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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jacobsen, J-H et al 2015 Why musical memory can be preserved in advanced Alzheimer’s disease. doi:10.1093/brain/awv135. [Details in comments]

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Schlaffke, L et al. Boom Chack Boom-A multimethod investigation of motor inhibition in professional drummers.Brain Behav. 2020 Jan;10(1):e01490. doi: 10.1002/brb3.1490.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lotze et al 2003 The musician's brain: functional imaging of amateurs and professionals during performance and imagery Neuroimage doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.07.018.

Masked maps of prof vs amateurs during executed and imagined movements

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Dappen et al 2026 doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2025.109483. A case of acquired amusia and misophonia following right temporal resection

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Glaset & Schlaug 2003. Brain structures differ between musicians and non-musicians Gray matter volume differences in motor, auditory, and visual-spatial brain regions were found between pro musicians with amateur musicians and non-musicians. cdn.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/blobs/6e...

Voxel by voxel comparisons of pro, amateur and non-musicians.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Jing Lu et al The Brain Functional State of Music Creation doi: 10.1038/srep12277. Compared composing vs resting state fMRI of 17 composers. Stronger functional connectivity appeared between anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), right angular gyrus and bilateral superior frontal gyrus during composition.

Row A shows areas of decreased connectivity, Row E areas of increased connectivity.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Curse of Neuroanatomy Training Part 4. Tessellation of Mona Lisa, but looks like gyri to us. Thanks to Dr. Jeff Browndyke. Original post by Kevin Atkinson Mathematical Tiling and Tessellation. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Donnay et al doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088665 An fMRI Study of ‘Trading Fours’ in Jazz Improvisation between musicians-->activation of perisylvian areas linked to processing of syntactic elements in music, including inferior frontal gyrus & posterior superior temporal gyrus... #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Gustavson et al doi: 10.1007/s10519-023-10135-0. Parents reported on children's music experiences (N = 11,876 children). Instrument exposure... was associated with language (r = .27) and executive functions (r = .15-0.17), stronger than music listening, visual art, or soccer. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

For drummers: "The experience of groove is a trade-off between stimulus complexity (amount of syncopation) and the ability to maintain a sufficiently stable metre for moving in time with music."

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Vuust, P et al doi: 10.1038/s41583-022-00578-5. Epub 2022 Mar 29. Music in the brain Review of the cognitive neuroscience literature of music perception. Music perception, action, emotion & learning all rest on the human brain's fundamental capacity for prediction. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Gaser & Schlaug doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.23-27-09240.2003. Brain structures differ between musicians and non-musicians Gray matter volume differences in motor, auditory, & visual-spatial brain regions in pro musicians vs matched group of amateur musicians and non-musicians... #neuroskyence

Plot of grey matter differences in musicians

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Saarikivi et al 2023 doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhad034. Advantage in executive functions in musically-trained vs not trained children is more pronounced at an earlier age than in late adolescence. But there was more efficient recruitment of neural resources executive tasks after childhood. #neuroskyence

fMRI results showing areas of more efficient processing

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Omar, R et al Structural neuroanatomy of music emotion recognition [in] frontotemporal degeneration doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.002 Impaired recognition of music emotions was associated with grey matter loss in insula, orbito/medial frontal cortex, anterior cingulate & other areas #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Kinra, S & Okasha, M. Unsafe sax: ... impact of too much sax on the mortality of famous jazz musicians. doi:0.1136/bmj.319.7225.1612 Among jazz musicians, playing saxophone is a major health hazard. Playing more than one instrument or being a bandleader has a protective influence. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Eierun, C et al. doi: 10.1093/psyrad/kkad003. eCollection 2023.Resting-state functional connectivity in lifelong musicians On resting state fMRI, musicians show an increase in average functional network connectivity (FNC) with age while controls show a decrease (P = 0.013). #neuroskyence

FNC differences of musicians vs controls

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Belfi, AM & Tranel, D. doi: 10.1037/neu0000051. Impaired naming of famous musical melodies is associated with left temporal polar damage It was previously shown that damage to the LTP is associated with impaired naming of unique entities (e.g. famous people and landmarks). #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Gasenzer, ER et al. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2016.11.144. The Unforgettable Neurosurgical Operations of Musicians in the Last Century 4 musicians from the twentieth century who underwent neurosurgical interventions: Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Clara Haskil, and Pat Martino. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The curse of neuroanatomy training, Part 3. Natural objects that look like brains. Put together by six neuroscience postgraduate students from Cardiff University. thebraindomain.wordpress.com/2016/12/24/t... #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Trimble, M & Hesdorffer, D J doi: 10.1192/s2056474000001720 Music and the brain: the neuroscience of music and musical appreciation An elegantly written brief review with evolutionary insights, and discussion of links between musical creativity and psychopathology. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Kaelen, M et al doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2016.03.018. LSD modulates music-induced imagery... Parahippocampal cortex is linked with music-evoked emotion, psychedelics effects, mental imagery. fMRI showed increased PHC-visual cortex functional connectivity during music listening on LSD. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The curse of neuroanatomy education, Part 2: On the left is my soapdish. On the right is a CT scan of the lateral ventricles of the brain. As Dr. Jeffrey Browndyke points out, this affliction is technically known as pareidolia. 😀 #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The curse of a neuroanatomy education: Dr. Laura Frakey saw the tree on the right and immediately noted the similarity to brain white matter pathways on the left (shown using DTI imaging). 😀 #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Chia-Wei Li doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2024.10.024. The presence of drum and bass modulates responses...to pop songs. Drum & bass elicited stronger activation in frontal regions associated with mirror properties: R ventral premotor and L dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

full text links Trost, W et al 2024 Live music stimulates the affective brain.. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2316306121. Live music stimulated a dense functional neural network with the amygdala as central node influencing other brain systems. Many other interesting findings. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Belden, A et al 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116384. Improvising at rest: Differentiating jazz & classical music training with resting state connectivity More tight-knit cortical networks in Classical musicians; more disperse, globally-connected cortical networks in Improvisational musicians.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Schlaffke, L et al 2020 doi: 10.1002/brb3.1490. Boom Chack Boom-A multimethod investigation of motor inhibition in professional drummers Drummers had more efficient cortical motor areas, and stronger link between right-left brain connections and GABA (associated with motor inhibition).

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Eierud, C et al 2023 Resting-state functional connectivity in lifelong musicians. doi: 10.1093/psyrad/kkad003. Musicians show increase in average FC with age while controls show a decrease (P = 0.013). Lifelong musicianship may contribute to enhanced brain & cognitive reserve. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Tanaka, S & Kirino, E The parietal opercular auditory-sensorimotor network in musicians doi.org/10.1016/j.ba... Musicians have enhanced connectivity of the auditory-sensorimotor network. The left parietal operculum connects the auditory, somatosensory, and motor areas. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Jacoben, J-H 2015 doi: 10.1093/brain/awv135. Why musical memory can be preserved in advanced Alzheimer's disease In AD pts, regions encoding musical memory had minimal cortical atrophy (on MRI), and minimal disruption of metabolism (on PET scan), compared to the rest of the brain. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Bruchhage, MMK et al doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65877-2. Drum training induces long-term plasticity in the cerebellum and connected cortical thickness After 8 weeks of group drumming instruction, cerebellum significantly changing its grey and white matter microstructure. Cortical changes also found.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This has been labelled the "Mozart effect," as it has usually involved playing one of Mozart's works. The effect has mainly been studied in people with intellectual disability and intractable seizures.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Fuentes-Sánchez, N. Imaging Neuroscience (2025) 3: imag_a_00425.On joy and sorrow: Neuroimaging meta-analyses of music-induced emotion. Meta-analysis shows amygdala activation was dependent on hedonic valence, other areas due to general arousal.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Martínez-Molina, N et al (2016).Proc Natl Acad Sci Neural correlates of specific musical anhedonia Music anhedonics had reduction of activity for music in nucleus accumbens (NAcc), and decreased connectivity between right auditory cortex and ventral striatum on fMRI.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Ting-Han Lin et al (2023) Psychiatry Res doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115498. Music-based therapies significantly improved the cognition, quality of life, and psychiatric sx of patients with dementia compared with non-music therapies.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Romeiser et al 2021 PLoS One Musical instrument engagement (ME) across the life course and episodic memory in late life... High high school ME (B = 0.348, p = 0.049) and continuous adult ME (B = 0.424, p = 0.012) were associated with higher memory scores at age 65, among 5,718 individuals.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Amad, A (2017) Cereb Cortex Motor Learning Induces Plasticity in the Resting Brain-Drumming Up a Connection Drum training led to increased functional connectivity between superior temporal gyrus and the premotor and motor regions, the right parietal lobe and a decreased FC with the cerebellum.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Cahart et al (2022) The effect of learning to drum on behavior and brain function in autistic adolescents. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Jun 7;119(23) Improvements in drumming --> reduction in hyperactivity and inattention difficulties in drummers compared to controls.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Sihvonen, AJ. J Neurosci. 2024 Apr 10;44(15):e1922232024. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1922-23.2024. Focal Brain Lesions Causing Acquired Amusia Map to a Common Brain Network

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Casella, C. Huntingtons Dis. 2020;9(3):303-320. doi: 10.3233/JHD-200424. Drumming Motor Sequence Training Induces Apparent Myelin Remodelling in Huntington's Disease White matter changes found in corpus callosum and supplementary motor area of HD pts after drum training. Sure, drums are healthy!

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Ghosh, A et al. Neurosci Rural Pract. 2024 Apr-Jun;15(2):327-333. doi: 10.25259/JNRP_605_2023. Epub 2024 Apr 12. Music and the aging brain - Exploring the role of long-term Carnatic music training on cognition and gray matter volumes

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Romeiser et al. PLoS One. 2021 Jun 24;16(6):e0253053. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253053. eCollection 2021. Musical instrument engagement across the life course... Musical engagement in childhood or adulthood is associated with non-musical cognitive reserve in different domains of episodic memory.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Koelsch S, Fritz T, V Cramon DY, Müller K, Friederici AD. Investigating emotion with music: an fMRI study. Hum Brain Mapp. 2006 Mar;27(3):239-50. doi: 10.1002/hbm.20180. PMID: 16078183; PMCID: PMC6871371.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Limb and Braun (2008) measured brain activity via fMRI while jazz pianists improvised, finding dorsolateral prefrontal/limbic deactivation (reduced conscious control) and medial prefrontal/sensorimotor activation (enhanced internally motivated behaviors). #neuropsychology #neuroscience #music

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