Through long-term training, music experts acquire complex and specialized sensorimotor
skills, which are paralleled by continuous neuro-anatomical and-functional adaptations. The …

Learning to play a musical instrument is a complex task that integrates multiple sensory
modalities and higher-order cognitive functions. Therefore, musical training is considered a …

Playing a musical instrument at a professional level is a complex multimodal task requiring
information integration between different brain regions supporting auditory, somatosensory …

Background Professional musicians are a model population for exploring basic auditory
function, sensorimotor and multisensory integration, and training-induced neuroplasticity …

Statistical learning is a cognitive process of great importance for the detection and
representation of environmental regularities. Complex cognitive processes such as …

Modern music therapy, starting around the middle of the twentieth century was primarily
conceived to promote emotional well-being and to facilitate social group association and …

Professional musicians are a popular model for investigating experience-dependent
plasticity in human large-scale brain networks. A minority of musicians possess absolute …

Acquired amusia provides a unique opportunity to investigate the fundamental neural
architectures of musical processing due to the transition from a functioning to defective …

The aim of this study was to explore whether musical practice-related gray matter increases
in brain regions are accompanied by modifications in their resting-state functional …

Comparisons of musicians and non‐musicians have revealed enhanced cognitive and
sensory processing in musicians, with longitudinal studies suggesting these enhancements …