The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music

386      Figure 25.1Short-term plasticity effect of the auditory cortex induced by notched music. ...

    387 Cortical plasticity and musical training Somatosensory representations Two groups of su ...

388      were somewhat smaller, but still larger than those observed in the control subjects who ...

    389 The acoustic stimulation consisted of a pseudorandom sequence of four piano tones (C4–C ...

390      correlated to the number of hours played per week, but rather to the age at which the tr ...

The fact that the degree of expansion of the neuronal representations depends on the age training is started suggests that the e ...

392      disorder and the involuntary lack of movement coordination, it was thought that a behavi ...

end of treatment, up into the normal range. Neuroimaging results obtained in successfully treated subjects indicated normalizati ...

3.Elbert, T.,et al. (1995) The separation of overlapping neuromagnetic sources in first and second somatosensory cortices.Brain ...

25.Rossini, P. M.,et al. (1994) Short-term brain ‘plasticity’in humans: transient finger representa- tion changes in sensory cor ...

 26 THE BRAIN THAT MAKES MUSIC AND IS CHANGED BY IT  - Abstract Playing a musical instrument demands ex ...

    397 to be exquisitely coordinated. At the beginning, the limbs move slowly, with fluctuating accuracy and ...

398      consecutive days, and each day they had a two-hour practice session followed by a test. ...

days. As the subjects’performance improved, the threshold for TMS activation of the fin- ger flexor and extensor muscles decreas ...

400      more leading role in task performance. This might result in the decreasing size of the c ...

    401 modulation of cortical outputs might be induced by changes in the subject’s strategy as explicit lear ...

402      similar improvement in their ability to perform the five-finger movement exercise (Figur ...

The risk of the change: sensorimotor mismatch and task-induced dystonia As we have seen, skill acquisition requires plastic chan ...

404      various digits function as a unit, such as arpeggios, could eventually induce changes in ...

    405 inputs could potentially lead to poorly differentiated control of motor representations and be the me ...