Artigo Revisado por pares

fMRI study relevant to the Mozart effect: Brain areas involved in spatial–temporal reasoning

2001; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 23; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1179/016164101101199108

ISSN

1743-1328

Autores

Mark Bodner, L. Tugan Muftuler, Orhan Nalcioğlu, Gordon L. Shaw,

Tópico(s)

Music Therapy and Health

Resumo

AbstractBehavioral studies, motivated by columnar cortical model predictions, have given evidence for music causally enhancing spatial–temporal reasoning. A wide range of behavioral experiments showed that listening to a Mozart Sonata (K.448) gave subsequent enhancements. An EEG coherence study gave evidence for a carryover from that Mozart Sonata listening condition to the subsequent spatial–temporal task in specific cortical regions. Here we present fMRI studies comparing cortical blood flow activation by the Mozart Sonata vs. other music. In addition to expected temporal cortex activation, we report dramatic statistically significant differences in activation by the Mozart Sonata (in comparison to Beethoven's Fur Elise and 1930s piano music) in dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex, occipital cortex and cerebellum, all expected to be important for spatial–temporal reasoning. It would be of great interest to explicitly test this expectation. We propose an fMRI study comparing (subject by subject) brain areas activated in music listening conditions and in spatial–temporal tasks. [Neurol Res 2001; 23: 683-690] Keywords: FMRISPATIAL-TEMPORAL REASONINGMOZART EFFECTTRIONCOLUMNAR CORTICAL MODEL

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