Author:
Bonetti L.,Brattico E.,Carlomagno F.,Cabral J.,Stevner A.,Deco G.,Whybrow P.C.,Pearce M.,Pantazis D.,Vuust P.,Kringelbach M.L
Abstract
ABSTRACTMusic is a 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 previously memorized J.S. Bach’s musical patterns from prelude in C minor BWV 847 compared to novel patterns matched in terms of entropy and information content. Remarkably, the recognition of the memorized music ignited a widespread brain network comprising primary auditory cortex, superior temporal gyrus, insula, frontal operculum, cingulate gyrus, orbitofrontal cortex, basal ganglia, thalamus and hippocampus. Furthermore, measures of both brain activity and functional connectivity presented an overall increase over time, following the evolution and unfolding of the memorized musical patterns. Specifically, while the auditory cortex responded mainly to the first tones of the patterns, the activity and synchronization of higher-order brain areas such as cingulate, frontal operculum, hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex largely increased over time, arguably representing the key whole-brain mechanisms for conscious recognition of auditory patterns as predicted by the global neuronal workspace hypothesis. In conclusion, our study described the fine-grained whole-brain activity and functional connectivity dynamics responsible for processing and recognition of previously memorized music. Further, the study highlights how the use of musical patterns in combination with a wide array of analytical tools and neuroscientific measures spanning from decoding to fast neural phase synchronization can shed new light on meaningful, complex cognitive processes.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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