Elevated Activity in Left Homologous Music Circuits Is Inhibitory for Music Perception but Mediated by Structure–Function Coupling

Yucheng Wang, Zhishuai Jin, Sizhu Huyang, Qiaoping Lian, Daxing Wu · 2024

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Yucheng Wang and co-authors probed why some brains hear music poorly in two thousand twenty-four. Music perception rides on right-side frontotemporal circuits. Structure and function there usually align tightly. That alignment itself may track ability better. Over one hundred volunteers took a standard amusia battery. Brain scans supplied many candidate measures.

Support vector models linked measures to scores. Left-side mirror circuits showed a surprise pattern. Extra activity there actually hurt perception. Structure-function coupling mediated the effect. More left activity is not always better, it seems. The result refines how clinicians read music deficits. Coupling measures earn a place in brain-behavior studies.

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CREATORYucheng Wang, Zhishuai Jin, Sizhu Huyang, Qiaoping Lian, Daxing Wu
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE34 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11671239

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