Musical imagery depends upon coordination of auditory and sensorimotor brain activity.

ABSTRACT: Recent magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies have established that sensorimotor brain rhythms are strongly modulated during mental imagery of musical beat and rhythm, suggesting that motor regions of the brain are important for temporal aspects of musical imagery. The present study examined whether these rhythms also play a role in non-temporal aspects of musical imagery including musical pitch. Brain function was measured with MEG from 19 healthy adults while they performed a validated musical pitch imagery task and two non-imagery control tasks with identical temporal characteristics. A 4-dipole source model probed activity in bilateral auditory and sensorimotor cortices. Significantly greater β-band modulation was found during imagery compared to control tasks of auditory perception and

SUBMITTER: Gelding RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6856354 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature