Changes in Brain Responses to Music and Non-music Sounds Following Creativity Training Within the “Different Hearing” Program

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.703620/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.703620/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.703620" target="_blank" >10.3389/fnins.2021.703620</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Changes in Brain Responses to Music and Non-music Sounds Following Creativity Training Within the “Different Hearing” Program

Original language description

The “Different Hearing” program (DHP) is an educational activity aimed at stimulating musical creativity of children and adults by group composing in the classroom, alternative to the mainstream model of music education in Czechia. Composing in the classroom in the DHP context does not use traditional musical instruments or notation, instead, the participants use their bodies, sounds originating from common objects as well as environmental sounds as the “elements” for music composition by the participants’ team, with the teacher initiating and then participating and coordinating the creative process, which ends with writing down a graphical score and then performing the composition in front of an audience. The DHP methodology works with a wide definition of musical composition. We hypothesized that the DHP short-term (2 days) intense workshop would induce changes in subjective appreciation of different classes of music and sound (including typical samples of music composed in the DHP course), as well as plastic changes of the brain systems engaged in creative thinking and music perception, in their response to diverse auditory stimuli. In our study, 22 healthy university students participated in the workshop over 2 days and underwent fMRI examinations before and after the workshop, meanwhile 24 students were also scanned twice as a control group. During fMRI, each subject was listening to musical and non-musical sound samples, indicating their esthetic impression with a button press after each sample. As a result, participants’ favorable feelings toward non-musical sound samples were significantly increased only in the active group. fMRI data analyzed using ANOVA with post hoc ROI analysis showed significant group-by-time interaction (opposing trends in the two groups) in the bilateral posterior cingulate cortex/precuneus, which are functional hubs of the default mode network (DMN) and in parts of the executive, motor, and auditory networks. The findings suggest that DHP training modified the behavioral and brain response to diverse sound samples, differentially changing the engagement of functional networks known to be related to creative thinking, namely, increasing DMN activation and decreasing activation of the executive network.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30210 - Clinical neurology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Neuroscience

ISSN

1662-4548

e-ISSN

1662-453X

Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

October

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

703620

UT code for WoS article

000721533400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85117130119