Music

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Communication of emotions in vocal expression and music performance: different channels, same code?

Many authors have speculated about a close relationship between vocal expression of emotions and musical expression of emotions. but evidence bearing on this relationship has unfortunately been lacking. This review of 104 studies of vocal expression and ...
Patrik N Juslin, Petri Laukka (Psychol Bull, 200309)
communication-emotions-vocal-expression-music-performance-different.asp

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The effect of musical training on music processing: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in humans.

Previous studies have demonstrated changes in neuronal activity in trained musicians relative to controls while performing various music processing tasks. In this study the neural correlates of the effect of music training on two aspects of music ...
Vincent J Schmithorst, Scott K Holland (Neurosci Lett, 200309)
effect-musical-training-music-processing-functional-magnetic.asp

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The developmental origins of musicality.

The study of musical abilities and activities in infancy has the potential to shed light on musical biases or dispositions that are rooted in nature rather than nurture. The available evidence indicates that infants are sensitive to a number of sound ...
Sandra E Trehub (Nat Neurosci, 200307)
developmental-origins-musicality.asp

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The "ticktock" of our internal clock: direct brain evidence of subjective accents in isochronous sequences.

The phenomenon commonly known as subjective accenting refers to the fact that identical sound events within purely isochronous sequences are perceived as unequal. Although subjective accenting has been extensively explored using behavioral methods, no ...
Renaud Brochard, Donna Abecasis, Doug Potter, Richard Ragot, Carolyn Drake (Psychol Sci, 200307)
ticktock-internal-clock-direct-brain-evidence-subjective-accents.asp

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Ecological validity of neurofeedback: modulation of slow wave EEG enhances musical performance.

Biofeedback-assisted modulation of electrocortical activity has been established to have intrinsic clinical benefits and has been shown to improve cognitive performance in healthy humans. In order to further investigate the pedagogic relevance of ...
Tobias Egner, John H Gruzelier (Neuroreport, 200307)
ecological-validity-neurofeedback-modulation-slow-wave-eeg-enhances.asp

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The evolution of the music faculty: a comparative perspective.

We propose a theoretical framework for exploring the evolution of the music faculty from a comparative perspective. This framework addresses questions of phylogeny, adaptive function, innate biases and perceptual mechanisms. We argue that comparative ...
Marc D Hauser, Josh McDermott (Nat Neurosci, 200307)
evolution-music-faculty-comparative-perspective.asp

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Swinging in the brain: shared neural substrates for behaviors related to sequencing and music.

Music consists of precisely patterned sequences of both movement and sound that engage the mind in a multitude of experiences. We move in response to music and we move in order to make music. Because of the intimate coupling between perception and ...
Petr Janata, Scott T Grafton (Nat Neurosci, 200307)
swinging-brain-shared-neural-substrates-behaviors-related-sequencing.asp

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Modularity of music processing.

The music faculty is not a monolithic entity that a person either has or does not. Rather, it comprises a set of neurally isolable processing components, each having the potential to be specialized for music. Here we propose a functional architecture for ...
Isabelle Peretz, Max Coltheart (Nat Neurosci, 200307)
modularity-music-processing.asp

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Enhancement of neuroplastic P2 and N1c auditory evoked potentials in musicians.

P2 and N1c components of the auditory evoked potential (AEP) have been shown to be sensitive to remodeling of the auditory cortex by training at pitch discrimination in nonmusician subjects. Here, we investigated whether these neuroplastic components of ...
Antoine Shahin, Daniel J Bosnyak, Laurel J Trainor, Larry E Roberts (J Neurosci, 200307)
enhancement-neuroplastic-p-n-c-auditory-evoked-potentials-musicians.asp

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Children processing music: electric brain responses reveal musical competence and gender differences.

Numerous studies investigated physiological correlates of the processing of musical information in adults. How these correlates develop during childhood is poorly understood. In the present study, we measured event-related electric brain potentials ...
Stefan Koelsch, Tobias Grossmann, Thomas C Gunter, Anja Hahne, Erich Schröger, Angela D Friederici (J Cogn Neurosci, 200307)
children-processing-music-electric-brain-responses-reveal-musical.asp