ArticleHuman brain mapping2014
Tones and numbers: a combined EEG-MEG study on the effects of musical expertise in magnitude comparisons of audiovisual stimuli.
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- A Pilot Study Examining the Effects of Music Training on Attention in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD).Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Trial
- Neural signatures of automatic letter-speech sound integration in literate adults.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Bi-temporal processing in music notation reading: a theory linking prediction, memory, and automaticity.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Article
- The relationship between musical training and the processing of audiovisual correspondences: Evidence from a reaction time task.PloS one · 2023Article
- Effects of musical expertise on line section and line extension.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The impact of musical training in symbolic and non-symbolic audiovisual judgements of magnitude.PloS one · 2022Article
- Analysis of Prefrontal Single-Channel EEG Data for Portable Auditory ERP-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
This study investigated the cortical responses underlying magnitude comparisons of multisensory stimuli and examined the effect that musical expertise has in this process. The comparative judgments were based on a newly learned rule binding the auditory and visual stimuli within the context of magnitude comparisons: "the higher the pitch of the tone, the larger the number presented." The cortical responses were measured by simultaneous MEG\EEG recordings and a combined source analysis with individualized realistic head models was performed. Musical expertise effects were investigated by comparing musicians to non-musicians. Congruent audiovisual stimuli, corresponding to the newly learned rule, elicited activity in frontotemporal and occipital areas. In contrast, incongruent stimuli activated temporal and parietal regions. Musicians when compared with nonmusicians showed increased differences between congruent and incongruent stimuli in a prefrontal region, thereby indicating that music expertise may affect multisensory comparative judgments within a generalized representation of analog magnitude.
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