Moving to music: effects of heard and imagined musical cues on movement-related brain activity.

ABSTRACT: Music is commonly used to facilitate or support movement, and increasingly used in movement rehabilitation. Additionally, there is some evidence to suggest that music imagery, which is reported to lead to brain signatures similar to music perception, may also assist movement. However, it is not yet known whether either imagined or musical cueing changes the way in which the motor system of the human brain is activated during simple movements. Here, functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to compare neural activity during wrist flexions performed to either heard or imagined music with self-pacing of the same movement without any cueing. Focusing specifically on the motor network of the brain, analyses were performed within a mask of BA4, BA6, the basal ganglia (putamen, caudate, and

SUBMITTER: Schaefer RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4176038 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature