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Sensitivity to musical structure in the human brain
- Source :
- Journal of Neurophysiology. 108:3289-3300
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- American Physiological Society, 2012.
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Abstract
- Evidence from brain-damaged patients suggests that regions in the temporal lobes, distinct from those engaged in lower-level auditory analysis, process the pitch and rhythmic structure in music. In contrast, neuroimaging studies targeting the representation of music structure have primarily implicated regions in the inferior frontal cortices. Combining individual-subject fMRI analyses with a scrambling method that manipulated musical structure, we provide evidence of brain regions sensitive to musical structure bilaterally in the temporal lobes, thus reconciling the neuroimaging and patient findings. We further show that these regions are sensitive to the scrambling of both pitch and rhythmic structure but are insensitive to high-level linguistic structure. Our results suggest the existence of brain regions with representations of musical structure that are distinct from high-level linguistic representations and lower-level acoustic representations. These regions provide targets for future research investigating possible neural specialization for music or its associated mental processes.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Adolescent
Physiology
behavioral disciplines and activities
Scrambling
Young Adult
Rhythm
Neuroimaging
medicine
Humans
Temporal dynamics of music and language
Musical form
Brain Mapping
General Neuroscience
Representation (systemics)
Brain
Articles
Human brain
Contrast (music)
Middle Aged
Temporal Lobe
humanities
medicine.anatomical_structure
Acoustic Stimulation
Auditory Perception
Female
Psychology
Neuroscience
Music
Photic Stimulation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15221598 and 00223077
- Volume :
- 108
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Neurophysiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d14d7ca4ac7b89663e0c2e7d13b04b05