ArticleScientific reports2019
Musical imagery depends upon coordination of auditory and sensorimotor brain activity.
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- Voluntary musical imagery in music practice: contextual meaning, neuroscientific mechanisms and practical applications.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
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- Magnetoencephalography Hyperscanning Evidence of Differing Cognitive Strategies Due to Social Role During Auditory Communication.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Music of Silence: Part I: Responses to Musical Imagery Encode Melodic Expectations and Acoustics.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Tapping Force Encodes Metrical Aspects of Rhythm.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Recent magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies have established that sensorimotor brain rhythms are strongly modulated during mental imagery of musical beat and rhythm, suggesting that motor regions of the brain are important for temporal aspects of musical imagery. The present study examined whether these rhythms also play a role in non-temporal aspects of musical imagery including musical pitch. Brain function was measured with MEG from 19 healthy adults while they performed a validated musical pitch imagery task and two non-imagery control tasks with identical temporal characteristics. A 4-dipole source model probed activity in bilateral auditory and sensorimotor cortices. Significantly greater β-band modulation was found during imagery compared to control tasks of auditory perception and mental arithmetic. Imagery-induced β-modulation showed no significant differences between auditory and sensorimotor regions, which may reflect a tightly coordinated mode of communication between these areas. Directed connectivity analysis in the θ-band revealed that the left sensorimotor region drove left auditory region during imagery onset. These results add to the growing evidence that motor regions of the brain are involved in the top-down generation of musical imagery, and that imagery-like processes may be involved in musical perception.
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