ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2018
Beatboxers and Guitarists Engage Sensorimotor Regions Selectively When Listening to the Instruments They can Play.
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- A Theory of Instrument-Specific Absolute Pitch.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Understanding rostral-caudal auditory cortex contributions to auditory perception.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2019Review
- Fractionating auditory priors: A neural dissociation between active and passive experience of musical sounds.PloS one · 2019Article
- Hearing a Feeling: Music Emotion Recognition and Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Childhood.Child developmentArticle
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Abstract
Studies of classical musicians have demonstrated that expertise modulates neural responses during auditory perception. However, it remains unclear whether such expertise-dependent plasticity is modulated by the instrument that a musician plays. To examine whether the recruitment of sensorimotor regions during music perception is modulated by instrument-specific experience, we studied nonclassical musicians-beatboxers, who predominantly use their vocal apparatus to produce sound, and guitarists, who use their hands. We contrast fMRI activity in 20 beatboxers, 20 guitarists, and 20 nonmusicians as they listen to novel beatboxing and guitar pieces. All musicians show enhanced activity in sensorimotor regions (IFG, IPC, and SMA), but only when listening to the musical instrument they can play. Using independent component analysis, we find expertise-selective enhancement in sensorimotor networks, which are distinct from changes in attentional networks. These findings suggest that long-term sensorimotor experience facilitates access to the posterodorsal "how" pathway during auditory processing.
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