Learning to play a melody: an fMRI study examining the formation of auditory-motor associations.

Journal article

Interactions between the auditory and motor systems are important for music and speech, and may be especially relevant when one learns to associate sounds with movements such as when learning to play a musical instrument. However, little is known about the neural substrates underlying auditory-motor learning. This study used fMRI to investigate the formation of auditory-motor associations while participants with no musical training learned to play a melody. Listening to melodies before and af...

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Authors: Chen, J; Rae, C; Watkins, K

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: NeuroImage
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 1200-1208
• Publication date: 2012-01-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.012
• EISSN: 1095-9572
• ISSN: 1053-8119
• Language: English
• Keywords: Evoked Potentials, Auditory; Young Adult; Music; Motor Cortex; Brain Mapping; Humans; Association Learning; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Female; Male; Movement; Evoked Potentials, Motor; Auditory Cortex; Adult; Psychomotor Performance