A theory of instrument-specific absolute pitch

L Reymore, NC Hansen - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
While absolute pitch (AP)—the ability to name musical pitches globally and without
reference—is rare in expert musicians, anecdotal evidence suggests that some musicians …

Time to face language: embodied mechanisms underpin the inception of face-related meanings in the human brain

AM García, E Hesse, A Birba, F Adolfi… - Cerebral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In construing meaning, the brain recruits multimodal (conceptual) systems and embodied
(modality-specific) mechanisms. Yet, no consensus exists on how crucial the latter are for …

How passive is passive listening? Toward a sensorimotor theory of auditory perception

T Froese, X González-Grandón - Phenomenology and the Cognitive …, 2020 - Springer
According to sensorimotor theory perceiving is a bodily skill involving exercise of an implicit
know-how of the systematic ways that sensations change as a result of potential movements …

Multimodal sensory-spatial integration and retrieval of trained motor patterns for body coordination in musicians and dancers

AM Ladda, SB Wallwork, M Lotze - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Dancers and musicians are experts in spatial and temporal processing, which allows them
to coordinate movement with music. This high-level processing has been associated with …

Motor recruitment during action observation: effect of interindividual differences in action strategy

PM Hilt, P Cardellicchio, E Dolfini, T Pozzo… - Cerebral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Visual processing of other's actions is supported by sensorimotor brain activations. Access
to sensorimotor representations may, in principle, provide the top-down signal required to …

Action-perception coupling and near transfer: listening to melodies after piano practice triggers sequence-specific representations in the auditory-motor network

Ö de Manzano, KL Kuckelkorn, K Ström… - Cerebral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Understanding how perception and action are coupled in the brain has important
implications for training, rehabilitation, and brain–machine interfaces. Ideomotor theory …

Differential activation and functional plasticity of multimodal areas associated with acquired musical skill

N Srinivasan, J Bishop, R Yekovich, DB Rosenfield… - Neuroscience, 2020 - Elsevier
Training of a musical skill is known to produce a distributed neural representation of the
ability to perceive music and perform musical tasks. In the present study we tested the …

[HTML][HTML] Vocal-motor interference eliminates the memory advantage for vocal melodies

EA Wood, J Rovetti, FA Russo - Brain and Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Spontaneous motor cortical activity during passive perception of action has been interpreted
as a sensorimotor simulation of the observed action. There is currently interest in how …

Music form but not music experience modulates motor cortical activity in response to novel music

P Izbicki, A Zaman, EL Stegemöller - Frontiers in Human …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
External cues, such as music, improve movement performance in persons with Parkinson's
disease. However, research examining the motor cortical mechanisms by which this occurs …

Music and mirror neuron system

A Nuara - Brain and art: From aesthetics to therapeutics, 2020 - Springer
Musical abilities arise from an extensive practice—starting in childhood and going on
throughout musician's lifetime—engaging perceptual, motor, and cognitive domains. The …