Listening to musical rhythms recruits motor regions of the brain.

By Joyce L. Chen, Virginia B. Penhune, Robert J. Zatorre. Cerebral Cortex, 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language (2010, background): “The inferior frontal area also provides a common substrate for processing grammatical sentences and familiar musical sequence”
Being Together in Time: Musical Experience and the Mirror Neuron System (2009, background): “…with motor regions of the brain strongly implicated in the detection of pulse and metre (e.g., Grahn & Brett, 2007; Phillips-Silver & Trainor, 2007; Chen et al., 2008), and the concept of ‘prediction’ emerging as a key mechanism, from neural oscillation and dynamic attending theories (see Large,…”
Synchrony as an Adaptive Mechanism for Large-Scale Human Social Bonding (2016, positive): “…linked via self-other coupling it is feasible that musical sounds, by virtue of the identification of agency, and musical rhythm (Zatorre et al. 2007; which engages motor regions of the brain: Chen et al. 2008) leads to some imagined protosocial experience, and this has some influence on the EOS.”
Multisensory Stimulation in Stroke Rehabilitation (2012, background): “Listening to rhythm activates motor and premotor cortices (Zatorre et al., 2007; Chen et al., 2008; Bengtsson et al., 2009), and rhythmic auditory stimulation and musical motor feedback can improve gait and arm training (Schauer and Mauritz, 2003; Thaut et al.”
Musical training as a framework for brain plasticity: behavior, function, and structure. (2012, background): “…the auditory and sensorimotor systems are closely linked not only in actual instrumental practice, but also in mere perception of music (Zatorre et al., 2007), and coactivation of the respective other modality can be observed during listening, for example, to musical rhythms (Chen et al., 2008a ).”
Pitch discrimination in cerebellar patients: evidence for a sensory deficit. (2009, neutral): “…1997), attentional and executive control (Hallett and Grafman, 1997; Akshoomoff et al., 1997; Bellebaum and Daum, 2007), verbal working memory (Chen et al., 2008; Ravizza et al., 2006; Ben-Yehudah et al., 2007), speech production and perception (Ackermann et al., 2007; Ackermann, 2008),…”
The evolutionary neuroscience of musical beat perception: the Action Simulation for Auditory Prediction (ASAP) hypothesis (2013, background): “Music exists in every human culture, and every culture has some form of music with a beat: a perceived periodic pulse that listeners use to guide their movements and performers use to coordinate their actions (Nettl, 2000; Brown and Jordania, 2013).”
Finding the beat: a neural perspective across humans and non-human primates (2015, background): “Subcortical structures include the cerebellum, the basal ganglia (most often the putamen, also caudate nucleus and globus pallidus) and thalamus, and cortical areas include the supplementary motor area (SMA) and pre-SMA, premotor cortex (PMC), as well as auditory cortex [12,26–37].”