Audiovisual structural connectivity in musicians and non-musicians: a cortical thickness and diffusion tensor imaging study.

ABSTRACT: Our sensory systems provide complementary information about the multimodal objects and events that are the target of perception in everyday life. Professional musicians' specialization in the auditory domain is reflected in the morphology of their brains, which has distinctive characteristics, particularly in areas related to auditory and audio-motor activity. Here, we combined diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) with a behavioral measure of visually induced gain in pitch discrimination, and we used measures of cortical thickness (CT) correlations to assess how auditory specialization and musical expertise are reflected in the structural architecture of white and grey matter relevant to audiovisual processing. Across all participants (n = 45), we found a correlation (p < 0.001) between reliance

SUBMITTER: Moller C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7900203 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature