERPs experiments 28
3.2.1 Comparison with patients and controls 30
3.2.2 Comparison with musicians and controls 35
3.3 The ERP power of different brain area for three groups 40
3.4 Analysis of hemispheric differences by electrode to electrode 44
Chapter 4 Discussion 57
4.1 Auditory hallucination 57
4.2 ERPs experiment 58
4.2.1 Schizophrenia patients vs. healthy controls 58
4.2.2 Musicians vs. healthy controls 59
4.3 Hemispheric differences 60
4.3.1 Hemispheric differences in three groups 60
4.3.2 Music complexity 63
Chapter 5 Conclusion 65
Reference 67
Appendix I -- PANSS 72
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