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Abstract
Despite the obvious personal relevance of some musical pieces, the cerebral mechanisms associated with listening to personally familiar music and its effects on subsequent brain functioning have not been specifically evaluated yet. We measured cerebral correlates with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while composers listened to three types of musical excerpts varying in personal familiarity and self (familiar own/composition, familiar other/favorite or unfamiliar other/unknown music) followed by sequences of names of individuals also varying in personal familiarity and self (familiar own/own name, familiar other/close friend and unfamiliar other/unknown name). Listening to music with autobiographical contents (familiar own and/or other) recruited a fronto-parietal network including mainly the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the supramarginal/angular gyri and the precuneus. Additionally, while listening to familiar other music (favorite) was associated with the activation of reward and emotion networks (e.g. the striatum), familiar own music (compositions) engaged brain regions underpinning self-reference (e.g. the medial prefrontal cortex) and visuo-motor imagery. The present findings further suggested that familiar music with self-related reference (compositions) leads to an enhanced activation of the autobiographical network during subsequent familiar name processing (as compared to music without self-related reference); among these structures, the precuneus seems to play a central role in personally familiar processing.
Highlights
Probability to observe a cerebral or a behavioral response to the patient’s first name is enhanced when this personally familiar stimulus followed the presentation of the patient’s favorite m usic[11,12]
We hypothesized that the brain networks associated with listening to names would be partly the same as the brain networks activated by the musical context, for example when the composition is presented as the preceding context, the brain networks associated with listening to the own name would be more similar than the brain networks associated with listening to the own music than after a different musical context
(1) We investigated the influence of the preceding musical context on familiar own name (ON) processing: (ONaOM − ONaUM) tested the effect of familiar own musical context, (ONaFM − ONaUM) tested the effect of familiar other musical context and (ONaOM − ONaFM) tested the effect of familiar own as compared to familiar other music
Summary
Probability to observe a cerebral or a behavioral response to the patient’s first name is enhanced when this personally familiar stimulus followed the presentation of the patient’s favorite m usic[11,12]. Composers were selected as participants to allow the study of brain regions associated with the processing of music with personal familiarity and self-reference (i.e. compositions).
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