Functional Imaging, Institute for Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany.
Neuroimage. 2013 Jul 1;74:37-44. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.02.021. Epub 2013 Feb 20.
Musicians show a remarkable ability to interconnect motor patterns and sensory processing in the somatosensory and auditory domains. Many of these processes are specific for the instrument used. We were interested in the cerebral and cerebellar representations of these instrument-specific changes and therefore applied functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in two groups of instrumentalists with different instrumental training for comparable periods (approximately 15 years). The first group (trumpet players) uses tight finger and lip interaction; the second (pianists as control group) uses only the extremities for performance. fMRI tasks were balanced for instructions (piano and trumpet notes), sensory feedback (keypad and trumpet), and hand-lip interaction on the trumpet. During fMRI, both groups switched between different devices (trumpet or keypad) and performance was combined with or without auditory feedback. Playing the trumpet without any tone emission or using the mouthpiece showed an instrument training-specific activation increase in trumpet players. This was evident for the posterior-superior cerebellar hemisphere, the dominant primary sensorimotor cortex, and the left Heschl's gyrus. Additionally, trumpet players showed increased activity in the bilateral Heschl's gyrus during actual trumpet playing, although they showed significantly decreased loudness while playing with the mouthpiece in the scanner compared to pianists.
音乐家表现出一种非凡的能力,能够将躯体感觉和听觉领域的运动模式和感觉处理相互关联。其中许多过程是特定于所使用的乐器的。我们对这些特定于乐器的变化的大脑和小脑表现感兴趣,因此在两组具有不同乐器训练的乐器演奏者中应用了功能磁共振成像(fMRI),他们的乐器训练时间相当(约 15 年)。第一组(小号演奏者)使用紧密的手指和嘴唇互动;第二组(钢琴演奏者作为对照组)仅使用四肢进行演奏。fMRI 任务平衡了指令(钢琴和小号音符)、感觉反馈(键盘和小号)以及小号上手和唇的互动。在 fMRI 期间,两组人在不同的设备(小号或键盘)之间切换,并在有或没有听觉反馈的情况下进行演奏。小号演奏者在不发出任何音调或使用吹嘴的情况下演奏小号,会表现出特定于乐器训练的激活增加。这在小脑后上半球、主要感觉运动皮层和左侧 Heschl 回中显而易见。此外,小号演奏者在实际演奏小号时双侧 Heschl 回的活动增加,尽管与钢琴演奏者相比,他们在扫描器中用吹嘴演奏时的音量明显降低。