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Observation of sonified movements engages a basal ganglia frontocortical network
BACKGROUND: Producing sounds by a musical instrument can lead to audiomotor coupling, i.e. the joint activation of the auditory and motor system, even when only one modality is probed. The sonification of otherwise mute movements by sounds based on kinematic parameters of the movement has been shown...
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2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3602090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23496827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-14-32 |
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author | Schmitz, Gerd Mohammadi, Bahram Hammer, Anke Heldmann, Marcus Samii, Amir Münte, Thomas F Effenberg, Alfred O |
author_facet | Schmitz, Gerd Mohammadi, Bahram Hammer, Anke Heldmann, Marcus Samii, Amir Münte, Thomas F Effenberg, Alfred O |
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description | BACKGROUND: Producing sounds by a musical instrument can lead to audiomotor coupling, i.e. the joint activation of the auditory and motor system, even when only one modality is probed. The sonification of otherwise mute movements by sounds based on kinematic parameters of the movement has been shown to improve motor performance and perception of movements. RESULTS: Here we demonstrate in a group of healthy young non-athletes that congruently (sounds match visual movement kinematics) vs. incongruently (no match) sonified breaststroke movements of a human avatar lead to better perceptual judgement of small differences in movement velocity. Moreover, functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed enhanced activity in superior and medial posterior temporal regions including the superior temporal sulcus, known as an important multisensory integration site, as well as the insula bilaterally and the precentral gyrus on the right side. Functional connectivity analysis revealed pronounced connectivity of the STS with the basal ganglia and thalamus as well as frontal motor regions for the congruent stimuli. This was not seen to the same extent for the incongruent stimuli. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that sonification of movements amplifies the activity of the human action observation system including subcortical structures of the motor loop. Sonification may thus be an important method to enhance training and therapy effects in sports science and neurological rehabilitation. |
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spelling | pubmed-36020902013-03-20 Observation of sonified movements engages a basal ganglia frontocortical network Schmitz, Gerd Mohammadi, Bahram Hammer, Anke Heldmann, Marcus Samii, Amir Münte, Thomas F Effenberg, Alfred O BMC Neurosci Research Article BACKGROUND: Producing sounds by a musical instrument can lead to audiomotor coupling, i.e. the joint activation of the auditory and motor system, even when only one modality is probed. The sonification of otherwise mute movements by sounds based on kinematic parameters of the movement has been shown to improve motor performance and perception of movements. RESULTS: Here we demonstrate in a group of healthy young non-athletes that congruently (sounds match visual movement kinematics) vs. incongruently (no match) sonified breaststroke movements of a human avatar lead to better perceptual judgement of small differences in movement velocity. Moreover, functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed enhanced activity in superior and medial posterior temporal regions including the superior temporal sulcus, known as an important multisensory integration site, as well as the insula bilaterally and the precentral gyrus on the right side. Functional connectivity analysis revealed pronounced connectivity of the STS with the basal ganglia and thalamus as well as frontal motor regions for the congruent stimuli. This was not seen to the same extent for the incongruent stimuli. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that sonification of movements amplifies the activity of the human action observation system including subcortical structures of the motor loop. Sonification may thus be an important method to enhance training and therapy effects in sports science and neurological rehabilitation. BioMed Central 2013-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3602090/ /pubmed/23496827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-14-32 Text en Copyright ©2013 Schmitz et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Schmitz, Gerd Mohammadi, Bahram Hammer, Anke Heldmann, Marcus Samii, Amir Münte, Thomas F Effenberg, Alfred O Observation of sonified movements engages a basal ganglia frontocortical network |
title | Observation of sonified movements engages a basal ganglia frontocortical network |
title_full | Observation of sonified movements engages a basal ganglia frontocortical network |
title_fullStr | Observation of sonified movements engages a basal ganglia frontocortical network |
title_full_unstemmed | Observation of sonified movements engages a basal ganglia frontocortical network |
title_short | Observation of sonified movements engages a basal ganglia frontocortical network |
title_sort | observation of sonified movements engages a basal ganglia frontocortical network |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3602090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23496827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-14-32 |
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