145 results match your criteria: "Institute of Music Physiology[Affiliation]"
PLoS One
May 2015
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Hanover, Germany.
We present a study of coordination behavior in complex violin-bowing patterns involving simultaneous bow changes (reversal of bowing direction) and string crossings (changing from one string to another). Twenty-two violinists (8 advanced amateurs, 8 students with violin as major subject, and 6 elite professionals) participated in the experiment. We investigated the influence of a variety of performance conditions (specific bowing patterns, dynamic level, tempo, and transposition) and level of expertise on coordination behavior (a.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Neurosci
July 2014
Institute of Music Physiology and Musician's Medicine (MMM), University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover Hannover, Germany.
This review presents an overview of the use of music therapy in neurological early rehabilitation of patients with coma and other disorders of consciousness (DOC) such as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) or minimally conscious state (MCS). There is evidence that patients suffering from UWS show emotional processing of auditory information, such as listening to speech. Thus, it seems reasonable to believe that music listening-as part of an enriched environment setting-may be of therapeutic value in these patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExp Brain Res
November 2014
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, University of Music, Drama, and Media, Emmichplatz 1, 30175, Hanover, Germany,
Humans are capable of learning a variety of motor skills such as playing the piano. Performance of these skills is subject to multiple constraints, such as musical phrasing or speed requirements, and these constraints vary from one context to another. In order to understand how the brain controls highly skilled movements, we investigated pianists playing musical scales with their left or right hand at various speeds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Neural Transm (Vienna)
March 2015
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media, Hannover, Germany,
Our aim was to address three characteristics of task-specific tremor in musicians (TSTM): First, we quantified muscular activity of flexor and extensor muscles, of coactivation as well as tremor acceleration. Second, we compared muscular activity between task-dependent and position-dependent tremor. Third, we investigated, whether there is an overflow of muscular activity to muscles adjacent to the affected muscles in TSTM.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeuropsychologia
August 2014
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians׳ Medicine, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Emmichplatz 1, 30175 Hanover, Germany. Electronic address:
Numerous studies suggest that dysfunctional basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical circuits are involved in both movement disorders and psychiatric impairments. The current exploratory investigation explored possible psychological differences, firstly between 24 healthy musicians (HM) and 24 musicians diagnosed with focal dystonia (FDM) (Study I), and secondly among 35 FDM patients only (Study II). Results revealed that FDM patients are six times more likely to exhibit elevated anxiety, perfectionistic and stress characteristics than HM.
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June 2014
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, University of Music, Drama, and Media Hanover Hanover, Germany.
Background: Music-supported therapy has been shown to be an effective tool for rehabilitation of motor deficits after stroke. A unique feature of music performance is that it is inherently social: music can be played together in synchrony.
Aim: The present study explored the potential of synchronized music playing during therapy, asking whether synchronized playing could improve fine motor rehabilitation and mood.
Neuroscience
June 2014
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, University of Music, Drama, and Media, Emmichplatz 1, 30175 Hanover, Germany. Electronic address:
Auditory information plays an important role in fine motor control such as speech and musical performance. The purpose of this study was to assess expertise-dependent differences in the role of temporal information of auditory feedback in the production of sequential movements. Differences in motor responses to the transient delay of tone production during musical performance between expert pianists and non-musicians were evaluated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
January 2015
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, University of Music, Drama and Media, Hanover, Germany.
Task-specific focal dystonia is a movement disorder that is characterized by the loss of voluntary motor control in extensively trained movements. Musician's dystonia is a type of task-specific dystonia that is elicited in professional musicians during instrumental playing. The disorder has been associated with deficits in timing.
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March 2014
Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck Lübeck, Germany.
Background: Music can elicit strong emotions and can be remembered in connection with these emotions even decades later. Yet, the brain correlates of episodic memory for highly emotional music compared with less emotional music have not been examined. We therefore used fMRI to investigate brain structures activated by emotional processing of short excerpts of film music successfully retrieved from episodic long-term memory.
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December 2014
Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Auditory Cognition and Psychoacoustics Team, CNRS-UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, University Claude Bernard Lyon-1, Lyon, France.
The human brain is able to predict the sensory effects of its actions. But how precise are these predictions? The present research proposes a tool to measure thresholds between a simple action (keystroke) and a resulting sound. On each trial, participants were required to press a key.
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January 2014
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media Hannover, Germany.
Background: This study investigates the effect of altered auditory feedback (AAF) in musician's dystonia (MD) and discusses whether AAF can be considered as a sensory trick in MD. Furthermore, the effect of AAF is compared with altered tactile feedback, which can serve as a sensory trick in several other forms of focal dystonia.
Methods: The method is based on scale analysis (Jabusch et al.
Parkinsonism Relat Disord
January 2014
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, University of Music, Drama, and Media, Hannover, Germany. Electronic address:
Objective: Musician's dystonia is characterized by loss of voluntary motor control in extensively trained movements on an instrument. The condition is difficult to treat. This retrospective study reports on the interventions received by a homogeneous cohort of pianists with musician's dystonia and the subjective and objective changes reported in task performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeural Netw
December 2013
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, University of Music, Drama, and Media, Emmichplatz 1, 30175 Hannover, Germany. Electronic address:
Task-specific focal dystonia is a task-specific movement disorder which manifests itself as a loss of voluntary motor control in extensively trained movements. The condition is most frequent in musicians. Until today, the aetiology of focal hand dystonia is not completely understood, but there is growing evidence for an abnormal cortical processing of sensory information, as well as degraded representation of motor functions.
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July 2013
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, University of Music, Drama, and Media Hanover, Germany ; Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRS-UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, University Lyon-1 Lyon, France.
Making music on a professional level requires a maximum of sensorimotor precision. Chronotype-dependent fluctuations of sensorimotor precision in the course of the day may prove a challenge for musicians because public performances or recordings are usually scheduled at fixed times of the day. We investigated pianists' sensorimotor timing precision in a scale playing task performed in the morning and in the evening.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Acoust Soc Am
June 2013
Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, Emmichplatz 1, 30175 Hanover, Germany.
Recent motion-capture measurements of violin bowing revealed an interesting coordination behavior in fast repetitive bowing patterns involving bow changes and string crossings; bow changes were consistently lagging behind string crossings, and the relative timing appeared to be an integral part of the bow-movement patterns. The aim of the current study was to investigate if there might be a perceptual explanation for the observed coordination behavior. For this purpose a virtual violin was used, controlled by simulated bowing gestures.
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March 2013
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, University of Music, Drama, and Media Hanover, Germany ; Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRS-UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, University Lyon-1 Lyon, France.
Whatever we do, we do it in our own way, and we recognize master artists by small samples of their work. This study investigates individuality of temporal deviations in musical scales in pianists in the absence of deliberate expressive intention. Note-by-note timing deviations away from regularity form a remarkably consistent "pianistic fingerprint.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Neural Transm (Vienna)
May 2013
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media, Hannover, Germany.
Although subthalamic-deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) is an efficient treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD), its effects on fine motor functions are not clear. We present the case of a professional violinist with PD treated with STN-DBS. DBS improved musical articulation, intonation and emotional expression and worsened timing relative to a timekeeper (metronome).
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November 2012
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover, Germany ; Lyon Neuroscience Research Center CNRS-UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, University Lyon-1 Lyon, France.
We investigated how musical phrasing and motor sequencing interact to yield timing patterns in the conservatory students' playing piano scales. We propose a novel analysis method that compared the measured note onsets to an objectively regular scale fitted to the data. Subsequently, we segment the timing variability into (i) systematic deviations from objective evenness that are perhaps residuals of expressive timing or of perceptual biases and (ii) non-systematic deviations that can be interpreted as motor execution errors, perhaps due to noise in the nervous system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn N Y Acad Sci
April 2012
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media, Hannover, Germany.
Musician's dystonia (MD) is a task-specific movement disorder characterized by a loss of voluntary motor control in highly trained movements like piano playing. Its underlying pathophysiology is defined by deficient functioning of neural pathways at different levels of the central nervous system. However, a few studies have examined the brain responses associated with executive functions such as error monitoring in MD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn N Y Acad Sci
April 2012
Institute of Music Physiology and Musician's Medicine, Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media, Hannover, Germany.
The conference entitled "The Neurosciences and Music-IV: Learning and Memory'' was held at the University of Edinburgh from June 9-12, 2011, jointly hosted by the Mariani Foundation and the Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, and involving nearly 500 international delegates. Two opening workshops, three large and vibrant poster sessions, and nine invited symposia introduced a diverse range of recent research findings and discussed current research directions. Here, the proceedings are introduced by the workshop and symposia leaders on topics including working with children, rhythm perception, language processing, cultural learning, memory, musical imagery, neural plasticity, stroke rehabilitation, autism, and amusia.
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May 2012
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, University of Music, Drama and Media, Hanover, Germany.
Background: Focal dystonia in musicians (MD) is a task-specific movement disorder with a loss of voluntary motor control during instrumental playing. Defective inhibition on different levels of the central nervous system is involved in the pathophysiology. Sensorimotor retraining is a therapeutic approach to MD and aims to establish non-dystonic movements.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMov Disord
February 2011
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media, Hannover, Germany.
Background: Psychological abnormalities, including anxiety, have been observed in patients with musician's dystonia (MD). It is unclear if these conditions develop prior to MD or if they are psychoreactive phenomena.
Methods: Psychological conditions were studied in 44 professional musicians with MD, 45 healthy musicians, and 44 healthy nonmusicians using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI).
Neuroimage
April 2011
Institute of Music Physiology ad Musicians' Medicine, Hanover University of Music and Drama, Hanover, Germany.
Skilled performance requires the ability to monitor ongoing behavior, detect errors in advance and modify the performance accordingly. The acquisition of fast predictive mechanisms might be possible due to the extensive training characterizing expertise performance. Recent EEG studies on piano performance reported a negative event-related potential (ERP) triggered in the ACC 70 ms before performance errors (pitch errors due to incorrect keypress).
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February 2010
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, University of Music and Drama, Hanover, Germany.
Musician's dystonia (MD) is a task-specific movement disorder with a loss of voluntary motor control in highly trained movements. Defective inhibition on different levels of the central nervous system is involved in its pathophysiology. Cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (ctDCS) diminishes excitability of the motor cortex and improves performance in overlearned tasks in healthy subjects.
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July 2009
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, University of Music and Drama Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Motor impairments are common after stroke, but efficacious therapies for these dysfunctions are scarce. By extending an earlier study on the effects of music-supported therapy, behavioral indices of motor function as well as electrophysiological measures were obtained before and after a series of therapy sessions to assess whether this new treatment leads to neural reorganization and motor recovery in patients after stroke. The study group comprised 32 stroke patients in a large rehabilitation hospital; they had moderately impaired motor function and no previous musical experience.
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