For more than one century, brain processing was mainly thought in a localizationist
framework, in which one given function was underpinned by a discrete, isolated cortical …

Scientific interest in expertise—superior performance within a specific domain—has a long
history in psychology. Although there is a broad consensus that a long period of practice is …

Evidence suggests that learning to play music enhances musical processing skills and
benefits other cognitive abilities. Furthermore, studies of children and adults indicate that the …

Several studies comparing adult musicians and nonmusicians have shown that music
training is associated with structural brain differences. It is not been established, however …

Emotion-related areas of the brain, such as the medial frontal cortices, amygdala and
striatum are activated during listening to sad or happy music as well as during listening to …

The origin, structure, and function of the claustrum, as well as its role in neural computation,
have remained a mystery since its discovery in the 17th century. Assessing the in vivo …

Expertise and training in fine motor skills has been associated with changes in brain
structure, function, and connectivity. Fewer studies have explored the neural effects of …

Learning to play an instrument at an advanced age may help to counteract or slow down
age-related cognitive decline. However, studies investigating the neural underpinnings of …

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

Correlation of spontaneous fluctuations at rest between anatomically distinct brain areas are
proposed to reflect the profile of individual a priori cognitive biases, coded as synaptic …