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Resting state functional connectivity of the ventral auditory pathway in musicians with absolute pitch.
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- Conceptual coherence but methodological mayhem: A systematic review of absolute pitch phenotyping.Behavior research methods · 2025Pooled it
- Brain structural morphometry in non-musicians with superior pitch identification ability.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Age-Related Hearing Decline and Resting-State Networks.American journal of audiology · 2025Article
- Assessment of resting state structural-functional relationships in perisylvian region during the early weeks after birth.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Auditory temporal resolution and backward masking in musicians with absolute pitch.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Trait representation of embodied cognition in dancers pivoting on the extended mirror neuron system: a resting-state fMRI study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- The left dorsal stream causally mediates the tone labeling in absolute pitch.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2021Article
- Musical Expertise Shapes Functional and Structural Brain Networks Independent of Absolute Pitch Ability.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Perception and Cognition in Absolute Pitch: Distinct yet Inseparable.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Auditory T-Complex Reveals Reduced Neural Activities in the Right Auditory Cortex in Musicians With Absolute Pitch.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Dissonance encoding in human inferior colliculus covaries with individual differences in dislike of dissonant music.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- On the Perceptual Subprocess of Absolute Pitch.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Review
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Abstract
Absolute pitch (AP) is the ability to recognize pitch chroma of tonal sound without external references, providing a unique model of the human auditory system (Zatorre: Nat Neurosci 6 () 692-695). In a previous study (Kim and Knösche: Hum Brain Mapp () 3486-3501), we identified enhanced intracortical myelination in the right planum polare (PP) in musicians with AP, which could be a potential site for perceptional processing of pitch chroma information. We speculated that this area, which initiates the ventral auditory pathway, might be crucially involved in the perceptual stage of the AP process in the context of the "dual pathway hypothesis" that suggests the role of the ventral pathway in processing nonspatial information related to the identity of an auditory object (Rauschecker: Eur J Neurosci 41 () 579-585). To test our conjecture on the ventral pathway, we investigated resting state functional connectivity (RSFC) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) from musicians with varying degrees of AP. Should our hypothesis be correct, RSFC via the ventral pathway is expected to be stronger in musicians with AP, whereas such group effect is not predicted in the RSFC via the dorsal pathway. In the current data, we found greater RSFC between the right PP and bilateral anteroventral auditory cortices in musicians with AP. In contrast, we did not find any group difference in the RSFC of the planum temporale (PT) between musicians with and without AP. We believe that these findings support our conjecture on the critical role of the ventral pathway in AP recognition. Hum Brain Mapp 38:3899-3916, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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