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Mental Concerts: Musical Imagery and Auditory Cortex

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Zatorre, Robert J., Halpern, Andrea R.·2005·Neuron
DOI 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.06.013
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Most people intuitively understand what it means to "hear a tune in your head." Converging evidence now indicates that auditory cortical areas can be recruited even in the absence of sound and that this corresponds to the phenomenological experience of imagining music. We discuss these findings as well as some methodological challenges. We also consider the role of core versus belt areas in musical imagery, the relation between auditory and motor systems during imagery of music performance, and practical implications of this research.

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  • The multivariate method's limited spatial resolution prevents finer quantification of the neural ensembles underlying overt stimulation, covert imagery, and the auditory efference copy; fMRI is needed for this.

    “Although the pattern similarity between overt stimulation, covert imagery, and the implicated auditory efference copy was quantified by a multivariate method, the limited spatial resolution of the method prevents more granular quantification of the neural ensembles that mediate them. High spatial resolution techniques, such as fMRI, are needed to assess this question (Zatorre and Halpern, 2005).”

    From Mental imagery of speech and movement implicates the dynamics of internal forward models (2010) · cites this paper as Zatorre and Halpern, 2005

  • Some elicitation paradigms for inner speech have not adopted behavioral controls to check whether inner speech is actually produced during scanning experiments, relying instead on participants' self-reported acquiescence with the task.

    “Furthermore, some elicitation paradigms for inner speech have not adopted behavioral controls to check whether inner speech is actually produced during scanning experiments, relying instead on participants’ self-reported acquiescence with the task (this problem is also faced in auditory imagery research; see Zatorre & Halpern, 2005, for a discussion).”

    From Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015) · cites this paper as Zatorre & Halpern, 2005

  • One problem with such studies is the lack of a behavioral control when asking participants to generate inner speech in the scanner.

    “One problem with such studies is the lack of a behavioral control when asking participants to generate inner speech in the scanner.”

    From Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015) · cites this paper as Zatorre & Halpern, 2005

  • Inner speech paradigms are commonly associated with left inferior frontal gyrus, left insula, and left STG activation; auditory imagery for speech and other sounds is associated with activation of SMA, posterior parietal cortex, and STG/MTG bilaterally.

    “Despite some overlap in activations, inner speech paradigms are commonly associated with left inferior frontal gyrus, left insula, and left STG activation (Fegen et al., 2015; McGuire et al., 1996); in contrast, auditory imagery for speech (whether imagining hearing one’s own voice or another’s) and auditory imagery for other sounds is associated with activation of SMA, posterior parietal cortex,”

    From Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015) · cites this paper as Zatorre & Halpern, 2005

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Authors
Zatorre, R. J., & Halpern, A. R.
Affiliations
  • Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (CA)
  • Bucknell University (US)
Corresponding author
Zatorre, Robert J.
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Venue
Neuron
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2005-07
Volume
47
Issue
1
Pages
9-12
ISSN
0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.neuron.2005.06.013
OpenAlex
W2031883346
Cited by
420
References
20
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FWCI
4.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
Locations
  • Neuron (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Bucknell Digital Commons (Bucknell University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
Keywords
musical imagery, auditory cortex, music perception, auditory-motor interaction, neural correlates of music
MeSH terms
Animals, Auditory Cortex, Hearing, Humans, Imagination, Movement, Music

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