Music

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Effects of musical expertise on the early right anterior negativity: an event-related brain potential study.

Event-related brain potentials in response to harmonically inappropriate chords were compared for musical experts and novices. Similar to previous studies, these chords elicited an early right anterior negativity (ERAN). The amplitude of the ERAN was ...
Stefan Koelsch, Björn-Helmer Schmidt, Julia Kansok (Psychophysiology, 200209)
effects-musical-expertise-early-right-anterior-negativity-event.asp

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The neural networks of music.

Recent neuropsychological, transcranial Doppler sonographic, positron emission tomographic and functional nuclear magnetic resonance studies have indicated that musical perception is not dependent on the right hemisphere but on neural networks ...
E Baeck (Eur J Neurol, 200209)
neural-networks-music.asp

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Event-related skin conductance responses to musical emotions in humans.

While the reasons underlying musical emotions are unclear, music is nevertheless a powerful elicitor of emotion, and as such, may induce autonomic nervous system responses. One typical measure of this neural pathway is the skin conductance response ...
Stéphanie Khalfa, Peretz Isabelle, Blondin Jean-Pierre, Robert Manon (Neurosci Lett, 200208)
event-related-skin-conductance-responses-musical-emotions-humans.asp

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Brain specialization for music.

Music, like language, is a universal and specific trait to humans. Similarly, music appreciation, like language comprehension, appears to be the product of a dedicated brain organization. Support for the existence of music-specific neural networks is ...
Isabelle Peretz (Neuroscientist, 200208)
brain-specialization-music.asp

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Cortical systems associated with covert music rehearsal.

Musical representation and overt music production are necessarily complex cognitive phenomena. While overt musical performance may be observed and studied, the act of performance itself necessarily skews results toward the importance of primary ...
Frederick J P Langheim, Joseph H Callicott, Venkata S Mattay, Jeff H Duyn, Daniel R Weinberger (Neuroimage, 200208)
cortical-systems-associated-covert-music-rehearsal.asp

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Assessment of fine motor skill in musicians and nonmusicians: differences in timing versus sequence accuracy in a bimanual fingering task.

While professional musicians are generally considered to possess better control of finger movements than nonmusicians, relatively few reports have experimentally addressed the nature of this discrepancy in fine motor skills. For example, it is unknown ...
Anthony E Kincaid, Scott Duncan, Samuel A Scott (Percept Mot Skills, 200208)
assessment-fine-motor-skill-musicians-nonmusicians-differences-timing.asp

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On the limits of anisochrony in pulse attribution.

Pulse is the subjective experience of isochrony, which is typically elicited by series of sensory events with close to isochronous spacing, as is common in music and poetry. We measured the amount of anisochrony in a 10-event sequence with 570- to 630-ms ...
Guy Madison, Björn Merker (Psychol Res, 200208)
limits-anisochrony-pulse-attribution.asp

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Morphology of Heschls gyrus reflects enhanced activation in the auditory cortex of musicians.

Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we compared the processing of sinusoidal tones in the auditory cortex of 12 non-musicians, 12 professional musicians and 13 amateur musicians. We found neurophysiological and anatomical differences between groups. In ...
Peter Schneider, Michael Scherg, H Günter Dosch, Hans J Specht, Alexander Gutschalk, André Rupp (Nat Neurosci, 200207)
morphology-heschl-s-gyrus-reflects-enhanced-activation-auditory.asp

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Electric brain responses to inappropriate harmonies during listening to expressive music.

OBJECTIVES: Recent studies with event-related brain potentials (ERPs) investigating music processing found (early) negativities with right-hemispheric predominance as a response to inappropriate harmonies within sequences of chords. The stimuli used in ...
Stefan Koelsch, Juul Mulder (Clin Neurophysiol, 200206)
electric-brain-responses-inappropriate-harmonies-listening-expressive.asp

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Minds ear in a musician: where and when in the brain.

The temporospatial pattern of brain activity during auditory imagery was studied using magnetoencephalography. Trained musicians were presented with visual notes and instructed to imagine the corresponding sounds. Brain activity specific to the auditory ...
Martin Schürmann, Tommi Raij, Nobuya Fujiki, Riitta Hari (Neuroimage, 200206)
mind-s-ear-musician-where-brain.asp