The Cerebellum in Musicology: a Narrative Review

Overview

Journal Cerebellum

Publisher Springer

Specialty Neurology

Date 2023 Aug 18

PMID 37594626

Authors

Stefan Evers

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Abstract

The cerebellum is involved in cognitive procressing including music perception and music production. This narrative review aims to summarize the current knowledge on the activation of the cerebellum by different musical stimuli, on the involvement of the cerebellum in cognitive loops underlying the analysis of music, and on the role of the cerebellum in the motor network underlying music production. A possible role of the cerebellum in therapeutic settings is also briefly discussed. In a second part, the cerebellum as object of musicology (i.e., in classical music, in contemporary music, cerebellar disorders of musicians) is described.

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