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Musical instrumental reading affects middle cerebral blood flow and cognitive function

Playing a musical instrument includes reading music scores, playing, and listening in parallel. It is unclear which of these activities are responsible for an increase in cerebral blood flow. We investigated the factors increasing middle cerebral artery velocity (MCAv) during musical performance, an...

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Autores principales: Kawasaki, Ai, Hayashi, Naoyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9465479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36105277
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.966969
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description Playing a musical instrument includes reading music scores, playing, and listening in parallel. It is unclear which of these activities are responsible for an increase in cerebral blood flow. We investigated the factors increasing middle cerebral artery velocity (MCAv) during musical performance, and examined whether playing and reading music affects cognitive function. Seventeen musicians played an instrument with reading music, played music from memory, and read music scores in a randomized order, for 10 min each. The MCAv was continuously recorded from 5 min before to 10 min after the performance. A Stroop test was performed before and after performance. The MCAv increased significantly with reading music, playing from memory, and reading music. Stroop test scores increased significantly after music reading. These findings suggest that both music reading and playing an instrument are involved in the increase in MCAv during music performance. Cognitive function was transiently improved by playing musical instruments.
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spelling pubmed-94654792022-09-13 Musical instrumental reading affects middle cerebral blood flow and cognitive function Kawasaki, Ai Hayashi, Naoyuki Front Physiol Physiology Playing a musical instrument includes reading music scores, playing, and listening in parallel. It is unclear which of these activities are responsible for an increase in cerebral blood flow. We investigated the factors increasing middle cerebral artery velocity (MCAv) during musical performance, and examined whether playing and reading music affects cognitive function. Seventeen musicians played an instrument with reading music, played music from memory, and read music scores in a randomized order, for 10 min each. The MCAv was continuously recorded from 5 min before to 10 min after the performance. A Stroop test was performed before and after performance. The MCAv increased significantly with reading music, playing from memory, and reading music. Stroop test scores increased significantly after music reading. These findings suggest that both music reading and playing an instrument are involved in the increase in MCAv during music performance. Cognitive function was transiently improved by playing musical instruments. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9465479/ /pubmed/36105277 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.966969 Text en Copyright © 2022 Kawasaki and Hayashi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_full_unstemmed Musical instrumental reading affects middle cerebral blood flow and cognitive function
title_short Musical instrumental reading affects middle cerebral blood flow and cognitive function
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9465479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36105277
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