Trial reportJournal of neurophysiology2012
Sensitivity to musical structure in the human brain.
Trial report in Journal of neurophysiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Identifying a brain network for musical rhythm: A functional neuroimaging meta-analysis and systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Pooled it
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- Hierarchical neural integration of musical structure during expert performance.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Music-selective cortex is sensitive to structure in both pitch and time.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026Article
- Acoustic features of music differentially modulate anxiety through EEG gamma oscillations and prefrontal connectivity.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The impact of musical expertise on disentangled and contextual neural encoding of music revealed by generative music models.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Evidence for a compensatory relationship between left- and right-lateralized brain networks.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- The role of musical aspects of language in human cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Subcortical responses to music and speech are alike while cortical responses diverge.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Evidence for a Compensatory Relationship between Left- and Right-Lateralized Brain Networks.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Disrupted network interactions serve as a neural marker of dyslexia.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Is song processing distinct and special in the auditory cortex?Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023Review
- The human language system, including its inferior frontal component in "Broca's area," does not support music perception.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Neuroimaging evidence for the direct role of auditory scene analysis in object perception.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Task-Dependent Functional and Effective Connectivity during Conceptual Processing.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2021Article
- Music-selective neural populations arise without musical training.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Music in Noise: Neural Correlates Underlying Noise Tolerance in Music-Induced Emotion.Cerebral cortex communications · 2021Article
- Task-Dependent Recruitment of Modality-Specific and Multimodal Regions during Conceptual Processing.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2020Article
- The Rapid Emergence of Musical Pitch Structure in Human Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Evidence from brain-damaged patients suggests that regions in the temporal lobes, distinct from those engaged in lower-level auditory analysis, process the pitch and rhythmic structure in music. In contrast, neuroimaging studies targeting the representation of music structure have primarily implicated regions in the inferior frontal cortices. Combining individual-subject fMRI analyses with a scrambling method that manipulated musical structure, we provide evidence of brain regions sensitive to musical structure bilaterally in the temporal lobes, thus reconciling the neuroimaging and patient findings. We further show that these regions are sensitive to the scrambling of both pitch and rhythmic structure but are insensitive to high-level linguistic structure. Our results suggest the existence of brain regions with representations of musical structure that are distinct from high-level linguistic representations and lower-level acoustic representations. These regions provide targets for future research investigating possible neural specialization for music or its associated mental processes.
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