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

"The results showed a crucialrole for the caudal anterior cingulate and the ventral pre-supplementary motor area in the neural encoding of long-known as compared with recently known and unknown music."

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

However, amyloid-b deposition (measured with flobetapir PET) within the ... regions was not substantially less than in the rest of the brain, which suggests [they] were still in a very early stage of the expected course of biomarker development ... and therefore relatively well preserved."

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

...the regions identified to encode musical memory corresponded to areas that showed substantially minimal cortical atrophy (as measured with MRI), and minimal disruption of glucose-metabolism (as measured with PET), as compared to the rest of the brain...

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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

The authors used a multi-method neuroimaging approach with structural MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, GABA spectroscopy, and fMRI.

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

"Our results show drummers have higher microstructural diffusion properties in the corpus callosum than controls ... [which] predicts drumming performance and GABA levels in the motor cortex... drummers show less activation in the motor cortex when performing a finger-tapping task than controls."

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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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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Trump is promising to boost the U.S. economy by making it harder for Americans to trade with the rest of the world. He is also promising to destroy Iran's economy by making it harder for Iranians to trade with the rest of the world.

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

Professionals clearly manifested more prominent signals within sensorimotor regions (left premotor cortex, supp. motor area, left posterior cerebellum), bilateral superior & left inferior parietal lobes, and the right superior pars opercularis as well as the left anterior superior temporal lobe.

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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

Amusia: inability to perceive music accurately. Misophonia: intense emotional reaction to common sounds. Concurrent amusia and misophonia following a right posterior insula, posterior temporal, supramarginal cortex, and sensory cortex resection for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy.

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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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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

THE DEATH OF US SCIENCE ☠️

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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Thrilled to share that The New Yorker featured my work on musical anhedonia - why some people don’t experience pleasure from music, and what this reveals about how our brains predict and process reward. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna... #neuroskyence #musicskyence #psychscisky

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What a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music

The study of musical anhedonia—the inability to enjoy music—is revealing how music moves us.

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

Although some of these multiregional differences could be attributable to innate predisposition, the authors believe they may represent structural adaptations in response to long-term skill acquisition and the repetitive rehearsal of those skills.

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

The authors note that musicians learn complex motor and auditory skills (e.g., the translation of visually perceived musical symbols into motor commands with simultaneous auditory monitoring of output), which they practice extensively from childhood throughout their entire careers.

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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 · 28/09/2025

Arguably the greatest concert film of all time. Of course, some would argue The Last Waltz or Woodstock or...

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

It appears to me that you have a very positive view of Trump. 😏

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

"These findings indicate that a specific brain state of musical creation is formed ... in which [neurons in] the primary visual and motor areas...are recruited to enhance the functional connectivity between the ACC and the default mode network to plan the integration of musical notes with emotion."

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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 · 18/06/2025

"This collection explores the science of learning to move and its impact on cognition, how the neuropsychological aspects of the creative movement process is manifested in the brain, and how creative movement or dance can be harnessed to enhance health, cognitive function, and quality of life."

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The latest issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease has a special section entitled "Neuropsychological impact and mechanisms of creative movement: Implications for rehabilitation for aging, neurodegenerative disease, and neurotrauma." See link and abstract below. #neuroskyence

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 13/06/2025

my latest, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences this review lays out what I think the fundamental specializations are for music perception in humans, namely, the hierarchical processing of pitch and rhythm or, how our minds turn vibrating air into music authors.elsevier.com/a/1lG9G_V1r-...

Trends in
Cognitive Sciences
Review
Core systems of music perception
Samuel A. Mehr 1 ,2 , *
1 School of Psychology, University of
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Human musicality is supported by two distinct systems of representation: one for
tonal perception, which contextualizes pitch input in reference to a hierarchy of
tones; and one for metrical perception, which contextualizes temporal input in reference to a hierarchy of rhythmic groupings. Growing evidence suggests that the two
systems are universal, automatic, encapsulated, and relatively early-developing. But
like speech perception, and unlike several other perceptual systems, they appear to
be uniquely human. The systems of tonal and metrical perception form a foundational structure for musicality that, when combined with the processing of other
acoustical information (e.g., timbre or auditory scenes), and applied in conjunction
with other cognitive domains, yields a human psychology of music.

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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

"...and deactivation of angular gyrus and supramarginal gyrus, brain structures implicated in semantic processing of language... Therefore, we argue that neural regions for syntactic processing are not domain-specific for language but instead may be domain-general for communication."

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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 · 25/03/2025

Probably trying to maximize group differences

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

This hypothesis is supported by the strong association we found between structural differences, musician status, and practice intensity.

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

Although some of these multiregional differences could be attributable to innate predisposition, [authors] believe they may represent ... adaptations in response to long-term skill acquisition and the repetitive rehearsal of those skills.

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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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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Elbows up, Canada.

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Emily S. Cross @escross.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

💃🧠 Psyched to share my latest paper in Neuron on the past, present and future of dance neuroscience research! Crazy to think where this field will be in 20 more years 🚀 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kkh3_KOmx... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Dance #CognitiveNeuroscience #Neuroaesthetics #BrainScience

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Strong, J doi: 10.1080/13825585.2018.1448356. The cognitive functioning of older adult... musicians and non-musicians Adult non-musicians vs low-activity musicians vs and high-activity musicians. Differences found on tasks of visual spatial ability, naming, and executive functioning. #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Singing also enhanced short-term and working memory and caregiver well-being, whereas music listening had a positive effect on quality of life.

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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Särkämö, T et al doi: 10.1093/geront/gnt100. Cognitive, emotional, and social benefits of regular musical activities in early dementia Compared with usual care, both singing & music listening improved mood, orientation, remote episodic memory, also attention & executive function. #neuroskyence

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

More efficient for those who were trained vs untrained later in life. A good argument for music education in schools.

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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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Victor Pando-Naude @pandonaude.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The second, we synthesized 84 studies comparing neuro-structural and -functional differences between musicians and non-musicians in the search of a neural signature of musical expertise. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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An ALE meta-analytic review of musical expertise - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - An ALE meta-analytic review of musical expertise

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Victor Pando-Naude @pandonaude.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

For all #musicscience newcomers, two recent meta-analysis @musicinthebrain.bsky.social on MUSIC COGNITION and MUSIC EXPERTISE. First, we synthesised 130 studies and discussed our meta-analytic findings under the light of the predictive coding of music theory www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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An ALE meta-analytic review of top-down and bottom-up processing of music in the brain - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - An ALE meta-analytic review of top-down and bottom-up processing of music in the brain

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

This network constitutes an essential brain substrate for recognition of musical emotion that overlaps with brain regions previously implicated in coding emotional value, behavioural context, conceptual knowledge and theory of mind.

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

Pts with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) exhibit breakdown in emotional and social functioning... On neuropsychological evaluation, FTLD pts showed poor recognition of basic emotions (happiness, sadness, anger and fear) from music as well as faces and voices compared with healthy controls.

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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

"Further research is, however, needed in this area: it is anticipated that attendance at a number of national and international concert venues would resolve this issue, and the researchers are currently seeking funding for this." 😄

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

As you might guess from the title, although this article presents data, it is tongue-in-cheek. E.g. the authors suggest sax players should declare themselves bandleaders to reduce their mortality.

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