Title
To musicians, the message is in the meter pre-attentive neuronal responses to incongruent rhythm are left-lateralized in musicians.
Abstract
Musicians exchange non-verbal cues as messages when they play together. This is particularly true in music with a sketchy outline. Jazz musicians receive and interpret the cues when performance parts from a regular pattern of rhythm, suggesting that they enjoy a highly developed sensitivity to subtle deviations of rhythm. We demonstrate that pre-attentive brain responses recorded with magnetoencephalography to rhythmic incongruence are left-lateralized in expert jazz musicians and right-lateralized in musically inept non-musicians. The left-lateralization of the pre-attentive responses suggests functional adaptation of the brain to a task of communication, which is much like that of language.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.08.039
NeuroImage
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Pre-attentive neuronal responses,Incongruent rhythm,Musicians
Journal
24
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1053-8119
16
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.40
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter Vuust1475.30
Karen Johanne Pallesen2504.66
Christopher Bailey3161.40
Titia L van Zuijen4161.40
A GJEDDE5409.87
Andreas Roepstorff6161.40
Leif Østergaard7161.40