BMC Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
25(1)
Published: Nov. 6, 2024
This
editorial
provides
a
background
and
overview
of
the
interdisciplinary
workshop
on
"The
Social
Neural
Bases
Creative
Movement,"
bringing
together
dancers,
choreographers,
musicians,
artists,
kinesiologists
neuroscientists
to
share
perspectives
develop
common
language
define
explore
relationship
between
dance
brain.
Cortex,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
174, P. 137 - 148
Published: March 9, 2024
Attention
is
not
constant
but
rather
fluctuates
over
time
and
these
attentional
fluctuations
may
prioritize
the
processing
of
certain
events
others.
In
music
listening,
pleasurable
urge
to
move
(termed
'groove'
by
psychologists)
offers
a
particularly
convenient
case
study
oscillatory
attention
because
it
engenders
synchronous
movements
which
also
vary
predictably
with
stimulus
complexity.
this
study,
we
simultaneously
recorded
pupillometry
scalp
electroencephalography
(EEG)
from
participants
while
they
listened
drumbeats
varying
complexity
that
rated
in
terms
groove
afterwards.
Using
intertrial
phase
coherence
beat
frequency,
found
subjects
were
their
pupil
activity
became
entrained
persisted
EEG
even
as
imagined
continuing
through
subsequent
silent
periods.
This
entrainment
both
worsened
increasing
rhythmic
complexity,
indicating
poorer
sensory
precision
more
obscured.
Additionally,
sustained
dilations
revealed
expected,
inverted
U-shaped
relationship
between
ratings.
Taken
together,
work
bridges
relation
musical
groove.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 106111 - 106111
Published: March 1, 2025
Hemispheric
lateralization
in
speech
and
language
processing
exemplifies
functional
brain
specialization.
Seminal
work
patients
with
left
hemisphere
damage
highlighted
the
left-hemispheric
dominance
functions.
However,
is
not
confined
to
hemisphere.
Hence,
some
researchers
associate
auditory
asymmetries:
slow
temporal
fine
spectral
acoustic
information
preferentially
processed
right
regions,
while
faster
primarily
handled
by
regions.
Other
scholars
posit
that
relates
more
linguistic
processing,
particularly
for
speech-like
stimuli.
We
argue
these
seemingly
distinct
accounts
are
interdependent.
Linguistic
analysis
of
relies
on
top-down
processes,
such
as
predictive
coding
dimension-selective
attention,
which
enhance
lateralized
engaging
left-lateralized
sensorimotor
networks.
Our
review
highlights
weaker
simple
sounds,
stronger
strongest
meaningful
speech.
Evidence
shows
selective
attention
lateralization.
illustrate
processes
rely
networks
provide
insights
into
role
processing.
NeuroImage,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 121209 - 121209
Published: April 1, 2025
The
human
cortex
is
highly
dynamic
as
manifest
in
its
vast
ongoing
temporal
repertoire.
Similarly,
behavior
also
variable
over
time
with,
for
instance,
fluctuating
response
times.
How
the
brain's
dynamics
relates
to
of
such
emotions
remains
yet
unclear,
though.
We
measure
median
frequency
(MF)
a
way
(D-MF)
investigate
both
EEG
neural
activity
and
subjects'
continuous
behavioral
assessment
their
perceived
emotional
engagement
changes
during
five
different
music
pieces.
Our
main
findings
are:
(i)
significant
differences
dynamics,
e.g.,
D-MF,
ratings
between
pieces,
(ii)
the,
pieces'
EEG-based
activity,
(iii)
there
unidirectional
relationship
from
pieces
measured
through
correlation
Granger
causality
respective
D-MF's.
Together,
we
demonstrate
that
shared
fluctuations
dynamics.
This
highlights
key
role
connecting
"common
currency"
(Northoff
et
al.
2020,
2024).
Research Square (Research Square),
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 21, 2025
Abstract
Multiple
brain
areas
along
the
ventral
pathway
have
been
known
to
represent
face
images.
Here,
in
a
magnetoencephalography
(MEG)
experiment,
we
show
dynamic
representations
of
face-related
eye
movements
absence
image
perception.
Participants
followed
dot
presented
on
uniform
background,
movement
which
represented
gaze
tracks
acquired
previously
during
their
free-viewing
and
house
pictures.
We
found
dominant
role
stream
representing
tracks,
starting
from
orbitofrontal
cortex
(OFC)
anterior
temporal
lobe
(ATL),
extending
medial
occipitotemporal
cortex.
Our
findings
that
represents
used
explore
faces,
by
top-down
prediction
category
OFC
ATL
may
guide,
via
or
directly,
perception
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 13, 2025
Abstract
Multiple
brain
areas
along
the
ventral
pathway
have
been
known
to
represent
face
images.
Here,
in
a
magnetoencephalography
(MEG)
experiment,
we
show
dynamic
representations
of
face-related
eye
movements
absence
image
perception.
Participants
followed
dot
presented
on
uniform
background,
movement
which
represented
gaze
tracks
acquired
previously
during
their
free-viewing
and
house
pictures.
We
found
dominant
role
stream
representing
tracks,
starting
from
orbitofrontal
cortex
(OFC)
anterior
temporal
lobe
(ATL),
extending
medial
occipitotemporal
cortex.
Our
findings
that
represents
used
explore
faces,
by
top-down
prediction
category
OFC
ATL
may
guide,
via
or
directly,
perception
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
292(2044)
Published: April 1, 2025
The
motor
system
is
known
to
process
temporal
information,
and
moving
rhythmically
while
listening
a
melody
can
improve
auditory
processing.
In
three
interrelated
behavioural
experiments,
we
demonstrate
that
this
effect
translates
speech
Motor
priming
improves
the
efficiency
of
subsequent
naturalistic
speech-in-noise
processing
under
specific
conditions.
(i)
Moving
at
lexical
rate
(~1.8
Hz)
significantly
compared
other
rates,
such
as
phrasal
or
syllabic
rates.
(ii)
impact
rhythmic
not
influenced
by
whether
it
self-generated
triggered
an
beat.
(iii)
Overt
vocalization,
regardless
its
semantic
content,
also
enhances
These
findings
provide
evidence
for
functional
role
in
dynamics
speech.
Cognition,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
248, P. 105793 - 105793
Published: April 17, 2024
Speech
comprehension
is
enhanced
when
preceded
(or
accompanied)
by
a
congruent
rhythmic
prime
reflecting
the
metrical
sentence
structure.
Although
these
phenomena
have
been
described
for
auditory
and
motor
primes
separately,
their
respective
synergistic
contribution
has
not
addressed.
In
this
experiment,
participants
performed
speech
task
on
degraded
signals
that
were
could
be
auditory,
or
audiomotor.
Both
audiomotor
facilitated
speed.
While
presence
of
purely
(unpaced
tapping)
did
globally
benefit
comprehension,
accuracy
scaled
with
regularity
tapping.
order
to
investigate
inter-individual
variability,
also
Spontaneous
Synchronization
test.
The
strength
estimated
perception-production
coupling
correlated
positively
overall
scores.
These
findings
are
discussed
in
framework
dynamic
attending
active
sensing
theories.
There
is
a
broad
consensus
in
groove
research
that
the
experience
of
groove,
understood
as
pleasurable
urge
to
move
response
music,
related
complexity
rhythm.
Specifically,
music
with
medium
rhythmic
has
been
found
motivate
greater
compared
low
or
high
(inverted-U
hypothesis).
Previous
studies
used
degrees
syncopation
measure
complexity,
where
rhythms
more
and/or
stronger
syncopations
are
considered
be
complex
than
less/weaker
syncopations.
This
study
first
attempt
verification
inverted-U
hypothesis
using
forty
idiomatic
popular
drum
pattern
stimuli
associated
perceptual
measures
obtained
previous
study.
In
listening
experiment
n=179
participants,
could
not
confirmed
did
have
any
significant
effect
on
listeners’
(p=.834).
Results
discussed
context
psychological
model
musical
which
shows
heard
less
regular
(which
negatively
affects
move),
and
interesting
positively
move).
These
findings
show
competent
drummers
capable
producing
equally
danceable
patterns
regardless
at
least
range
for
this
repertoire.
also
suggest
temporal
regularity
simple
enhances
their
danceability,
while
invite
body
movement
because
they
listener.