When the brain plays music: Auditory-motor interactions in music perception and production

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 547-558

  Zatorre, Robert J ^a,b   Chen, Joyce L ^a,b   Penhune, Virginia B ^b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Laboratoire international de recherche sur le cerveau la musique et le son Montreal   (Canada)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; EMOTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; KINEMATICS; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; MUSIC; NEUROIMAGING; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RHYTHM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; MUSIC; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PITCH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 34250892502     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2152     Document Type: Review

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