Increased functional connectivity in the right dorsal auditory stream after a full year of piano training in healthy older adults
Abstract Learning to play an instrument at an advanced age may help to counteract or slow down age-related cognitive decline. However, studies investigating the neural underpinnings of these effects are still scarce. One way to investigate the effects of brain plasticity is using resting-state funct...
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| author | Kristin Jünemann Anna Engels Damien Marie Florian Worschech Daniel S. Scholz Frédéric Grouiller Matthias Kliegel Dimitri Van De Ville Eckart Altenmüller Tillmann H. C. Krüger Clara E. James Christopher Sinke |
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| description | Abstract Learning to play an instrument at an advanced age may help to counteract or slow down age-related cognitive decline. However, studies investigating the neural underpinnings of these effects are still scarce. One way to investigate the effects of brain plasticity is using resting-state functional connectivity (FC). The current study compared the effects of learning to play the piano (PP) against participating in music listening/musical culture (MC) lessons on FC in 109 healthy older adults. Participants underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging at three time points: at baseline, and after 6 and 12 months of interventions. Analyses revealed piano training-specific FC changes after 12 months of training. These include FC increase between right Heschl’s gyrus (HG), and other right dorsal auditory stream regions. In addition, PP showed an increased anticorrelation between right HG and dorsal posterior cingulate cortex and FC increase between the right motor hand area and a bilateral network of predominantly motor-related brain regions, which positively correlated with fine motor dexterity improvements. We suggest to interpret those results as increased network efficiency for auditory-motor integration. The fact that functional neuroplasticity can be induced by piano training in healthy older adults opens new pathways to countervail age related decline. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-796ec20b89614ffcb903a590f8c021642023-11-20T09:08:42ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222023-11-0113111510.1038/s41598-023-46513-1Increased functional connectivity in the right dorsal auditory stream after a full year of piano training in healthy older adultsKristin Jünemann0Anna Engels1Damien Marie2Florian Worschech3Daniel S. Scholz4Frédéric Grouiller5Matthias Kliegel6Dimitri Van De Ville7Eckart Altenmüller8Tillmann H. C. Krüger9Clara E. James10Christopher Sinke11Division of Clinical Psychology & Sexual Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical SchoolDivision of Clinical Psychology & Sexual Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical SchoolGeneva Musical Minds Lab, Geneva School of Health Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO)Center for Systems NeuroscienceInstitute of Medical Psychology, University of LübeckCIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging, MRI UNIGE, University of GenevaFaculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of GenevaNeuro-X Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)Center for Systems NeuroscienceDivision of Clinical Psychology & Sexual Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical SchoolGeneva Musical Minds Lab, Geneva School of Health Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO)Division of Clinical Psychology & Sexual Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical SchoolAbstract Learning to play an instrument at an advanced age may help to counteract or slow down age-related cognitive decline. However, studies investigating the neural underpinnings of these effects are still scarce. One way to investigate the effects of brain plasticity is using resting-state functional connectivity (FC). The current study compared the effects of learning to play the piano (PP) against participating in music listening/musical culture (MC) lessons on FC in 109 healthy older adults. Participants underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging at three time points: at baseline, and after 6 and 12 months of interventions. Analyses revealed piano training-specific FC changes after 12 months of training. These include FC increase between right Heschl’s gyrus (HG), and other right dorsal auditory stream regions. In addition, PP showed an increased anticorrelation between right HG and dorsal posterior cingulate cortex and FC increase between the right motor hand area and a bilateral network of predominantly motor-related brain regions, which positively correlated with fine motor dexterity improvements. We suggest to interpret those results as increased network efficiency for auditory-motor integration. The fact that functional neuroplasticity can be induced by piano training in healthy older adults opens new pathways to countervail age related decline.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46513-1 |
| spellingShingle | Kristin Jünemann Anna Engels Damien Marie Florian Worschech Daniel S. Scholz Frédéric Grouiller Matthias Kliegel Dimitri Van De Ville Eckart Altenmüller Tillmann H. C. Krüger Clara E. James Christopher Sinke Increased functional connectivity in the right dorsal auditory stream after a full year of piano training in healthy older adults Scientific Reports |
| title | Increased functional connectivity in the right dorsal auditory stream after a full year of piano training in healthy older adults |
| title_full | Increased functional connectivity in the right dorsal auditory stream after a full year of piano training in healthy older adults |
| title_fullStr | Increased functional connectivity in the right dorsal auditory stream after a full year of piano training in healthy older adults |
| title_full_unstemmed | Increased functional connectivity in the right dorsal auditory stream after a full year of piano training in healthy older adults |
| title_short | Increased functional connectivity in the right dorsal auditory stream after a full year of piano training in healthy older adults |
| title_sort | increased functional connectivity in the right dorsal auditory stream after a full year of piano training in healthy older adults |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46513-1 |
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