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Mu rhythm suppression demonstrates action representation in pianists during passive listening of piano melodies
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Nature, 2016.
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Abstract
- Musicians undergo extensive training which enhances established neural links between auditory and motor areas of the brain. Long-term training develops, strengthens and enables flexibility in these connections allowing proficiency in performance. Previous research has indicated that passive listening of trained music results in the recruitment of premotor areas. It has been argued that this sound-action representation may rely on activity in mirror neuron systems and that these systems are heavily dependent on actual sensorimotor experience. Action observation studies using electroencephalography have associated changes in mu rhythm activity with the mirror neuron system in the visuomotor domain. We aimed to investigate similar effects in the audiomotor domain. We utilised a mu suppression method in our action-listening study to detect involuntary motor coactivation when pianists passively listened to piano melodies. Wavelet analysis revealed sensorimotor mu rhythm suppression while pianists listened passively to piano melodies. Thus, we show that this spectral analysis method can also be used to demonstrate that auditory stimuli can activate the human mirror neuron system when sounds are linked to actions. Mu suppression could be a useful index for further research on action representation and training-induced plasticity.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Melody
Auditory perception
Electroencephalography Phase Synchronization
Motor Activity
Electroencephalography
050105 experimental psychology
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Rhythm
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Active listening
Mirror neuron
Communication
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
General Neuroscience
05 social sciences
Piano
Brain Waves
Auditory Perception
Female
Sensorimotor Cortex
business
Psychology
Neuroscience
Music
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2f4d4756a135d24bab44140cac52a468