Recruitment of the motor system during music listening: An ALE meta-analysis of fMRI data.

ABSTRACT: Several neuroimaging studies have shown that listening to music activates brain regions that reside in the motor system, even when there is no overt movement. However, many of these studies report the activation of varying motor system areas that include the primary motor cortex, supplementary motor area, dorsal and ventral pre-motor areas and parietal regions. In order to examine what specific roles are played by various motor regions during music perception, we used activation likelihood estimation (ALE) to conduct a meta-analysis of neuroimaging literature on passive music listening. After extensive search of the literature, 42 studies were analyzed resulting in a total of 386 unique subjects contributing 694 activation foci in total. As suspected, auditory activations were found in the

SUBMITTER: Gordon CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6242316 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature