ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2021
Musical Expertise Shapes Functional and Structural Brain Networks Independent of Absolute Pitch Ability.
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- Conceptual coherence but methodological mayhem: A systematic review of absolute pitch phenotyping.Behavior research methods · 2025Pooled it
- Expertise-driven differences in drummers' wrist-muscle motor unit behaviour.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Can Hobbies Shape Fine Motor Skills Development in First-Year Dental and Oral Health Students?European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe · 2026Article
- Brain structural morphometry in non-musicians with superior pitch identification ability.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The Tuned Cortex: Convergent Expertise-Related Structural and Functional Remodeling across the Adult Lifespan.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Expertise-Dependent Brain Network Organization During Music Perception.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Musicians' brains at rest: multilayer network analysis of magnetoencephalography data.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Music as a social instrument: a brief historical and conceptual perspective.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Review
- Music training and language learning improve verbal memory performance but do not change white matter characteristics of the splenium: a longitudinal DTI study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Music reward sensitivity is associated with greater information transfer capacity within dorsal and motor white matter networks in musicians.Brain structure & function · 2024Article
- Compensation or Preservation? Different Roles of Functional Lateralization in Speech Perception of Older Non-musicians and Musicians.Neuroscience bulletin · 2024Article
- Operatic voices engage the default mode network in professional opera singers.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Musicianship and Prominence of Interhemispheric Connectivity Determine Two Different Pathways to Atypical Language Dominance.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Gaming expertise induces meso‑scale brain plasticity and efficiency mechanisms as revealed by whole-brain modeling.NeuroImage · 2024Article
- Short communication: Lifetime musical activity and resting-state functional connectivity in cognitive networks.PloS one · 2024Article
- Resting-state functional connectivity in an auditory network differs between aspiring professional and amateur musicians and correlates with performance.Brain structure & function · 2023Article
- Increased functional connectivity in the right dorsal auditory stream after a full year of piano training in healthy older adults.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Musician Conserved Absolute Pitch Ability Despite a Right Parietal Subcortical Hemorrhage.Cureus · 2023Article
- Long-term musical training induces white matter plasticity in emotion and language networks.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Sounds familiar(?): Expertise with specific musical genres modulates timing perception and micro-level synchronization to auditory stimuli.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Professional musicians are a popular model for investigating experience-dependent plasticity in human large-scale brain networks. A minority of musicians possess absolute pitch, the ability to name a tone without reference. The study of absolute pitch musicians provides insights into how a very specific talent is reflected in brain networks. Previous studies of the effects of musicianship and absolute pitch on large-scale brain networks have yielded highly heterogeneous findings regarding the localization and direction of the effects. This heterogeneity was likely influenced by small samples and vastly different methodological approaches. Here, we conducted a comprehensive multimodal assessment of effects of musicianship and absolute pitch on intrinsic functional and structural connectivity using a variety of commonly used and state-of-the-art multivariate methods in the largest sample to date (
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