ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2021
The Microstructural Plasticity of the Arcuate Fasciculus Undergirds Improved Speech in Noise Perception in Musicians.
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- Unlocking the musical brain: A proof-of-concept study on playing the piano in MRI scanner with naturalistic stimuli.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Successful aging of musicians: Preservation of sensorimotor regions aids audiovisual speech-in-noise perception.Science advances · 2023Article
- A narrative review of the anatomy and function of the white matter tracts in language production and comprehension.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Review
- Sex Differences are Reflected in Microstructural White Matter Alterations of Musical Sophistication: A Diffusion MRI Study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Decoding everyday levels of musical training from subcortical white-matter architecture.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Musical training is thought to be related to improved language skills, for example, understanding speech in background noise. Although studies have found that musicians and nonmusicians differed in morphology of bilateral arcuate fasciculus (AF), none has associated such white matter features with speech-in-noise (SIN) perception. Here, we tested both SIN and the diffusivity of bilateral AF segments in musicians and nonmusicians using diffusion tensor imaging. Compared with nonmusicians, musicians had higher fractional anisotropy (FA) in the right direct AF and lower radial diffusivity in the left anterior AF, which correlated with SIN performance. The FA-based laterality index showed stronger right lateralization of the direct AF and stronger left lateralization of the posterior AF in musicians than nonmusicians, with the posterior AF laterality predicting SIN accuracy. Furthermore, hemodynamic activity in right superior temporal gyrus obtained during a SIN task played a full mediation role in explaining the contribution of the right direct AF diffusivity on SIN performance, which therefore links training-related white matter plasticity, brain hemodynamics, and speech perception ability. Our findings provide direct evidence that differential microstructural plasticity of bilateral AF segments may serve as a neural foundation of the cross-domain transfer effect of musical experience to speech perception amid competing noise.
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