Brain functions and music plays together

This serie shows how the cortex is activated during
listening to a piece of Argentinian tango.
It is based on functional magnetic resonance imaging
(fMRI) data, computational musical feature
 extraction and statistical modeling.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, the research team in the University of Jyväskylä recorded the brain responses of individuals who were listening to a piece of modern Argentinian tango, reported journal NeuroImage, 11/2011.
Subsequently, using sophisticated computer algorithms, they analyzed the musical content of the tango, showing how its rhythmic, tonal and timbral components evolve over time.
This was the first time accoding to by Dr. Vinoo Alluri when the University of Jyväskyläsuch a study has been carried out using real music instead of artificially constructed music-like sound stimuli. Comparison of the brain responses and the musical features revealed many interesting things.

One is found that music listening recruits not only the auditory areas of the brain, but also employs large-scale neural networks.
For instance, they discovered that the processing of musical pulse recruits motor areas in the brain, supporting the idea that music and movement are closely intertwined. Limbic areas of the brain, known to be associated with emotions, were found to be involved in rhythm and tonality processing.
This is the truth that already by Dr. Rudolf Steiner said, but it is important to verify empirically all of this.

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