Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion
- A. Blood, R. Zatorre
- Psychology, BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 25 September 2001
This finding links music with biologically relevant, survival-related stimuli via their common recruitment of brain circuitry involved in pleasure and reward.
Voice-selective areas in human auditory cortex
- P. Belin, R. Zatorre, Philippe Lafaille, P. Ahad, B. Pike
- Psychology, BiologyNature
- 20 January 2000
It is shown, using functional magnetic resonance imaging in human volunteers, that voice-selective regions can be found bilaterally along the upper bank of the superior temporal sulcus (STS), and their existence sheds new light on the functional architecture of the human auditory cortex.
Structure and function of auditory cortex: music and speech
- R. Zatorre, P. Belin, V. Penhune
- PhysicsTrends in Cognitive Sciences
- 1 January 2002
When the brain plays music: auditory–motor interactions in music perception and production
- R. Zatorre, Joyce L. Chen, V. Penhune
- Psychology, BiologyNature Reviews Neuroscience
- 1 July 2007
This work reviews the cognitive neuroscience literature of both motor and auditory domains, highlighting the value of studying interactions between these systems in a musical context, and proposes some ideas concerning the role of the premotor cortex in integration of higher order features of music with appropriately timed and organized actions.
Plasticity in gray and white: neuroimaging changes in brain structure during learning
- R. Zatorre, R. Fields, H. Johansen-Berg
- BiologyNature Neuroscience
- 1 April 2012
Human brain imaging findings of structural plasticity are reviewed and cellular and molecular level changes that could underlie observed imaging effects are discussed, to facilitate cross-talk between cellular and systems level explanations of how learning sculpts brain structure.
Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music
- V. Salimpoor, M. Benovoy, K. Larcher, A. Dagher, R. Zatorre
- Psychology, BiologyNature Neuroscience
- 1 February 2011
It is found that intense pleasure in response to music can lead to dopamine release in the striatal system, and this results help to explain why music is of such high value across all human societies.
Lateralization of phonetic and pitch discrimination in speech processing.
- R. Zatorre, Alan C. Evans, E. Meyer, A. Gjedde
- Psychology, BiologyScience
- 8 May 1992
Processing changes in pitch produced activation of the right prefrontal cortex, consistent with the importance of right-hemisphere mechanisms in pitch perception.
Spectral and temporal processing in human auditory cortex.
- R. Zatorre, P. Belin
- PhysicsCerebral Cortex
- 1 October 2001
Results indicated that the core auditory cortex in both hemispheres responded to temporal variation, while the anterior superior temporal areas bilaterally responded to the spectral variation, confirming the specialization of the left-hemisphere auditory cortex for rapid temporal processing.
Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions
- A. Blood, R. Zatorre, P. Bermudez, Alan C. Evans
- PsychologyNature Neuroscience
- 30 March 1999
The findings suggest that music may recruit neural mechanisms similar to those previously associated with pleasant/unpleasant emotional states, but different from those underlying other components of music perception, and other emotions such as fear.
Interhemispheric anatomical differences in human primary auditory cortex: probabilistic mapping and volume measurement from magnetic resonance scans.
- V. Penhune, R. Zatorre, J. MacDonald, Alan C. Evans
- PsychologyCerebral Cortex
- 1 September 1996
A preferential role for left PAC in processing temporal aspects of auditory stimuli is suggested and a probabilistic map of the region is produced which can be co-registered with any image of brain structure or function that has been similarly transformed.
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