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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

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Research Areas and Centers

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

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