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Mental Concerts: Musical Imagery and Auditory Cortex
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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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“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).”
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“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).”
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“One problem with such studies is the lack of a behavioral control when asking participants to generate inner speech in the scanner.”
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“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,”
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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.
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-07
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 1
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- 9-12
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
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- W2031883346
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- 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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