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Título:	Theta Coherence Asymmetry In The Dorsal Stream Of Musicians Facilitates Word Learning
Autor/a:	Elmer, Stefan; Albrecht, Joëlle; Valizadeh, Seyed Abolfazl; François, Clément; Rodríguez Fornells, Antoni
Abstract:	Word learning constitutes a human faculty which is dependent upon two anatomically distinct processing streams projecting from posterior superior temporal (pST) and inferior parietal (IP) brain regions toward the prefrontal cortex (dorsal stream) and the temporal pole (ventral stream). The ventral stream is involved in mapping sensory and phonological information onto lexical-semantic representations, whereas the dorsal stream contributes to sound-to-motor mapping, articulation, complex sequencing in the verbal domain, and to how verbal information is encoded, stored, and rehearsed from memory. In the present source-based EEG study, we evaluated functional connectivity between the IP lobe and Broca's area while musicians and non-musicians learned pseudowords presented in the form of concatenated auditory streams. Behavioral results demonstrated that musicians outperformed non-musicians, as reflected by a higher sensitivity index (d'). This behavioral superiority was paralleled by increased left-hemispheric theta coherence in the dorsal stream, whereas non-musicians showed stronger functional connectivity in the right hemisphere. Since no between-group differences were observed in a passive listening control condition nor during rest, results point to a task-specific intertwining between musical expertise, functional connectivity, and word learning.
Materia(s):	-Conducta (Psicologia) -Neurociències -Human behavior -Neurosciences
Derechos:	cc by (c) Elmer et al., 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Tipo de documento:	Artículo Artículo - Versión publicada
Editor:	Nature Publishing Group
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