Reading sheet music facilitates sensorimotor mu-desynchronization in musicians

• Published in: Clinical neurophysiology Vol. 122; no. 7; pp. 1342 - 1347
• Main Authors: Behmer, Lawrence Paul, Jantzen, Kelly J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ireland Ltd 01.07.2011; Elsevier
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain Mapping; Cortical Synchronization - physiology; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Electrodiagnosis. Electric activity recording; Electroencephalography; Electrophysiology; Event related desynchronization; Expertise; Female; Functional Laterality - physiology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Human mirror system; Humans; Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects); Male; Medical sciences; Motor Cortex - physiology; Mu rhythm; Music - psychology; Nervous system; Neurology; Perception-action; Photic Stimulation; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reading; Recruitment, Neurophysiological - physiology; Sensorimotor integration; Somatosensory Cortex - physiology; Visual Perception - physiology; Young Adult; Sheet music; Human mirror system; Perception-action; Sensorimotor integration; Event related desynchronization; Electroencephalography; Expertise; Mu rhythm; Central nervous system; Electrophysiology; Encephalon; Electrodiagnosis; Sensorimotor coordination; Musician; Desynchronization; Triggering; Human; Immunopathology; Rhythm; AIDS; Immune deficiency; Infection; Viral disease; Music; Perception; Performance
• ISSN: 1388-2457; 1872-8952
• DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.12.035

Highlights ► This work demonstrates the important role of the human motor system in perception and understanding. ► The data support the general theory that experience allows for the formation of functional links between arbitrary, abstract percepts and associated acts. ► The important role of the motor system in perception and cognition should be considered in clinical evaluation and treatment of movement disorders.