Functional anatomy of pitch memory—an fMRI study with sparse temporal sampling

Gaab, Nadine; Gaser, Christian; Zaehle, Tino; Jäncke, Lutz; Schlaug, Gottfried

doi:10.1016/s1053-8119(03)00224-6

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“…Similarly, the STG seems to be important in short-term auditory retention (Zatorre & Samson, 1991;Gaab et al, 2003;Zatorre et al, 1994;Schulze et al, 2011), but we did not find this region active.…”

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“…From the subcomponent regions specific to the so called "tonal loop" in musicians (which included left cuneus, right globus pallidus, right caudate nucleus, and left cerebellum), we identified in our study the right caudate region and left cerebellum (we did find activation in the left globus pallidus, instead of its right-sided homologue). The involvement of the planum temporale and superior marginal gyrus (SMG) has been also reported in the literature (Gaab, Gaser, Zaehle, Jancke, & Schlaug, 2003;Zatorre et al, 1994) in pitch WM memory tasks, but…”

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Dynamics of brain activity underlying working memory for music in a naturalistic condition

Burunat

Alluri

Toiviainen

et al. 2014

Cortex

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Sivumäärä -Number of pages 70Tiivistelmä -Abstract Working memory (WM) is at the core of any cognitive function as it is necessary for the integration of information over time. Despite WM's critical role in high-level cognitive functions, its implementation in the neural tissue is poorly understood. Preliminary studies on auditory WM show differences between linguistic and musical memory, leading to the speculation of specific neural networks encoding memory for music. Moreover, in neuroscience WM has not been studied in naturalistic listening conditions but rather in artificial settings (e.g., n-back and Sternberg tasks). Western tonal music provides naturally occurring motivic repetition and variation, recognizable units serving as WM trigger, thus allowing us to study the phenomenon of motif-tracking in the context of real music. Adopting a modern tango as stimulus, behavioural methods were used to identify the stimulus motifs and build a time-course predictor of WM neural responses. This predictor was then correlated with the participants' functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signal obtained during a continuous listening condition. Neural correlates related to the sensory processing of a set of musical features were filtered out from the brain responses to music to aid in the exclusive recruitment of executive processes of music-related WM. Correlational analysis revealed a widely distributed network of cortical and subcortical areas, predominantly right-lateralized, responding to the WM condition, including ventral and dorsal areas in the prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia, and limbic areas. Significant subcortical processing areas, active in response to the WM condition, were pruned with the removal of the acoustic content, suggesting these music-related perceptual processing areas might aid in the encoding and retrieval of WM. The pattern of dispersed neural activity indicates WM to emerge coherently from the integration of distributed neural activity spread out over different brain subsystems (motoric-, cognitive-and sensory-related areas of the brain).Asiasanat -Keywords working memory; cognitive neuroscience; music; musical motifs; functional magnetic resonance imaging ( Lashley was attempting to identify the locus of memory within the cortex, and, to do so, first trained rats to run mazes, and then removed various cortical regions. He allowed the animals to recover and tested the retention of the maze-running skills. To his surprise it was not possible to find a particular region corresponding to the ability to remember the way through a maze. Instead all the rats which had had cortex regions removed suffered some kind of impairment, and the extent of the impairment was roughly proportional to the amount of cortex taken off. Removing cortex damaged the motor and sensory capacities of the animals, and they would limp, hop, roll, or stagger, but somehow they always managed to traverse the maze. So far as memory 'as concerned, the cortex appeared to be equipotential, that is, with all regions of eq...

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Dynamics of brain activity underlying working memory for music in a naturalistic condition

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Alluri

Toiviainen

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Cortex

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“…2B and Table S1; see also Table S2), demonstrating that sounds during NREM sleep are still processed in auditory areas. Significant additional responses were found in a set of cortical and subcortical areas, in the pons, cerebellum, middle frontal gyrus, precuneus, and posterior cingulate gyrus-all areas known to respond to auditory stimuli (5,19,20). In contrast, at the same statistical threshold (P < 0.05 corrected), no significant response to TS was found either in the thalamus or in the Heschl's gyri, but rather in a small area in the caudal aspect of the inferior colliculus ( Fig.…”

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Interplay between spontaneous and induced brain activity during human non-rapid eye movement sleep

Dang‐Vu

Bonjean

Schabus

et al. 2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Humans are less responsive to the surrounding environment during sleep. However, the extent to which the human brain responds to external stimuli during sleep is uncertain. We used simultaneous EEG and functional MRI to characterize brain responses to tones during wakefulness and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Sounds during wakefulness elicited responses in the thalamus and primary auditory cortex. These responses persisted in NREM sleep, except throughout spindles, during which they became less consistent. When sounds induced a K complex, activity in the auditory cortex was enhanced and responses in distant frontal areas were elicited, similar to the stereotypical pattern associated with slow oscillations. These data show that sound processing during NREM sleep is constrained by fundamental brain oscillatory modes (slow oscillations and spindles), which result in a complex interplay between spontaneous and induced brain activity. The distortion of sensory information at the thalamic level, especially during spindles, functionally isolates the cortex from the environment and might provide unique conditions favorable for off-line memory processing. I t is commonly believed that during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, the brain is isolated from the environment, based on an increase in the sensory threshold observed in sleeping individuals, and indirectly from the inability to remember the content of external stimuli delivered during sleep (1). However, a number of studies, ranging from single unit recordings in animals (2, 3) to human EEG (4) and neuroimaging (5) experiments, demonstrate the persistence of brain responses to sensory stimulations during NREM sleep, suggesting that the brain can still process external stimuli during NREM sleep.In fact, the transmission of sensory information during NREM sleep is thought to be selectively reduced during sleep spindles (6, 7). Sleep spindles-a hallmark of light NREM sleep [mostly stage 2 (S2) sleep]-are characterized in humans by waxing and waning 11-to 15-Hz oscillations lasting 0.5-3 s (8). They are generated by the thalamus, which acts as a pacemaker (9, 10), and result from reciprocal rhythmic interactions between reticular (nRT) and thalamo-cortical (TC) cells. Induced by a recurrent inhibition from nRT cells, postinhibitory rebound spike bursts in TC cells entrain cortical populations in spindle oscillations (11). In turn, a cortico-thalamic feedback synchronizes spindle oscillations in widespread thalamic territories (12). It has been suggested that synaptic blockade in the thalamus filters out sensory transmissions to the forebrain during sleep spindles (13). Accordingly, in humans, modifications of auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) recorded on the scalp have been interpreted as reflecting the thalamic inhibition of information processing during spindles, although direct evidence supporting this hypothesis is still lacking (14, 15).To assess this hypothesis, we used simultaneous EEG/functional MRI (fMRI) recordings to better characterize regio...

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“…While tonotopy in superior temporal cortex has been the subject of several studies [Da Costa et al, 2011; Dick et al, 2012; Formisano et al, 2003; Humphries et al, 2010; Langers and Van Dijk, 2012; Talavage et al, 2000, 2004] there is virtually no literature on tonotopy in human frontal cortex. There is, by contrast, a wealth of neuroimaging studies providing evidence that the human frontal lobe is active during general auditory tasks [Alain et al, 2001; Arnott et al, 2004; Gaab et al, 2003; Kiehl et al, 2001; Koelsch et al, 2009; Muller et al, 2001; Platel et al, 1997; Rämä et al, 2004]. Neurophysiological and neuroanatomical findings in non‐human primates show that both dorsolateral and ventral PFC is reciprocally interconnected with auditory regions in the temporal cortex [Hackett et al, 1999; Plakke and Romanski, 2014; Romanski et al, 1999].…”

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Areas activated during naturalistic reading comprehension overlap topological visual, auditory, and somatotomotor maps

Sood

Sereno

2016

Human Brain Mapping

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Cortical mapping techniques using fMRI have been instrumental in identifying the boundaries of topological (neighbor‐preserving) maps in early sensory areas. The presence of topological maps beyond early sensory areas raises the possibility that they might play a significant role in other cognitive systems, and that topological mapping might help to delineate areas involved in higher cognitive processes. In this study, we combine surface‐based visual, auditory, and somatomotor mapping methods with a naturalistic reading comprehension task in the same group of subjects to provide a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the cortical overlap between sensory‐motor maps in all major sensory modalities, and reading processing regions. Our results suggest that cortical activation during naturalistic reading comprehension overlaps more extensively with topological sensory‐motor maps than has been heretofore appreciated. Reading activation in regions adjacent to occipital lobe and inferior parietal lobe almost completely overlaps visual maps, whereas a significant portion of frontal activation for reading in dorsolateral and ventral prefrontal cortex overlaps both visual and auditory maps. Even classical language regions in superior temporal cortex are partially overlapped by topological visual and auditory maps. By contrast, the main overlap with somatomotor maps is restricted to a small region on the anterior bank of the central sulcus near the border between the face and hand representations of M‐I. Hum Brain Mapp 37:2784–2810, 2016. © 2016 The Authors Human Brain Mapping Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Functional anatomy of pitch memory—an fMRI study with sparse temporal sampling

Cited by 301 publications

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Dynamics of brain activity underlying working memory for music in a naturalistic condition

Dynamics of brain activity underlying working memory for music in a naturalistic condition

Interplay between spontaneous and induced brain activity during human non-rapid eye movement sleep

Areas activated during naturalistic reading comprehension overlap topological visual, auditory, and somatotomotor maps

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