The brain basis behind musical competence in its various forms is not yet known. To
determine the pattern of hemispheric lateralization during sound‐change discrimination, we …

At the level of the auditory cortex, musicians discriminate pitch changes more accurately
than nonmusicians. However, it is not agreed upon how sound familiarity and musical …

The ability to perceive sounds and correctly categorize them within a scale is the result of the
interaction between inherited capabilities and acquired rules. If a subject listens to a melody …

Music consists of a variety of spectral and temporal features. Generally, brain processing of
these features is reported as being right hemisphere dominant. However, there are …

Musicians' skills in auditory processing depend highly on instrument, performance practice,
and on level of expertise. Yet, it is not known though whether the style/genre of music might …

Playing an instrument requires the ability to read musical notation and to translate it into
sequential and independent bimanual motor actions while receiving and responding to multi …

Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we investigated the influence of long term musical
training on the processing of partly imagined tone patterns (imagery condition) compared to …

The ability to recognize metric accents is fundamental in both music and language
perception. It has been suggested that music listeners prefer rhythms that follow simple …

The present study addressed the effects of musicianship on neural and behavioral
discrimination of Western music chords. In abstract oddball paradigms, minor chords and …

Two same/different discrimination tasks were performed by amateur-musician subjects in
this functional magnetic resonance imaging study: Melody Discrimination and Harmony …