SynthesisNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2022
Identifying a brain network for musical rhythm: A functional neuroimaging meta-analysis and systematic review.
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- Clinical and mechanistic responses to a music-based intervention for pain in adults with irritable bowel syndrome: Protocol for a single-arm pilot study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
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- Neural Representations and Functional Connections Underlie Subjective Positive Affect.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- The sound of longevity: music and technology for healthy ageing.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2026Review
- Musicality is Preserved in Neurodegeneration.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2026Review
- Polygenic Associations Between Motor Behavior, Neuromotor Traits, and Active Music Engagement in Four Cohorts.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- From Finger Taps to Footsteps: Gait as a Model for Investigating and Training Rhythmic Abilities.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- Rhythm Processing Across Development: Origins, Links to Language Processing, and Perspectives for Intervention.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- GWAS of Active Music Engagement Frequency in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.Research square · 2026Article
- Beyond fixed beats: adaptive musical entrainment for precision neurorehabilitation in neurodegenerative disorders.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2026Article
- Discriminative compensatory activation during auditory beat perception in Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Neural ensembles for music production recruit more language instruments as rhythmic complexity increases.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Neural Representation of Episodic Time.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Neural encoding of auditory rhythm beyond cortical auditory areas before the age of term.iScience · 2025Article
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Abstract
We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 30 functional magnetic resonance imaging studies investigating processing of musical rhythms in neurotypical adults. First, we identified a general network for musical rhythm, encompassing all relevant sensory and motor processes (Beat-based, rest baseline, 12 contrasts) which revealed a large network involving auditory and motor regions. This network included the bilateral superior temporal cortices, supplementary motor area (SMA), putamen, and cerebellum. Second, we identified more precise loci for beat-based musical rhythms (Beat-based, audio-motor control, 8 contrasts) in the bilateral putamen. Third, we identified regions modulated by beat based rhythmic complexity (Complexity, 16 contrasts) which included the bilateral SMA-proper/pre-SMA, cerebellum, inferior parietal regions, and right temporal areas. This meta-analysis suggests that musical rhythm is largely represented in a bilateral cortico-subcortical network. Our findings align with existing theoretical frameworks about auditory-motor coupling to a musical beat and provide a foundation for studying how the neural bases of musical rhythm may overlap with other cognitive domains.
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