Spatiotemporal whole-brain activity and functional connectivity of melodies recognition.

ABSTRACT: Music is a non-verbal human language, built on logical, hierarchical structures, that offers excellent opportunities to explore how the brain processes complex spatiotemporal auditory sequences. Using the high temporal resolution of magnetoencephalography, we investigated the unfolding brain dynamics of 70 participants during the recognition of previously memorized musical sequences compared to novel sequences matched in terms of entropy and information content. Measures of both whole-brain activity and functional connectivity revealed a widespread brain network underlying the recognition of the memorized auditory sequences, which comprised primary auditory cortex, superior temporal gyrus, insula, frontal operculum, cingulate gyrus, orbitofrontal cortex, basal ganglia, thalamus, and hippoc

SUBMITTER: Bonetti L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11304985 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature