Action in Perception: Prominent Visuo-Motor Functional Symmetry in Musicians during Music Listening
Burunat I, Brattico E, Puoliväli T, Ristaniemi T, Sams M, Toiviainen P
PloS one · 29 citations
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- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Mechanisms only
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- Academy of Finland
- University or hospital
- Aalto-Yliopisto
- Government
- Tekes
- Government
- China Scholarship Council
- Grants
- Academy of Finland (272250); Academy of Finland (274037); Tekes (40334/10); Academy of Finland (272250 and 274037)
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Publication
- Published
- 2015-09-30 · PLoS One · vol. 10 · issue 9 · p. e0138238
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Cited
- 53 citations · more than 91% of similar papers · 2.8× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 77 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Neuroscience and Music Perception · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation · Action Observation and Synchronization
- Keywords
- Corpus callosum, Psychology, Perception, Neuroscience, Neuroplasticity, Active listening, Sensory system, Auditory perception, Cognitive psychology, Audiology, Communication, Medicine
- MeSH
- corpus callosum, humans, radiography, auditory perception, music, adult, female, male, sensorimotor cortex
6 authors
From FI, DK
- Iballa Burunat · correspondingUniversity of Jyväskylä
- Elvira Brattico · correspondingUniversity of Helsinki; Aarhus University; Royal Academy of Music; Aalto University
- Tuomas Puoliväli · correspondingUniversity of Jyväskylä
- Tapani Ristaniemi · correspondingUniversity of Jyväskylä
- Mikko E. Sams · correspondingAalto University
- Petri Toiviainen · correspondingUniversity of Jyväskylä
Abstract
Musical training leads to sensory and motor neuroplastic changes in the human brain. Motivated by findings on enlarged corpus callosum in musicians and asymmetric somatomotor representation in string players, we investigated the relationship between musical training, callosal anatomy, and interhemispheric functional symmetry during music listening. Functional symmetry was increased in musicians compared to nonmusicians, and in keyboardists compared to string players. This increased functional symmetry was prominent in visual and motor brain networks. Callosal size did not significantly differ between groups except for the posterior callosum in musicians compared to nonmusicians. We conclude that the distinctive postural and kinematic symmetry in instrument playing cross-modally shapes information processing in sensory-motor cortical areas during music listening. This cross-modal plasticity suggests that motor training affects music perception.
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