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

Behavioral 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 evidenc...

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Published in:Neurological research (New York) 2001-10, Vol.23 (7), p.683-690
Main Authors: Bodner, Mark, Muftuler, L. Tugan, Nalcioglu, Orhan, Shaw, Gordon L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic Stimulation - methods
Auditory Perception - physiology
Brain - anatomy & histology
Brain - physiology
Cerebellum - physiology
Cerebrovascular Circulation - physiology
Cognition - physiology
COLUMNAR CORTICAL MODEL
Female
FMRI
Functional Laterality - physiology
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MOZART EFFECT
Music - psychology
Music Therapy - methods
Nerve Net - anatomy & histology
Nerve Net - physiology
Prefrontal Cortex - anatomy & histology
Prefrontal Cortex - physiology
Space Perception - physiology
SPATIAL-TEMPORAL REASONING
Time Perception - physiology
TRION
Visual Cortex - anatomy & histology
Visual Cortex - physiology
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Summary:Behavioral 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]
ISSN:0161-6412
1743-1328
DOI:10.1179/016164101101199108