SynthesisScientific reports2021
An ALE meta-analytic review of top-down and bottom-up processing of music in the brain.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Economic value in the Brain: A meta-analysis of willingness-to-pay using the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak auction.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- The rediscovered motor-related area 55b emerges as a core hub of music perception.Communications biology · 2022Pooled it
- An ALE meta-analytic review of musical expertise.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
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- BROAD-NESS Uncovers Dual-Stream Mechanisms Underlying Predictive Coding in Auditory Memory Networks.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 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
- Discrimination of time intervals in musicians and non-musicians: A multimodal approach.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- EEG analysis of speaking and quiet states during different emotional music stimuli.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Melodic bridges: music intervention as a catalyst for social skills development in preschool children with autism.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
- The Influence of Music Reading on Spatial Working Memory and Self-Assessment Accuracy.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Decoding reveals the neural representation of perceived and imagined musical sounds.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Decoding reveals the neural representation of perceived and imagined musical sounds.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Spatiotemporal whole-brain activity and functional connectivity of melodies recognition.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Choir singing is associated with enhanced structural connectivity across the adult lifespan.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- The transformative power of music: Insights into neuroplasticity, health, and disease.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Review
- Dual-Process Theory of Thought and Inhibitory Control: An ALE Meta-Analysis.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Neural correlates of musical timbre: an ALE meta-analysis of neuroimaging data.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Resting-state functional connectivity in an auditory network differs between aspiring professional and amateur musicians and correlates with performance.Brain structure & function · 2023Article
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Abstract
A remarkable feature of the human brain is its ability to integrate information from the environment with internally generated content. The integration of top-down and bottom-up processes during complex multi-modal human activities, however, is yet to be fully understood. Music provides an excellent model for understanding this since music listening leads to the urge to move, and music making entails both playing and listening at the same time (i.e., audio-motor coupling). Here, we conducted activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analyses of 130 neuroimaging studies of music perception, production and imagery, with 2660 foci, 139 experiments, and 2516 participants. We found that music perception and production rely on auditory cortices and sensorimotor cortices, while music imagery recruits distinct parietal regions. This indicates that the brain requires different structures to process similar information which is made available either by an interaction with the environment (i.e., bottom-up) or by internally generated content (i.e., top-down).
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