Cognitive Expertise: An ALE Meta-Analysis

Neumann, Nicola; Lotze, Martín; Eickhoff, Simon B.

doi:10.1002/hbm.23028

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“…The connection of OP 4 to the AC may be the reason that in the present study the activity in the parietal operculum showed the same pattern of activity as the AC, that is, stronger activity during the easier conditions. A metaanalysis revealed that in studies using auditory stimulation activity in this area increased from nonexperts to experts (Neumann, Lotze, & Eickhoff, 2016). This may be comparable to the present situation that when the tasks get easier the activity increases.…”

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“…So here, the binaural tone presentation conditions seem to be dominated by the bottom-up effect of task difficulty, that is, increasing activity with decreasing difficulty because of the increasing frequency range of the stimuli. A metaanalysis revealed that in studies using auditory stimulation activity in this area increased from nonexperts to experts (Neumann, Lotze, & Eickhoff, 2016). Especially the left OP 4 has been suggested to play an important role in the integration of functional coupling between primary AC and motor cortex presumably important for language processing (Sepulcre, 2015).…”

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The impact of task difficulty on the lateralization of processing in the human auditory cortex

Brechmann

Angenstein

2019

Human Brain Mapping

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Perception of complex auditory stimuli like speech requires the simultaneous processing of different fundamental acoustic parameters. The contribution of left and right auditory cortex (AC) in the processing of these parameters differs. In addition, activity within the AC can vary positively or negatively with task performance depending on the type of task. This might affect the allocation of processing to the left and right AC. Here we studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging the impact of task difficulty on the degree of involvement of the left and right AC in two tasks that have previously been shown to differ in hemispheric involvement: categorization and sequential comparison of the direction of frequency modulations (FM). Task difficulty was manipulated by changing the speed of modulation and by that the frequency range covered by the FM. To study the impact of task‐difficulty despite covarying the stimulus parameters, we utilized the contralateral noise procedure that allows comparing AC activation unconfounded by bottom‐up driven activity. The easiest conditions confirmed the known right AC involvement during the categorization task and the left AC involvement during the comparison task. The involvement of the right AC increased with increasing task difficulty for both tasks presumably due to the common task component of categorizing FM direction. The involvement of left AC varied with task difficulty depending on the task. Thus, task difficulty has a strong impact on lateralized processing in AC. This connection must be taken into account when interpreting future results on lateralized processing in the AC.

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Section: Effect Of Task Difficulty On Activity In Cortical Areas Ousupporting

confidence: 62%

Section: Effect Of Task Difficulty On Activity In Cortical Areas Oumentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of task difficulty on the lateralization of processing in the human auditory cortex

Brechmann

Angenstein

2019

Human Brain Mapping

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“…Expert writers had higher GM volume in the right superior frontal (BA 10), right middle frontal (BA 9, 10) and left middle frontal gyri (BA 9, 10, 46) of the prefrontal cortex, the bilateral medial dorsal nuclei of the thalamus, and the left posterior cerebellum. There were no regions where experts showed lower GM volume than nonexperts, a result that corroborates findings of enhanced, but not reduced functional brain activation of experts in various cognitive domains (Neumann, Lotze, & Eickhoff, ). A regression analysis confirmed the positive association of enhanced GM volume in the right frontopolar cortex (BA 10) with practice index.…”

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Voxel‐based morphometry in creative writers: Grey matter increase in a prefronto‐thalamic‐cerebellar network

Neumann

Domín

Erhard

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Eur J of Neuroscience

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Continuous practice modulates those features of brain anatomy specifically associated with requirements of the respective training task. This study aimed to highlight brain structural changes going along with long-term experience in creative writing. To this end, we investigated the grey matter volume of 23 expert writers with voxel-based morphometry and compared it to 28 matched nonexpert controls. Expert writers had higher grey matter volume in the right superior frontal and middle frontal gyri (BA 9,10) as well as left middle frontal gyrus (BA 9, 10, 46), the bilateral medial dorsal nuclei of the thalamus and left posterior cerebellum. A regression analysis confirmed the association of enhanced grey matter volume in the right superior frontal gyrus (BA 10) with practice index of writing. In region-of-interest based regression analyses, we found associations of grey matter volume in the right Broca's analogue (BA 44) and right primary visual cortex (BA 17) with creativity ratings of the texts written during scanning, but not with a standardised verbal creativity test. Creative writing thus seems to be strongly connected to a prefronto-thalamic-cerebellar network that supports the continuous generation, organisation and revision of ideas that is necessary to write literary texts.

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“…With regard to functional differences, expert musicians seem to show, for example, enhanced bilateral activation of the Rolandic operculum (for a review, see Neumann, Lotze, & Eickhoff, 2016). This activation probably reflects superior ability in the processing of auditory information (Koelsch et al, 2006).…”

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Elvis Has Left the Building: Correlational but Not Causal Relationship between Music Skill and Cognitive Ability

Sala¹,

Gobet²

2018

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Music training is commonly thought to have a positive impact on children's cognitive skills and academic achievement. This belief relies on the idea that engaging in an intellectually demanding activity helps to foster overall cognitive function. We here present a meta-analysis of music-intervention studies in children (N = 3,780, k = 204, m = 43). Consistent with the substantial findings in the field of cognitive training, the overall effect size was small ( ̅ = 0.117, p < .001). Moreover, when active controls were implemented, the effect was practically null ( ̅ = 0.032, p = .477) and highly homogeneous (ω 2 = 0.000 and τ 2 = 0.000). Finally, we observe that several independent research groups have concluded, via different methodologies, that music skills acquired by training do not generalize to nonmusic skills. Thorndike and Woodworth's (1901) common elements theory finds thus further support.

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Cognitive Expertise: An ALE Meta-Analysis

Cited by 23 publications

References 105 publications

The impact of task difficulty on the lateralization of processing in the human auditory cortex

The impact of task difficulty on the lateralization of processing in the human auditory cortex

Voxel‐based morphometry in creative writers: Grey matter increase in a prefronto‐thalamic‐cerebellar network

Elvis Has Left the Building: Correlational but Not Causal Relationship between Music Skill and Cognitive Ability

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