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Recruitment of the motor system during music listening: An ALE meta-analysis of fMRI data.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The rediscovered motor-related area 55b emerges as a core hub of music perception.Communications biology · 2022Pooled it
- Identifying a brain network for musical rhythm: A functional neuroimaging meta-analysis and systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Pooled it
- An ALE meta-analytic review of top-down and bottom-up processing of music in the brain.Scientific reports · 2021Pooled it
- The Influence of Sound-Based Interventions on Motor Behavior After Stroke: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Pooled it
- Music-integrated strength-proprioceptive training improves lower-limb performance and postural balance in adolescents with visual impairment: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Warm-up music and low-dose caffeine enhance the activity profile and psychophysiological responses during simulated combat in female taekwondo athletes.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
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- Functional neuroanatomy of musical object processing in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.Brain communications · 2026Article
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- Cortical Representation of Auditory Selective Attention in a Dichotic Listening Task: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study.Brain topography · 2025Article
- Mapping the brain networks underlying creativity enhancement via aesthetic experience.European journal of medical research · 2025Review
- Pleasurable music activates cerebral µ-opioid receptors: a combined PET-fMRI study.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2025Article
- Sensory Entrained TMS (seTMS) enhances motor cortex plasticity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Implications for the Ergogenic Benefits of Self-Selected Music in Neurological Conditions: A Theoretical Review.Neurology international · 2025Review
- Sensory Entrained TMS (seTMS) Enhances Motor Cortex Excitability.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Topography of Functional Organization of Beat Perception in Human Premotor Cortex: Causal Evidence From a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Study.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Dynamics of Pitch Perception in the Auditory Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Visual congruency of performers' movements enhances vocal music reward through Mu entrainment.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Melodic bridges: music intervention as a catalyst for social skills development in preschool children with autism.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Neural Correlates of Rhythm in Post-Stroke Aphasia.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Several neuroimaging studies have shown that listening to music activates brain regions that reside in the motor system, even when there is no overt movement. However, many of these studies report the activation of varying motor system areas that include the primary motor cortex, supplementary motor area, dorsal and ventral pre-motor areas and parietal regions. In order to examine what specific roles are played by various motor regions during music perception, we used activation likelihood estimation (ALE) to conduct a meta-analysis of neuroimaging literature on passive music listening. After extensive search of the literature, 42 studies were analyzed resulting in a total of 386 unique subjects contributing 694 activation foci in total. As suspected, auditory activations were found in the bilateral superior temporal gyrus, transverse temporal gyrus, insula, pyramis, bilateral precentral gyrus, and bilateral medial frontal gyrus. We also saw the widespread activation of motor networks including left and right lateral premotor cortex, right primary motor cortex, and the left cerebellum. These results suggest a central role of the motor system in music and rhythm perception. We discuss these findings in the context of the Action Simulation for Auditory Prediction (ASAP) model and other predictive coding accounts of brain function.
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