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Expert music performance: cognitive, neural, and developmental bases.

Rachel M Brown¹, Robert J Zatorre², Virginia B Penhune¹

¹Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Progress in Brain Research

|March 2, 2015

Summary

Expert musicians display advanced memory, planning, and execution skills during performances. Their cognitive and neural mechanisms, honed through practice and potentially genetics, enable exceptional musical abilities.

Keywords:

auditory–motor integration basal ganglia cerebellum early training feedback monitoring heritability long-term and working memory motor control parietal cortex premotor cortex

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroscience of Music
Expert Performance

Background:

Expert music performance challenges understanding of human memory and motor control.
Studying musicians offers insights into general skilled human behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the cognitive and neural underpinnings of expert music performance.
To investigate how musicians achieve and develop expert-level abilities.
To examine the factors contributing to musical expertise.

Main Methods:

Review of cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in music performance.
Analysis of auditory, motor, parietal, subcortical, and frontal cortex contributions.
Examination of developmental factors including heritability, training, and practice.

Main Results:

Expert performance involves accurate and expressive recall, planning, execution, and monitoring.
Key mechanisms include sound-movement integration, motor control, expectancy, and imagery.
Neural circuits across various brain regions support different aspects of musical expertise.

Conclusions:

Musical expertise is a complex interplay of cognitive functions and neural circuits.
Development of expertise is influenced by both genetic predispositions and extensive training.
Future research can further elucidate the intricacies of expert music performance.