Neural network retuning and neural predictors of learning success associated with cello training.

ABSTRACT: The auditory and motor neural systems are closely intertwined, enabling people to carry out tasks such as playing a musical instrument whose mapping between action and sound is extremely sophisticated. While the dorsal auditory stream has been shown to mediate these audio-motor transformations, little is known about how such mapping emerges with training. Here, we use longitudinal training on a cello as a model for brain plasticity during the acquisition of specific complex skills, including continuous and many-to-one audio-motor mapping, and we investigate individual differences in learning. We trained participants with no musical background to play on a specially designed MRI-compatible cello and scanned them before and after 1 and 4 wk of training. Activation of the auditory-to-motor do

SUBMITTER: Wollman I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6042146 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature