Mental imagery in music performance: Underlying mechanisms and potential benefits

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 206-213

  Keller, Peter E ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action simulation; Auditory imagery; Individual differences; Internal models; Music performance; Temporal prediction

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COORDINATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL IMAGERY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; MUSIC PERFORMANCE; MUSICIAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREDICTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84860248633     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06439.x     Document Type: Article

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