Music perception and imagery in EEG: Alpha band effects of task and stimulus

Schaefer, Rebecca; Vlek, Rutger; Desain, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.09.007

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“…Such theta activity has been reported in [23], [25] and such alpha is not discussed earlier. As the musical feature is a measure of the rhythmic complexity, our results are in line with previous findings that suggest heighted alpha activity due to increase in task demands [24], specifically while processing complex music [52], [53]. In another study of the ERPs elicited by short piano notes [54], the topographies of the ERPs revealed relevant brain responses in the central, posterior and occipital area along the scalp.…”

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Linking Brain Responses to Naturalistic Music Through Analysis of Ongoing EEG and Stimulus Features

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Alluri

Nandi

et al. 2013

IEEE Trans. Multimedia

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This study proposes a novel approach for the analysis of brain responses in the modality of ongoing EEG elicited by the naturalistic and continuous music stimulus. The 512-second long EEG data (recorded with 64 electrodes) are first decomposed into 64 components by independent component analysis (ICA) for each participant. Then, the spatial maps showing dipolar brain activity are selected in terms of the residual dipole variance through a single dipole model in brain imaging, and clustered into a pre-defined number (estimated by the minimum description length) of clusters. Subsequently, the temporal courses of the EEG theta and alpha oscillations of each component for each cluster are produced and correlated with the temporal courses of tonal and rhythmic features of the music. Using this approach, we found that the extracted temporal courses of the theta and alpha oscillations along central and occipital area of scalp in two of the selected clusters significantly correlated with the musical features representing progressions in the rhythmic content of the stimulus. We suggest that this demonstrates that with the proposed approach, we have managed to discover what kinds of brain responses were elicited when Manuscript a participant was listening continuously to the long piece of naturalistic music.

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Linking Brain Responses to Naturalistic Music Through Analysis of Ongoing EEG and Stimulus Features

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Alluri

Nandi

et al. 2013

IEEE Trans. Multimedia

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“…Images and music are two elements that foster mental imagery (Belk, Ger, & Askegaard, 2003;Campbell, 1987;Schaefer, Desain, & Farquhar, 2013;Schaefer, Vlek, & Desain, 2011) and imagery has been found to be the main source for generating emotions when selecting a location for holidays (Kwortnik & Ross, 2007). The 'non-emotional' version of the site contained no music, carried only neutral images, and was deliberately designed not to convey either positive or negative emotions.…”

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“…The neural activations of music imagination and music perception have also been found to show commonalities, both in terms of regional specificity measured using positron emission tomography (PET) or functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) (cf. Halpern and Zatorre, 1999; Kraemer et al, 2005; Herholz et al, 2012) and in terms of temporal activation patterns measured using magneto-encephalography (MEG) or electro-encephalography (EEG) (Herholz et al, 2008; Schaefer et al, 2009, 2011a,b). Notably, the degree of such shared activation appears to vary with the complexity of the imagined musical stimulus, with more shared activation for simple stimuli than for complex stimuli such as ecologically valid music (Schaefer et al, 2013).…”

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Moving to Music: Effects of Heard and Imagined Musical Cues on Movement-Related Brain Activity

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Roberts

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Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Music is commonly used to facilitate or support movement, and increasingly used in movement rehabilitation. Additionally, there is some evidence to suggest that music imagery, which is reported to lead to brain signatures similar to music perception, may also assist movement. However, it is not yet known whether either imagined or musical cueing changes the way in which the motor system of the human brain is activated during simple movements. Here, functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to compare neural activity during wrist flexions performed to either heard or imagined music with self-pacing of the same movement without any cueing. Focusing specifically on the motor network of the brain, analyses were performed within a mask of BA4, BA6, the basal ganglia (putamen, caudate, and pallidum), the motor nuclei of the thalamus, and the whole cerebellum. Results revealed that moving to music compared with self-paced movement resulted in significantly increased activation in left cerebellum VI. Moving to imagined music led to significantly more activation in pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA) and right globus pallidus, relative to self-paced movement. When the music and imagery cueing conditions were contrasted directly, movements in the music condition showed significantly more activity in left hemisphere cerebellum VII and right hemisphere and vermis of cerebellum IX, while the imagery condition revealed more significant activity in pre-SMA. These results suggest that cueing movement with actual or imagined music impacts upon engagement of motor network regions during the movement, and suggest that heard and imagined cues can modulate movement in subtly different ways. These results may have implications for the applicability of auditory cueing in movement rehabilitation for different patient populations.

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Music perception and imagery in EEG: Alpha band effects of task and stimulus

Cited by 89 publications

References 30 publications

Linking Brain Responses to Naturalistic Music Through Analysis of Ongoing EEG and Stimulus Features

Linking Brain Responses to Naturalistic Music Through Analysis of Ongoing EEG and Stimulus Features

The contribution of website design to the generation of tourist destination image: The moderating effect of involvement

Moving to Music: Effects of Heard and Imagined Musical Cues on Movement-Related Brain Activity

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