Brain Responses to Real and Imagined Interpretation of Tonal Versus Atonal Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21557338 |
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| Authors | Almudena González (0000-0002-6235-829X, Universidad de Laguna, Tenerife, Spain), Antoni Gamundı́ (0000-0002-0880-4658, Universitat de les Illes Balears), Julián J González (Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 326-347 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0730-7829 • E-ISSN: 1533-8312 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/mp.2024.41.5.326 |
| OpenAlex | W4396985912 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 67 |
Professional musicians have been teaching/learning/interpreting Western classical tonal music for longer than atonal music. This may be reflected in their brain plasticity and playing efficiency. To test this idea, EEG connectivity networks (EEG-CNs) of expert cellists at rest and during real and imagined musical interpretation of tonal and atonal excerpts were analyzed. Graphs and connectomes were constructed as models of EEG-CNs, using functional connectivity measurements of EEG phase synchronization in different frequency bands. Tonal and atonal interpretation resulted in a global desynchronization/dysconnectivity versus resting—irrespective of frequency bands—particularly during imagined-interpretation. During the latter, the normalized local information-transfer efficiency (NLE) of graph-EEG-CN’s small-world structure at rest increased significantly during both tonal and atonal interpretation, and more significantly during atonal-interpretation. Regional results from the graphs/connectomes supported previous findings, but only certain EEG frequency bands. During imagined-interpretation, the number of disconnected regions and subnetworks, as well as regions with higher NLE, were greater in atonal-interpretation than in tonal-interpretation for delta/theta/gamma-EEG-CNs. The opposite was true during real-interpretation, specifically limited to alpha-EEG-CN. Our EEG-CN experimental paradigm revealed perceptual differences in musicians’ brains during tonal and atonal interpretations, particularly during imagined-interpretation, potentially due to differences in cognitive roots and brain plasticity for tonal and atonal music, which may affect the musicians’ interpretation
Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Linguistics · Communication · Multisensory perception and integration · Music and Audio Processing · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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