Involuntary Motor Activity in Pianists Evoked by Music Perception

Haueisen, Jens; Knösche, Thomas R.

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“…Trained pianists have been shown to have an involuntary increase in motor cortex activity when listening to piano pieces and performing a decoy task requiring detection of a wrong note in a piece of familiar music (Haueisen and Knosche, 2001). The decoy task was designed to emphasize the perceptual rather than the production components of musical processing, thus ensuring that any motor-related activations were genuinely involuntary.…”

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Brain changes after learning to read and play music

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Musically naive participants were scanned before and after a period of 15 weeks during which they were taught to read music and play the keyboard. When participants played melodies from musical notation after training, activation was seen in a cluster of voxels within the bilateral superior parietal cortex. A subset of these voxels were activated in a second experiment in which musical notation was present, but irrelevant for task performance. These activations suggest that music reading involves the automatic sensorimotor translation of a spatial code (written music) into a series of motor responses (keypresses).

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“…Moreover, hearing action-related sounds like knock on the door or hand clapping or more complex auditory material like a piano piece also activates motor and premotor regions (e.g., Lahav, Saltzman, & Schlaug, 2007;Pizzamiglio et al, 2005;Aziz-Zadeh, Iacoboni, Zaidel, Wilson, & Mazziotta, 2004;Haueisen & Knösche, 2001). These results support the long-standing theoretical proposal that specific constraints and regularity in biological motion and kinematics are used in action recognition (Viviani & Stucchi, 1992;Johansson, 1973), even when they are roughly represented by point lights (Loula, Prasad, Harber, & Shiffrar, 2005;Beardsworth & Buckner, 1981).…”

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Inside Speech: Multisensory and Modality-specific Processing of Tongue and Lip Speech Actions

Treille

Vilain

Hueber

et al. 2017

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstract■ Action recognition has been found to rely not only on sensory brain areas but also partly on the observer's motor system. However, whether distinct auditory and visual experiences of an action modulate sensorimotor activity remains largely unknown. In the present sparse sampling fMRI study, we determined to which extent sensory and motor representations interact during the perception of tongue and lip speech actions. Tongue and lip speech actions were selected because tongue movements of our interlocutor are accessible via their impact on speech acoustics but not visible because of its position inside the vocal tract, whereas lip movements are both "audible" and visible. Participants were presented with auditory, visual, and audiovisual speech actions, with the visual inputs related to either a sagittal view of the tongue movements or a facial view of the lip movements of a speaker, previously recorded by an ultrasound imaging system and a video camera. Although the neural networks involved in visual visuo-lingual and visuo-facial perception largely overlapped, stronger motor and somatosensory activations were observed during visuo-lingual perception. In contrast, stronger activity was found in auditory and visual cortices during visuo-facial perception. Complementing these findings, activity in the left premotor cortex and in visual brain areas was found to correlate with visual recognition scores observed for visuo-lingual and visuo-facial speech stimuli, respectively, whereas visual activity correlated with RTs for both stimuli. These results suggest that unimodal and multimodal processing of lip and tongue speech actions rely on common sensorimotor brain areas. They also suggest that visual processing of audible but not visible movements induces motor and visual mental simulation of the perceived actions to facilitate recognition and/or to learn the association between auditory and visual signals. ■

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“…Music is ubiquitous, a human feature, as ancient as homo sapiens, deeply rooted in our biology, with a seemingly distinct and extensive functional neuroarchitecture, capable of inducing vivid, intense emotions, all of which makes it an appealing phenomenon to study different areas of human nature. Sensory-motor mechanisms can be also studied using music since they activate not only when performing, but also when listening to it (Lahav, Saltzman, & Schlaug, 2007;Zatorre, Chen, & Penhune, 2007;Haueisen & Knösche, 2001). …”

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Dynamics of brain activity underlying working memory for music in a naturalistic condition

Burunat

Alluri

Toiviainen

et al. 2014

Cortex

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Sivumäärä -Number of pages 70Tiivistelmä -Abstract Working memory (WM) is at the core of any cognitive function as it is necessary for the integration of information over time. Despite WM's critical role in high-level cognitive functions, its implementation in the neural tissue is poorly understood. Preliminary studies on auditory WM show differences between linguistic and musical memory, leading to the speculation of specific neural networks encoding memory for music. Moreover, in neuroscience WM has not been studied in naturalistic listening conditions but rather in artificial settings (e.g., n-back and Sternberg tasks). Western tonal music provides naturally occurring motivic repetition and variation, recognizable units serving as WM trigger, thus allowing us to study the phenomenon of motif-tracking in the context of real music. Adopting a modern tango as stimulus, behavioural methods were used to identify the stimulus motifs and build a time-course predictor of WM neural responses. This predictor was then correlated with the participants' functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signal obtained during a continuous listening condition. Neural correlates related to the sensory processing of a set of musical features were filtered out from the brain responses to music to aid in the exclusive recruitment of executive processes of music-related WM. Correlational analysis revealed a widely distributed network of cortical and subcortical areas, predominantly right-lateralized, responding to the WM condition, including ventral and dorsal areas in the prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia, and limbic areas. Significant subcortical processing areas, active in response to the WM condition, were pruned with the removal of the acoustic content, suggesting these music-related perceptual processing areas might aid in the encoding and retrieval of WM. The pattern of dispersed neural activity indicates WM to emerge coherently from the integration of distributed neural activity spread out over different brain subsystems (motoric-, cognitive-and sensory-related areas of the brain).Asiasanat -Keywords working memory; cognitive neuroscience; music; musical motifs; functional magnetic resonance imaging ( Lashley was attempting to identify the locus of memory within the cortex, and, to do so, first trained rats to run mazes, and then removed various cortical regions. He allowed the animals to recover and tested the retention of the maze-running skills. To his surprise it was not possible to find a particular region corresponding to the ability to remember the way through a maze. Instead all the rats which had had cortex regions removed suffered some kind of impairment, and the extent of the impairment was roughly proportional to the amount of cortex taken off. Removing cortex damaged the motor and sensory capacities of the animals, and they would limp, hop, roll, or stagger, but somehow they always managed to traverse the maze. So far as memory 'as concerned, the cortex appeared to be equipotential, that is, with all regions of eq...

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Involuntary Motor Activity in Pianists Evoked by Music Perception

Cited by 296 publications

References 17 publications

Brain changes after learning to read and play music

Brain changes after learning to read and play music

Inside Speech: Multisensory and Modality-specific Processing of Tongue and Lip Speech Actions

Dynamics of brain activity underlying working memory for music in a naturalistic condition

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