Trial reportProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018
Neural network retuning and neural predictors of learning success associated with cello training.
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- Unravelling individual rhythmic abilities using machine learning.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Individual differences in rhythm perception modulate music-related motor learning: a neurobehavioral training study with children.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Cortico-cerebellar audio-motor regions coordinate self and other in musical joint action.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Brain oscillation recordings of the audience in a live concert-like setting.Cognitive processing · 2022Article
- Understanding Sensitive Period Effects in Musical Training.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2022Article
- Musical instrument training program improves verbal memory and neural efficiency in novice older adults.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- How Musical Training Shapes the Adult Brain: Predispositions and Neuroplasticity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Neural Advantages of Older Musicians Involve the Cerebellum: Implications for Healthy Aging Through Lifelong Musical Instrument Training.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Cellists' sound quality is shaped by their primary postural behavior.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Auditory representation of learned sound sequences in motor regions of the macaque brain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Short-term plasticity following motor sequence learning revealed by diffusion magnetic resonance imaging.Human brain mapping · 2020Article
- Inherent auditory skills rather than formal music training shape the neural encoding of speech.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Adult Gross Motor Learning and Sleep: Is There a Mutual Benefit?Neural plasticity · 2018Review
- Partially Overlapping Brain Networks for Singing and Cello Playing.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
The auditory and motor neural systems are closely intertwined, enabling people to carry out tasks such as playing a musical instrument whose mapping between action and sound is extremely sophisticated. While the dorsal auditory stream has been shown to mediate these audio-motor transformations, little is known about how such mapping emerges with training. Here, we use longitudinal training on a cello as a model for brain plasticity during the acquisition of specific complex skills, including continuous and many-to-one audio-motor mapping, and we investigate individual differences in learning. We trained participants with no musical background to play on a specially designed MRI-compatible cello and scanned them before and after 1 and 4 wk of training. Activation of the auditory-to-motor dorsal cortical stream emerged rapidly during the training and was similarly activated during passive listening and cello performance of trained melodies. This network activation was independent of performance accuracy and therefore appears to be a prerequisite of music playing. In contrast, greater recruitment of regions involved in auditory encoding and motor control over the training was related to better musical proficiency. Additionally, pre-supplementary motor area activity and its connectivity with the auditory cortex during passive listening before training was predictive of final training success, revealing the integrative function of this network in auditory-motor information processing. Together, these results clarify the critical role of the dorsal stream and its interaction with auditory areas in complex audio-motor learning.
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