ArticleBrain sciences2024
Understanding the Effect of Listening to Music, Playing Music, and Singing on Brain Function: A Scoping Review of fNIRS Studies.
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- Global trends, research hotspots, and clinical evidence mapping of music therapy interventions for cognitive impairment: a bibliometric and visualization analysis from 2006 to 2026.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Prenatal attachment interventions: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Neural Mechanism of the Emotional Process During the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music: A Functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy Study.Brain topography · 2026Article
- ICT training with wearable devices to enhance emotional communication and musicality in vocal education.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The Influence of Music on Mental Health Through Neuroplasticity: Mechanisms, Clinical Implications, and Contextual Perspectives.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Predicting artificial neural network representations to learn recognition model for music identification from brain recordings.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Method for Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to Explore Music-Induced Brain Activation in Orchestral Musicians in Concert.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Music is integrated into daily life when listening to it, playing it, and singing, uniquely modulating brain activity. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), celebrated for its ecological validity, has been used to elucidate this music-brain interaction. This scoping review synthesizes 22 empirical studies using fNIRS to explore the intricate relationship between music and brain function. This synthesis of existing evidence reveals that diverse musical activities, such as listening to music, singing, and playing instruments, evoke unique brain responses influenced by individual traits and musical attributes. A further analysis identifies five key themes, including the effect of passive and active music experiences on relevant human brain areas, lateralization in music perception, individual variations in neural responses, neural synchronization in musical performance, and new insights fNIRS has revealed in these lines of research. While this review highlights the limited focus on specific brain regions and the lack of comparative analyses between musicians and non-musicians, it emphasizes the need for future research to investigate the complex interplay between music and the human brain.
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