Playing piano in the mind—an fMRI study on music imagery and performance in pianists

Meister, Ingo G.; Krings, Timo; Foltys, Henrik; Boroojerdi, Babak; Müller, Mira; Töpper, Rudolf; Thron, A.

doi:10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2003.12.005

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“…Consistent with previous functional imaging studies on the production of manual gestures including piano-playing and gesture imitation (Meister et al, 2004;Peigneux et al, 2004;Makuuchi et al, 2005), the present study found a region in the left aIPS which showed an effector bias in the opposite direction, responding significantly more during the covert play than covert hum condition. This finding is consistent with the idea that the aIPS contains a system that functions as a sensory-motor interface for the manual effectors (Colby & Goldberg, 1999;Culham & Kanwisher, 2001).…”

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confidence: 92%

“…This finding is consistent with the idea that the aIPS contains a system that functions as a sensory-motor interface for the manual effectors (Colby & Goldberg, 1999;Culham & Kanwisher, 2001). A music study investigating musical imagery vs. performance found a similar region active during both piano-playing conditions, using a visual stimulus to induce playing instead of an aurally-presented stimulus and suggested its role in visuomotor transformations (Meister et al, 2004). Further, a study by Bangert et al (2006) found BA40 (emcompassing aIPS) active during a conjunction analysis of a musical acoustic task and a motion-related task of piano-playing.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Our assumption is that rehearsal related activity is tapping motor-articulatory networks (Meister et al, 2004). The theoretical motivation for focusing on regions that respond both to sensory and motor phases of the task these regions are likely to be good candidates for performing sensory-motor integration.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As a secondary hypothesis, we postulated that the use of manual effectors in covertly playing the melody will activate PPC, as this region has been implicated in several manual tasks including visually-guided reaching, apraxic assessments, and piano-playing (Burnod et al, 1999;Haslinger et al, 2005;Makuuchi, Kaminaga, & Sugishita, 2005;Meister et al, 2004).…”

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A parietal–temporal sensory–motor integration area for the human vocal tract: Evidence from an fMRI study of skilled musicians

Hickok

2008

Neuropsychologia

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Several sensory-motor integration regions have been identified in parietal cortex, which appear to be organized around motor-effectors (e.g., eyes, hands). We investigated whether a sensory-motor integration area might exist for the human vocal tract. Speech requires extensive sensory-motor integration, as does other abilities such as vocal musical skills. Recent work found a posterior region, area Spt, has both sensory (auditory) and motor response properties (for both speech and tonal stimuli). Brain activity of skilled pianists was measured with fMRI while they listened to a novel melody and either covertly hummed the melody (vocal tract effectors) or covert played the melody on a piano (manual effectors). Activity in area Spt was significantly higher for the covert hum versus covert play condition. A region in the anterior IPS (aIPS) showed the reverse pattern, suggesting its involvement in sensory-manual transformations. This finding suggests that area Spt is a sensorymotor integration area for vocal tract gestures for, at least, speech and music.

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A parietal–temporal sensory–motor integration area for the human vocal tract: Evidence from an fMRI study of skilled musicians

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2008

Neuropsychologia

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“…Such mental representations of movement without analogous body movement (Guillot & Collet, 2005) occur regularly and spontaneously, especially in states with naturally high motor cortical activation, such as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (Desseilles et al, 2011, Dresler et al, 2011, Porte and Hobson, 1996and Speth et al, 2013, and have been associated with motor learning and rehearsal (Hobson, 2009 andWalker et al, 2002). Motor simulation tasks can also be purposefully used in waking to benefit specific motor performances (Arora et al, 2011, Driskell et al, 1994, Jackson et al, 2006, Meister et al, 2004and Schuster et al, 2011.…”

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Transcranial direct current stimulation of the motor cortex in waking resting state induces motor imagery

Speth

Harley

2015

Consciousness and Cognition

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This study investigates if anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of areas above the motor cortex (C3) influences spontaneous motor imagery experienced in the waking resting state. A randomized triple-blinded design was used, combining neurophysiological techniques with tools of quantitative mentation report analysis from cognitive linguistics. The results indicate that while spontaneous motor imagery rarely occurs under sham stimulation, general and athletic motor imagery (classified as athletic disciplines), is induced by anodal tDCS. This insight may have implications beyond basic consciousness research. Motor imagery and corresponding motor cortical activation have been shown to benefit later motor performance. Electrophysiological manipulations of motor imagery could in the long run be used for rehabilitative tDCS protocols benefitting temporarily immobile clinical patients who cannot perform specific motor imagery tasks -such as dementia patients, infants with developmental and motor disorders, and coma patients.

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It happens because I'm watching it: Observing an uncertain event can affect subjective probability judgments

Attari

Chatterjee

Cabano

2021

Behavioral Decision Making

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A longstanding body of research has investigated various factors that bias subjective probability judgments. The current research explores a novel bias in judgments of probability-that observing an event affects probability estimation of the event's outcome. Our findings from multiple online and laboratory experiments demonstrate that individuals overestimate the likelihood of a positive outcome occurring when they observe (vs. do not observe) the uncertain event unfolding in front of them. Study 1 explores the effect of watching on probability estimation using a random card draw conducted in an auditorium. Studies 2 and 3 use an online procedure to further demonstrate the effect. In Study 4 we manipulated an illusory sense of control followed by a football game scenario and in Study 5 we used a live versus previously recorded urn game to further investigate the watching effect. We suggest that illusion of control, wishful thinking, and availability are among the possible explanations for this effect.

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Playing piano in the mind—an fMRI study on music imagery and performance in pianists

Cited by 245 publications

References 36 publications

A parietal–temporal sensory–motor integration area for the human vocal tract: Evidence from an fMRI study of skilled musicians

A parietal–temporal sensory–motor integration area for the human vocal tract: Evidence from an fMRI study of skilled musicians

Transcranial direct current stimulation of the motor cortex in waking resting state induces motor imagery

It happens because I'm watching it: Observing an uncertain event can affect subjective probability judgments

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