Abstract
Musicians exchange non-verbal cues as messages when they play together. This is particularly true in music with a sketchy outline. Jazz musicians receive and interpret the cues when performance parts from a regular pattern of rhythm, suggesting that they enjoy a highly developed sensitivity to subtle deviations of rhythm. We demonstrate that pre-attentive brain responses recorded with magnetoencephalography to rhythmic incongruence are left-lateralized in expert jazz musicians and right-lateralized in musically inept non-musicians. The left-lateralization of the pre-attentive responses suggests functional adaptation of the brain to a task of communication, which is much like that of language.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 560-564 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | NeuroImage |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 15 2005 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Incongruent rhythm
- Musicians
- Pre-attentive neuronal responses
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neurology
- Cognitive Neuroscience