Shared networks for auditory and motor processing in professional pianists: Evidence from fMRI conjunction

Bangert, Marc; Peschel, Thomas; Schlaug, Gottfried; Rotte, Michael; Drescher, Dieter; Hinrichs, Hermann; Heinze, Hans‐Jochen; Altenmüller, Eckart

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.10.044

Cited by 503 publications

(434 citation statements)

References 43 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

365

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…3B). These findings point to the heart of the action-listening mechanism and are in keeping with previous evidence for increased motor excitability (D'Ausilio et al, 2006) and premotor activity (Lotze et al, 2003;Bangert et al, 2006a) during listening to a rehearsed musical piece. Furthermore, our findings may be analogous to studies in the visuomotor domain, in which the mirror neuron system was involved only when the observed action was part of the observer's motor repertoire, such as in the case of dancers watching movements from their own dance style (but not from other styles) (Calvo-Merino et al, 2005) or in the case of humans watching biting actions (but not barking) (Buccino et al, 2004b).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Action Representation of Sound: Audiomotor Recognition Network While Listening to Newly Acquired Actions

Lahav¹,

Saltzman²,

Schlaug³

2007

J. Neurosci.

527

438

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The discovery of audiovisual mirror neurons in monkeys gave rise to the hypothesis that premotor areas are inherently involved not only when observing actions but also when listening to action-related sound. However, the whole-brain functional formation underlying such "action-listening" is not fully understood. In addition, previous studies in humans have focused mostly on relatively simple and overexperienced everyday actions, such as hand clapping or door knocking. Here we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to ask whether the human action-recognition system responds to sounds found in a more complex sequence of newly acquired actions. To address this, we chose a piece of music as a model set of acoustically presentable actions and trained non-musicians to play it by ear. We then monitored brain activity in subjects while they listened to the newly acquired piece. Although subjects listened to the music without performing any movements, activation was found bilaterally in the frontoparietal motor-related network (including Broca's area, the premotor region, the intraparietal sulcus, and the inferior parietal region), consistent with neural circuits that have been associated with action observations, and may constitute the human mirror neuron system. Presentation of the practiced notes in a different order activated the network to a much lesser degree, whereas listening to an equally familiar but motorically unknown music did not activate this network. These findings support the hypothesis of a "hearing-doing" system that is highly dependent on the individual's motor repertoire, gets established rapidly, and consists of Broca's area as its hub.

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Action Representation of Sound: Audiomotor Recognition Network While Listening to Newly Acquired Actions

Lahav¹,

Saltzman²,

Schlaug³

2007

J. Neurosci.

527

438

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This predominantly left hemisphere activation has also been found in other musical studies, but again, may simply be due to methodological idiosyncrasies (Bangert et al, 2006).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%

“…Although we instructed participants to avoid covert humming in the covert play condition and vice versa, this may have been impossible to prevent altogether. A recent study showing greater activation in posterior inferior parietal cortex among musicians compared to non-musicians during passive auditory stimulation, supports this speculation (Bangert et al, 2006). It appears however, that our instructions were able to bias the activation patterns in these circuits sufficiently well to detect the double-dissociation.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 75%

“…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. These findings along with the present findings suggest that aIPS (a sub region of BA40) may be involved in both visuo-and auditory-tomanual transformations, and that this region is recruited for imagined and overt play in musicians.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 94%

See 1 more Smart Citation

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

Hickok

2008

Neuropsychologia

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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.

show abstract

“…Janata and Grafton [2003] observed that ''the sensory experience of musical patterns is intimately coupled with action,'' and speech sounds have been shown to selectively activate distinct motor regions in the precentral gyrus [Pulvermü ller et al, 2006]. Similarly for music, musical practice has been shown to bind representations of sound and motion, so that finger motions trigger imagined sound, and heard sound triggers imagined finger motions [Bangert et al, 2006;Haueisen and Knö sche, 2001]. We attribute the activity shown by our subjects in the precentral gyrus (related to motor control) and the globus pallidus (related to posture control and the suppression of unwanted movements) to soundmotor interactions in responses to music in the timbre of expertise.…”

Section: Syntactic and Motor Involvement In Music Listeningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Selective neurophysiologic responses to music in instrumentalists with different listening biographies

Margulis

Mlsna

Uppunda

et al. 2007

Human Brain Mapping

108

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

To appropriately adapt to constant sensory stimulation, neurons in the auditory system are tuned to various acoustic characteristics, such as center frequencies, frequency modulations, and their combinations, particularly those combinations that carry species-specific communicative functions. The present study asks whether such tunings extend beyond acoustic and communicative functions to auditory self-relevance and expertise. More specifically, we examined the role of the listening biographyan individual's long term experience with a particular type of auditory input-on perceptual-neural plasticity. Two groups of expert instrumentalists (violinists and flutists) listened to matched musical excerpts played on the two instruments (J.S. Bach Partitas for solo violin and flute) while their cerebral hemodynamic responses were measured using fMRI. Our experimental design allowed for a comprehensive investigation of the neurophysiology (cerebral hemodynamic responses as measured by fMRI) of auditory expertise (i.e., when violinists listened to violin music and when flutists listened to flute music) and nonexpertise (i.e., when subjects listened to music played on the other instrument). We found an extensive cerebral network of expertise, which implicates increased sensitivity to musical syntax (BA 44), timbre (auditory association cortex), and sound-motor interactions (precentral gyrus) when listening to music played on the instrument of expertise (the instrument for which subjects had a unique listening biography). These findings highlight auditory self-relevance and expertise as a mechanism of perceptual-neural plasticity, and implicate neural tuning that includes and extends beyond

show abstract

Shared networks for auditory and motor processing in professional pianists: Evidence from fMRI conjunction

Cited by 503 publications

References 43 publications

Action Representation of Sound: Audiomotor Recognition Network While Listening to Newly Acquired Actions

Action Representation of Sound: Audiomotor Recognition Network While Listening to Newly Acquired Actions

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

Selective neurophysiologic responses to music in instrumentalists with different listening biographies

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About