An ALE meta-analytic review of top-down and bottom-up processing of music in the brain

Pando‐Naude, Victor; A, Patyczek; Bonetti, Leonardo; Vuust, Peter

doi:10.1038/s41598-021-00139-3

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“…Moreover, they found that recognition of previously learned compared to novel melodies was associated with stronger cingulate activity 60,61 . Along this line, a recent meta-analysis 74 on music perception, imagery and production highlighted the involvement of cingulate gyrus when participants were asked to do a variety of different tasks concerning music listening and production, and mental manipulation of sounds. Taken together, this evidence supports the idea that cingulate gyrus may be a key structure for extracting information from musical sequences and signalling variations from the previously learned melodies.…”

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Whole-brain computation of cognitive versus acoustic errors in music

Bonetti

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Kliuchko

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Previous studies have evidenced how the local prediction of physical stimulus features may affect the neural processing of incoming stimuli. Less known are the effects of cognitive priors on predictive processes, and how the brain computes local versus cognitive predictions and their errors. Here, we determined the differential brain mechanisms underlying prediction errors related to high-level, cognitive priors for melody (rhythm, contour) versus low-level, local acoustic priors (tuning, timbre). We measured with magnetoencephalography the mismatch negativity (MMN) prediction error signal in 104 adults having varying levels of musical expertise. We discovered that the brain regions involved in predictive processes for local priors were primary and secondary auditory cortex and insula, whereas cognitive brain regions such as cingulate and orbitofrontal cortices were recruited for melodic errors in cognitive priors. The involvement of higher-level brain regions for computing cognitive errors was enhanced in musicians, especially in cingulate cortex, inferior frontal gyri, and supplementary motor area. Overall, the findings expand knowledge on whole-brain mechanisms of predictive processing and the related MMN generators, previously mainly confined to the auditory cortex, to a frontal network that strictly depends on the type of priors that are to be computed by the brain.

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Whole-brain computation of cognitive versus acoustic errors in music

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Kliuchko

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“…In this paper, we have focused on how certain individual, cultural, and acoustic factors affect music listening with a special focus on their neurobiological underpinnings, somewhat in line with a very recent meta-analysis on music listening and imagery (see Figure 3 ), which conceives of music mainly as a sensorimotor and cognitive process, but leaving out most of the affective and even more the aesthetic aspects of the experience, such as judgment and eudaimonia [ 117 ]. Starting from recent developments for the acoustic description of music and ways of listening, we have elaborated on the possible effects of music, which may be modulated or even biased considerably by the personality and learning history of each individual listener.…”

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“…Most investigations, however, have concentrated on cortical and subcortical “telencephalic sites” of aesthetic and emotional processing, such as, e.g., the dorsal and ventral striatum and amygdala, somewhat in line with a very recent meta-analysis on music listening and imagery (see Figure 3 ) [ 117 ]. Yet some evolutionary older levels, such as the brain stem, which houses several auditory processing mechanisms as well as core mechanisms for homeostatic regulation, have been left out to some extent, due partially to the technical difficulties of brain stem imaging, but also to the lack of theoretical frameworks for its role in hearing as related to the mechanism of homeostasis [ 26 ].…”

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Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter?

2021

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The last decades have seen a proliferation of music and brain studies, with a major focus on plastic changes as the outcome of continuous and prolonged engagement with music. Thanks to the advent of neuroaesthetics, research on music cognition has broadened its scope by considering the multifarious phenomenon of listening in all its forms, including incidental listening up to the skillful attentive listening of experts, and all its possible effects. These latter range from objective and sensorial effects directly linked to the acoustic features of the music to the subjectively affective and even transformational effects for the listener. Of special importance is the finding that neural activity in the reward circuit of the brain is a key component of a conscious listening experience. We propose that the connection between music and the reward system makes music listening a gate towards not only hedonia but also eudaimonia, namely a life well lived, full of meaning that aims at realizing one’s own “daimon” or true nature. It is argued, further, that music listening, even when conceptualized in this aesthetic and eudaimonic framework, remains a learnable skill that changes the way brain structures respond to sounds and how they interact with each other.

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“…The link between musical expertise and humans’ cognitive functions has been explored with great interest since the times of Pythagoras. Recent years reveal a renewed and more than vivid attention to the topic, as reflected in the rising number of empirical research in the past half-century 40,41 . Decades of investigations in psychology, cognitive and translational neuroscience have attempted to foster our understanding of the neurocognitive processes underlying musical expertise.…”

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An ALE meta-analytic review of musical expertise

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Pando‐Naude

Bonetti

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Musical expertise is a model of neuroplasticity associated with pervasive, long-lasting training effects. Indeed, decades of cognitive neuroscience widely investigated brain functional and structural changes associated with musical training, providing a widespread and variegated set of findings. However, several controversial results emerged, leading the neuroscientific community to lack a well-defined neuro-functional-anatomy of musical expertise. Here, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of publications investigating brain functional and structural differences between musicians and non-musicians. Eighty-four publications were included in the qualitative synthesis. Coordinate-based meta-analyses were conducted using the anatomic/activation likelihood estimation (ALE) method implemented in GingerALE, with a total of 675 foci, 79 experiments and 2780 participants. Results showed a widespread and complex array of functional and structural changes in musicians' brains, revealing for the first time a comprehensive picture of the brain plasticity associated with musical training.

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An ALE meta-analytic review of top-down and bottom-up processing of music in the brain

Cited by 48 publications

References 76 publications

Whole-brain computation of cognitive versus acoustic errors in music

Whole-brain computation of cognitive versus acoustic errors in music

Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter?

An ALE meta-analytic review of musical expertise

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