Music and the Cerebellum

Overview

Journal Adv Exp Med Biol

Specialties Biology
General Medicine

Date 2022 Jul 28

PMID 35902473

Authors

Stefan Evers

Bernadette Tolgyesi

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

The cerebellum is involved in almost all cognitive functions related to music perception and music production. This has been shown by functional imaging and by similar techniques. In addition, lesion studies (i.e. examining patients with cerebellar infarction or tumour) also give evidence of this involvement. Different parts of the cerebellum have been identified for different aspects of these processing tasks and their individual connections to the cerebral cortex as well as to the basal ganglia. It has been shown for example that cerebellar disorders impair music perception in particular in melody comparison and metrum tasks. First research approaches are trying to use the current knowledge on the role of the cerebellum in music perception for therapeutic processes in degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

Citing Articles

The Cerebellum in Musicology: a Narrative Review.

Evers S Cerebellum. 2023; 23(3):1165-1175.

PMID: 37594626 PMC: 11102367. DOI: 10.1007/s12311-023-01594-6.

Auditory Cueing of Pre-Learned Skills and Role of Subcortical Information Processing to Maximize Rehabilitative Outcomes Bridging Science and Music-Based Interventions.

Tomaino C Healthcare (Basel). 2022; 10(11).

PMID: 36360548 PMC: 9690190. DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10112207.

References

Adamaszek M, Kirkby K, DAgata F, Olbrich S, Langner S, Steele C . Neural correlates of impaired emotional face recognition in cerebellar lesions. Brain Res. 2015; 1613:1-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.01.027. View

Adamaszek M, DAgata F, Ferrucci R, Habas C, Keulen S, Kirkby K . Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Emotion. Cerebellum. 2016; 16(2):552-576. DOI: 10.1007/s12311-016-0815-8. View

Altenmuller E, Siggel S, Mohammadi B, Samii A, Munte T . Play it again, Sam: brain correlates of emotional music recognition. Front Psychol. 2014; 5:114. PMC: 3927073. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00114. View

Anand B, Malhotra C, Singh B, Dua S . Cerebellar projections to limbic system. J Neurophysiol. 1959; 22(4):451-7. DOI: 10.1152/jn.1959.22.4.451. View

Argyropoulos G, van Dun K, Adamaszek M, Leggio M, Manto M, Masciullo M . The Cerebellar Cognitive Affective/Schmahmann Syndrome: a Task Force Paper. Cerebellum. 2019; 19(1):102-125. PMC: 6978293. DOI: 10.1007/s12311-019-01068-8. View

Baer L, Park M, Bailey J, Chakravarty M, Li K, Penhune V . Regional cerebellar volumes are related to early musical training and finger tapping performance. Neuroimage. 2015; 109:130-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.076. View

Baumgartner T, Lutz K, Schmidt C, Jancke L . The emotional power of music: how music enhances the feeling of affective pictures. Brain Res. 2006; 1075(1):151-64. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.12.065. View

Bermpohl F, Pascual-Leone A, Amedi A, Merabet L, Fregni F, Gaab N . Dissociable networks for the expectancy and perception of emotional stimuli in the human brain. Neuroimage. 2005; 30(2):588-600. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.09.040. View

Bruchhage M, Amad A, Draper S, Seidman J, Lacerda L, Laguna P . Drum training induces long-term plasticity in the cerebellum and connected cortical thickness. Sci Rep. 2020; 10(1):10116. PMC: 7308330. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65877-2. View

10.

Callan D, Kawato M, Parsons L, Turner R . Speech and song: the role of the cerebellum. Cerebellum. 2007; 6(4):321-7. DOI: 10.1080/14734220601187733. View

11.

Chatterjee D, Hegde S, Thaut M . Neural plasticity: The substratum of music-based interventions in neurorehabilitation. NeuroRehabilitation. 2021; 48(2):155-166. PMC: 7613141. DOI: 10.3233/NRE-208011. View

12.

Dalla Bella S, Peretz I, Rousseau L, Gosselin N . A developmental study of the affective value of tempo and mode in music. Cognition. 2001; 80(3):B1-10. DOI: 10.1016/s0010-0277(00)00136-0. View

13.

de Manzano O, Ullen F . Same Genes, Different Brains: Neuroanatomical Differences Between Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Musical Training. Cereb Cortex. 2017; 28(1):387-394. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhx299. View

14.

Demorest S, Morrison S, Stambaugh L, Beken M, Richards T, Johnson C . An fMRI investigation of the cultural specificity of music memory. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2009; 5(2-3):282-91. PMC: 2894677. DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsp048. View

15.

Devlin K, Alshaikh J, Pantelyat A . Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions for Movement Disorders. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2019; 19(11):83. DOI: 10.1007/s11910-019-1005-0. View

16.

Gaab N, Gaser C, Zaehle T, Jancke L, Schlaug G . Functional anatomy of pitch memory--an fMRI study with sparse temporal sampling. Neuroimage. 2003; 19(4):1417-26. DOI: 10.1016/s1053-8119(03)00224-6. View

17.

Garrido S, Dunne L, Chang E, Perz J, Stevens C, Haertsch M . The Use of Music Playlists for People with Dementia: A Critical Synthesis. J Alzheimers Dis. 2017; 60(3):1129-1142. PMC: 5682575. DOI: 10.3233/JAD-170612. View

18.

Gonzalez A, Perez P, Santapau M, Gonzalez J, Modrono C . A neuroimaging comparative study of changes in a cellist's brain when playing contemporary and Baroque styles. Brain Cogn. 2020; 145:105623. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105623. View

19.

Griffiths T . Musical hallucinosis in acquired deafness. Phenomenology and brain substrate. Brain. 2000; 123 ( Pt 10):2065-76. DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.10.2065. View

20.

Habas C, Kamdar N, Nguyen D, Prater K, Beckmann C, Menon V . Distinct cerebellar contributions to intrinsic connectivity networks. J Neurosci. 2009; 29(26):8586-94. PMC: 2742620. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1868-09.2009. View