@article{3f49cd60b31511debc73000ea68e967b,
title = "To musicians, the message is in the meter pre-attentive neuronal responses to incongruent rhythm are left-lateralized in musicians",
abstract = "Musicians exchange non-verbal cues as messages when they play together. This is particularly true in music with a sketchy outline. Jazz musicians receive and interpret the cues when performance parts from a regular pattern of rhythm, suggesting that they enjoy a highly developed sensitivity to subtle deviations of rhythm. We demonstrate that pre-attentive brain responses recorded with magnetoencephalography to rhythmic incongruence are left-lateralized in expert jazz musicians and right-lateralized in musically inept non-musicians. The left-lateralization of the pre-attentive responses suggests functional adaptation of the brain to a task of communication, which is much like that of language.",
author = "Peter Vuust and Pallesen, {Karen Johanne} and Christopher Bailey and {van Zuijen}, {Titia L} and Albert Gjedde and Andreas Roepstorff and Leif {\O}stergaard",
year = "2005",
doi = "10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.08.039",
language = "English",
volume = "24",
pages = "560--4",
journal = "NeuroImage",
issn = "1053-8119",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "2",
}