A network for sensory-motor integration: what happens in the auditory cortex during piano playing without acoustic feedback?

Simon Baumann; Susan Koeneke; Martin Meyer; Kai Lutz; Lutz Jäncke

doi:10.1196/annals.1360.038

A network for sensory-motor integration: what happens in the auditory cortex during piano playing without acoustic feedback?

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005 Dec:1060:186-8. doi: 10.1196/annals.1360.038.

Authors

Simon Baumann¹, Susan Koeneke, Martin Meyer, Kai Lutz, Lutz Jäncke

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neuropsychology, University of Zurich, Treichlerstrasse 10, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland. s.baumann@psychologie.unizh.ch

PMID: 16597763
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1360.038

Abstract

Playing a musical instrument requires efficient auditory as well as motor processing. We provide evidence for the existence of a neuronal network of secondary and higher-order areas belonging to the auditory and motor modality that is important in the integration of auditory and motor domains.

MeSH terms

Acoustic Stimulation
Auditory Cortex / anatomy & histology*
Auditory Pathways / physiology*
Auditory Perception
Brain / pathology
Brain Mapping
Functional Laterality / physiology
Hearing
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Motor Cortex / anatomy & histology
Music*
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
Neurons
Psychomotor Performance