Music

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Learned movements in a left-handed pianist: an f-MRI evaluation.

The spatial arrangement of neuronal sources for digit movement is non somatotopic, and is structured as extensively arranged through different regional cortex. We have functionally examined the cerebro-cortical activation during simple and complex motor ...
R Moretti, P Torre, R M Antonello, M Ukmar, R Longo, A Bava (J Clin Neurosci, 200211)
learned-movements-left-handed-pianist-f-mri-evaluation.asp

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Voxel-based morphometry reveals increased gray matter density in Brocas area in male symphony orchestra musicians.

Brocas area is a major neuroanatomical substrate for spoken language and various musically relevant abilities, including visuospatial and audiospatial localization. Sight reading is a musician-specific visuospatial analysis task, and spatial ability is ...
Vanessa Sluming, Thomas Barrick, Matthew Howard, Enis Cezayirli, Andrew Mayes, Neil Roberts (Neuroimage, 200211)
voxel-based-morphometry-reveals-increased-gray-matter-density-broca-s.asp

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The processing of temporal pitch and melody information in auditory cortex.

An fMRI experiment was performed to identify the main stages of melody processing in the auditory pathway. Spectrally matched sounds that produce no pitch, fixed pitch, or melody were all found to activate Heschls gyrus (HG) and planum temporale (PT). ...
Roy D Patterson, Stefan Uppenkamp, Ingrid S Johnsrude, Timothy D Griffiths (Neuron, 200211)
processing-temporal-pitch-melody-information-auditory-cortex.asp

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Aging, expertise and fine motor movement.

Age-graded decrements in accuracies and maximum speed of fine motor movements observed in numerous experimental studies have nurtured general factor explanations like the assumption of general age-related slowing of central cognitive processes. This ...
Ralf Th Krampe (Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 200211)
aging-expertise-fine-motor-movement.asp

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Relations among musical skills, phonological processing, and early reading ability in preschool children.

We examined the relations among phonological awareness, music perception skills, and early reading skills in a population of 100 4- and 5-year-old children. Music skills were found to correlate significantly with both phonological awareness and reading ...
Sima H Anvari, Laurel J Trainor, Jennifer Woodside, Betty Ann Levy (J Exp Child Psychol, 200210)
relations-musical-skills-phonological-processing-early-reading.asp

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The auditory C-process of spectral profile analysis.

OBJECTIVES: We here review the findings of several experiments, aimed at clarifying the functional role of the human auditory cortex in the processing of complex sound mixtures.METHODS: Long-latency auditory evoked potentials were recorded to abrupt ...
S J Jones, N Perez (Clin Neurophysiol, 200210)
auditory-c-process-spectral-profile-analysis.asp

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Coordination between breathing and mental grouping of pianistic finger movements.

6 pianists (age 22 to 43 years) performed a simple finger exercise at a spontaneously chosen most comfortable tempo on a Yamaha-Disklavier piano. Five versions of the exercise, notated in quarter notes, were presented with different types of meters: (1) ...
Dietrich Ebert, Harald Hefter, Ferdinand Binkofski, Hans-Joachim Freund (Percept Mot Skills, 200210)
coordination-breathing-mental-grouping-pianistic-finger-movements.asp

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Bach speaks: a cortical "language-network" serves the processing of music.

The aim of the present study was the investigation of neural correlates of music processing with fMRI. Chord sequences were presented to the participants, infrequently containing unexpected musical events. These events activated the areas of Broca and ...
Stefan Koelsch, Thomas C Gunter, D Yves v Cramon, Stefan Zysset, Gabriele Lohmann, Angela D Friederici (Neuroimage, 200210)
bach-speaks-cortical-language-network-serves-processing-music.asp

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The goal as process: music and the search for the Self.

This paper explores and compares the processes of music and analysis from the authors experience as a musician, piano teacher and analyst. It explains how the use of music improvisation in analysis (with simple percussion instruments) can powerfully ...
Patricia Skar (J Anal Psychol, 200210)
goal-process-music-search-self.asp

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Early pitch-shift response is active in both steady and dynamic voice pitch control.

When air conducted auditory feedback pitch is experimentally shifted upward or downward during steady phonation, voice pitch changes in response. The first pitch change is an automatic deflection opposite in direction to the feedback shift. It appears to ...
Theresa A Burnett, Charles R Larson (J Acoust Soc Am, 200209)
early-pitch-shift-response-active-steady-dynamic-voice-pitch-control.asp