The Neural Bases of Familiar Music Listening in Healthy Adults
Veronica is a PhD student in Medical Science at the University of Toronto. She studies musical memory preservation in people with dementia and will use a combination of behavioural and neuroimaging methods such as magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG).
The Neural Bases of Familiar Music Listening in Healthy Adults
Research suggests that the neural network associated with music listening differs as a function of familiarity with musical excerpts. A previous Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) meta-analysis on familiar music listening in healthy adults was completed and included articles up until 2016 (Freitas et al., 2018). The top three regions with the highest likelihood of activation was reported as the left superior frontal gyrus (Brodmann area 6); the ventral lateral nucleus of the left thalamus; and the supplementary motor area (Brodmann area 6). However, a number of concerns have been highlighted (i.e., insufficient number of studies included to achieve robust results; no minimum cluster size; requires improvements in search strategy). Thus, with improved parameters and an updated literature search, the present ALE meta-analysis aims to re-establish the neural correlates of familiar music listening in a healthy population.