Functional modulations in brain activity for the first and second music

Matsunaga, R., Yokosawa, K., & Abe, J. (2014). Functional modulations in brain activity for the first and second music: A comparison of high- and low-proficiency bimusicals. Neuropsychologia, 54, 1 -10

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393213004442

Authors

Rie Matsunaga – Department of Informatics, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Koichi Yokosawa – Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan

Jun-ichi Abe – Department of Psychology, Hokkaido University, Japan

Abstract

Bilingual studies have shown that brain activities for first (L1) and second (L2) languages are influenced by L2 proficiency. Does proficiency with a second musical system (M2) influence bimusical brains in a manner similar to that of bilingual brains? The parallel results for bimusicals and bilinguals suggest that the functional changes induced by proficiency in a second (linguistic or musical) system are defined by domain-general neural constraints.