WSEAS Transactions on Acoustics and Music
Print ISSN: 1109-9577
Volume 4, 2017
Comparative analysis of brain activation in trained musicians during attentive motionless listening of regular and irregular rhythmic patterns
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Abstract: Professional musicians have learned to perceive music using different strategies; one of them is rhythmic grouping, commonly referred as rhythmic perception. Specifically, most studies suggest that perception of regular rhythmic patterns in musicians favors a specialization of the left hemisphere. This paper suggests that the use of irregular rhythmic sequences favour an activation of different brain areas from those observed in previous studies during perception of regular rhythmic sequences.