Inter-subject Similarity of Brain Activity in Expert Musicians After Multimodal Learning: A Behavioral and Neuroimaging Study on Learning to Play a Piano Sonata

Fasano, Maria Celeste; Glerean, Enrico; Gold, Benjamin P.; Sheng, Dana L.; Sams, Mikko; Vuust, Peter; Rauschecker, Josef P.; Brattico, Elvira

doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.06.015

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“…Processing of music has been investigated using ISC as well. fMRI studies have related the measure to neural tracking of time-varying stimulus features (Alluri et al, 2012), temporal cohesion of music (Abrams et al, 2013; Farbood et al, 2015), emotional responses to music (Trost et al, 2015), and effects of training (Fasano et al, 2020). Recent EEG studies, with a focus on engagement, have found ISC to be modulated by musical training, repeated exposures, and familiarity of musical genres (Madsen et al, 2019); and have used ISC and related measures to assess temporal stimulus manipulations, beat processing, and repetition effects during music listening (Kaneshiro et al, 2020).…”

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Inter-Subject EEG Correlation Reflects Time-Varying Engagement with Natural Music

Kaneshiro

Norcia

et al. 2021

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Musical engagement can be conceptualized through various activities, modes of listening, and listener states - among these a state of focused engagement. Recent research has reported that this state can be indexed by the inter-subject correlation (ISC) of EEG responses to a shared naturalistic stimulus. While statistically significant ISC has been reported during music listening, these reports have considered only correlations computed across entire excerpts and do not provide insights into time-varying engagement. Here we present the first EEG-ISC investigation of time-varying engagement within a musical work. From a sample of 23 adult musicians who listened to a cello concerto movement, we find varying levels of ISC throughout the excerpt. In particular, significant ISC is observed during periods of musical tension that build to climactic highpoints, but not at the highpoints themselves. In addition, we find that a control stimulus retaining low-frequency envelope characteristics of the intact music, but little other temporal structure, also elicits significant neural correlation, though to a lesser extent than the original. In all, our findings shed light on temporal dynamics of listener engagement during music listening, establish connections between salient musical events and EEG-ISC, and clarify specific listener states that are indexed by this measure.

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Inter-Subject EEG Correlation Reflects Time-Varying Engagement with Natural Music

Kaneshiro

Norcia

et al. 2021

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“…Most trivially, playing a musical instrument requires moving the limbs and refining motor actions and programs, as well as mapping sounds to actions and back [13]. This special motor activity leads to measurable modifications of the dedicated neural circuity, with superior functionality and connectivity [14][15][16][17][18], as well as increased thickness and volume of grey and white matter of audio-motor areas in the cerebrum and cerebellum [19,20], as visible in both cross-sectional studies comparing professional musicians (dedicating decades of their life and tens of thousands of hours to playing a musical instrument) [21] and controls and in longitudinal studies following the learning process in children or adults [22,23]. Motor exercise occurs not only when playing a musical instrument and moving the limbs, but also when listening to music.…”

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Putting Cells in Motion: Advantages of Endogenous Boosting of BDNF Production

Brattico

Bonetti

Ferretti

et al. 2021

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Motor exercise, such as sport or musical activities, helps with a plethora of diseases by modulating brain functions in neocortical and subcortical regions, resulting in behavioural changes related to mood regulation, well-being, memory, and even cognitive preservation in aging and neurodegenerative diseases. Although evidence is accumulating on the systemic neural mechanisms mediating these brain effects, the specific mechanisms by which exercise acts upon the cellular level are still under investigation. This is particularly the case for music training, a much less studied instance of motor exercise than sport. With regards to sport, consistent neurobiological research has focused on the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), an essential player in the central nervous system. BDNF stimulates the growth and differentiation of neurons and synapses. It thrives in the hippocampus, the cortex, and the basal forebrain, which are the areas vital for memory, learning, and higher cognitive functions. Animal models and neurocognitive experiments on human athletes converge in demonstrating that physical exercise reliably boosts BDNF levels. In this review, we highlight comparable early findings obtained with animal models and elderly humans exposed to musical stimulation, showing how perceptual exposure to music might affect BDNF release, similar to what has been observed for sport. We subsequently propose a novel hypothesis that relates the neuroplastic changes in the human brains after musical training to genetically- and exercise-driven BDNF levels.

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“…Music psychology paradigm studies music performance, composition, and education under empirical experimentations. The 15.63% or 10/64 studies conducted in this domain all consisted of participants performing different instruments in duets or quartets such as guitar (Viktor et al, 2018 ; Fasano et al, 2020 ), and saxophone (Greco et al, 2018 ), performing choreographed dance (Poikonen et al, 2018 ) and enjoying music (Madsen et al, 2019 ; Kaneshiro et al, 2020 ). The performers were given different music notes to learn or perform concerning their expertise level.…”

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Recent Trends in Non-invasive Neural Recording Based Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Analysis on Multidisciplinary Human Interactions for Understanding Brain Dynamics: A Systematic Review

Nazneen

Islam

Sajal

et al. 2022

Front. Comput. Neurosci.

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The study of brain-to-brain synchrony has a burgeoning application in the brain-computer interface (BCI) research, offering valuable insights into the neural underpinnings of interacting human brains using numerous neural recording technologies. The area allows exploring the commonality of brain dynamics by evaluating the neural synchronization among a group of people performing a specified task. The growing number of publications on brain-to-brain synchrony inspired the authors to conduct a systematic review using the PRISMA protocol so that future researchers can get a comprehensive understanding of the paradigms, methodologies, translational algorithms, and challenges in the area of brain-to-brain synchrony research. This review has gone through a systematic search with a specified search string and selected some articles based on pre-specified eligibility criteria. The findings from the review revealed that most of the articles have followed the social psychology paradigm, while 36% of the selected studies have an application in cognitive neuroscience. The most applied approach to determine neural connectivity is a coherence measure utilizing phase-locking value (PLV) in the EEG studies, followed by wavelet transform coherence (WTC) in all of the fNIRS studies. While most of the experiments have control experiments as a part of their setup, a small number implemented algorithmic control, and only one study had interventional or a stimulus-induced control experiment to limit spurious synchronization. Hence, to the best of the authors' knowledge, this systematic review solely contributes to critically evaluating the scopes and technological advances of brain-to-brain synchrony to allow this discipline to produce more effective research outcomes in the remote future.

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Inter-subject Similarity of Brain Activity in Expert Musicians After Multimodal Learning: A Behavioral and Neuroimaging Study on Learning to Play a Piano Sonata

Cited by 25 publications

References 89 publications

Inter-Subject EEG Correlation Reflects Time-Varying Engagement with Natural Music

Inter-Subject EEG Correlation Reflects Time-Varying Engagement with Natural Music

Putting Cells in Motion: Advantages of Endogenous Boosting of BDNF Production

Recent Trends in Non-invasive Neural Recording Based Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Analysis on Multidisciplinary Human Interactions for Understanding Brain Dynamics: A Systematic Review

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