Musikalische Erfahrung prägt die neuronale Verarbeitung

Translated title of the contribution: Musical Experience Shapes Neural Processing Temporal Precision in Professional Drummers

Wido Nager*, Tilla Franke, Tobias Wagner-Altendorf, Eckart Altenmüller, Thomas F. Münte

*Corresponding author for this work

    Abstract

    Playing a musical instrument professionally has been shown to lead to structural and functional neural adaptations, making musicians valuable subjects for neuroplasticity research. Here, we follow the hypothesis that specifi c musical demands further shape neural processing. To test this assumption, we subjected groups of professional drummers, professional woodwind players, and nonmusicians to pure tone sequences and drum sequences in which infrequent anticipations of tones or drum beats had been inserted. Passively listening to these sequences elicited a mismatch negativity to the temporally deviant stimuli which was greater in the musicians for tone series and particularly large for drummers for drum sequences. In active listening conditions drummers more accurately and more quickly detected temporally deviant stimuli.

    Translated title of the contributionMusical Experience Shapes Neural Processing Temporal Precision in Professional Drummers
    Original languageGerman
    JournalZeitschrift fur Neuropsychologie
    Volume31
    Issue number2
    Pages (from-to)81-86
    Number of pages6
    ISSN1016-264X
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 06.2020

    Research Areas and Centers

    • Academic Focus: Center for Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM)

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