FMRI study relevant to the Mozart effect: brain areas involved in spatial-temporal reasoning. Neurol Res 2001 Oct;23(7):683-90
Date
10/30/2001Pubmed ID
11680506DOI
10.1179/016164101101199108Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0034791041 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 66 CitationsAbstract
Behavioral studies, motivated by columnar cortical model predictions, have given evidence for music causally enhancing spatial-temporal reasoning. A wide range of behavioral experiments showed that listening to a Mozart Sonata (K.448) gave subsequent enhancements. An EEG coherence study gave evidence for a carryover from that Mozart Sonata listening condition to the subsequent spatial-temporal task in specific cortical regions. Here we present fMRI studies comparing cortical blood flow activation by the Mozart Sonata vs. other music. In addition to expected temporal cortex activation, we report dramatic statistically significant differences in activation by the Mozart Sonata (in comparison to Beethoven's Fur Elise and 1930s piano music) in dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex, occipital cortex and cerebellum, all expected to be important for spatial-temporal reasoning. It would be of great interest to explicitly test this expectation. We propose an fMRI study comparing (subject by subject) brain areas activated in music listening conditions and in spatial-temporal tasks.
Author List
Bodner M, Muftuler LT, Nalcioglu O, Shaw GLAuthor
Lutfi Tugan Muftuler PhD Professor in the Neurosurgery department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Acoustic StimulationAuditory Perception
Brain
Cerebellum
Cerebrovascular Circulation
Cognition
Female
Functional Laterality
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Music
Music Therapy
Nerve Net
Prefrontal Cortex
Space Perception
Time Perception
Visual Cortex