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There are stimuli than can evoke us a feeling of connection between them. For example, we can easily appreciate differences when a musical piece is played in a continuous (legato) or discontinued way (martellato). This is called articulation, and this feature can be also applied to other sensorial modalities such as paintings or food images. In this framework, we wonder if the brain processing of a musical piece played in a discontinued way (i.e., martellato) could be similar to the brain processing of images with analogous features. We used Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to assess how the brain processes the dimensions of articulation in relation to discontinuity (time or space) and coherence. To avoid any potential bias due to the lack of knowledge of the articulations in music, all the participants were professional musicians. Although more studies are still needed, our results suggest that different areas of auditory and visual cortex are specialized in processing several types of articulations and that brain activity is greater when coherent stimuli were used.
O. de Juan-Ayala and V. Caruana—Contributed equally to this paper.
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This project has received funding by grant RTI2018-098969-B-100 from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades and by grant PROMETEO/2019/119 from the Generalitat Valenciana (Spain).
We also want to thank Jose María García Santos, Head of the Radiology Department. University Hospital Morales Meseguer (Spain) for his support in this project, as well as to Francisco Fuentes, Chef of the Palacete La Seda Restaurant in Murcia.
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de Juan-Ayala, O., Caruana, V., Campos-Bueno, J.J., Ferrández, J.M., Fernández, E. (2022). Pairing of Visual and Auditory Stimuli: A Study in Musicians on the Multisensory Processing of the Dimensions of Articulation and Coherence. In: Ferrández Vicente, J.M., Álvarez-Sánchez, J.R., de la Paz López, F., Adeli, H. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience: Affective Analysis and Health Applications. IWINAC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13258. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06242-1_25
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