RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Spatiotemporal brain dynamics during recognition of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2020.06.23.165191
DO 10.1101/2020.06.23.165191
A1 L. Bonetti
A1 E. Brattico
A1 F. Carlomagno
A1 J. Cabral
A1 A. Stevner
A1 G. Deco
A1 P.C. Whybrow
A1 M. Pearce
A1 D. Pantazis
A1 P. Vuust
A1 M.L Kringelbach
YR 2020
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/06/24/2020.06.23.165191.abstract
AB Music is a universal non-verbal human language, built on logical structures and articulated in balanced hierarchies between sounds, offering excellent opportunities to explore how the brain creates meaning for complex spatiotemporal auditory patterns. Using the high temporal resolution of magnetoencephalography in 70 participants, we investigated their unfolding brain dynamics during the recognition of Johann Sebastian Bach’s original musical patterns compared to new variations thereof. Remarkably, the recognition of Bach’s original music ignited a widespread music processing brain network comprising primary auditory cortex, superior temporal gyrus, insula, frontal operculum, cingulate gyrus, orbitofrontal cortex, basal ganglia and hippocampus. Furthermore, both activity and connectivity increased over time, following the evolution and unfolding of Bach’s original patterns. This study shed new light on brain activity and connectivity dynamics underlying auditory patterns recognition, highlighting the crucial role of fast neural phase synchronization underlying meaningful, complex cognitive processes.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.