Discrepant changes in structure-function coupling in dancers and musicians

Dance and music are well known to improve sensorimotor skills and cognitive functions. To reveal the underlying mechanism, previous studies focus on the brain plastic structural and functional effects of dance and music training. However, the discrepancy training effects on brain structure-function...

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Published in:Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) Vol. 34; no. 3
Main Authors: Gao, Kexin, He, Hui, Lu, Bao, Xie, Qiushui, Lu, Jing, Yao, Dezhong, Luo, Cheng, Li, Gujing
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 01.03.2024
Subjects:
dance training
music training
structure–function coupling
attention network
ISSN:1460-2199, 1460-2199
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Summary:Dance and music are well known to improve sensorimotor skills and cognitive functions. To reveal the underlying mechanism, previous studies focus on the brain plastic structural and functional effects of dance and music training. However, the discrepancy training effects on brain structure-function relationship are still blurred. Thus, proficient dancers, musicians, and controls were recruited in this study. The graph signal processing framework was employed to quantify the region-level and network-level relationship between brain function and structure. The results showed the increased coupling strength of the right ventromedial putamen in the dance and music groups. Distinctly, enhanced coupling strength of the ventral attention network, increased coupling strength of the right inferior frontal gyrus opercular area, and increased function connectivity of coupling function signal between the right and left middle frontal gyrus were only found in the dance group. Besides, the dance group indicated enhanced coupling function connectivity between the left inferior parietal lobule caudal area and the left superior parietal lobule intraparietal area compared with the music groups. The results might illustrate dance and music training's discrepant effect on the structure-function relationship of the subcortical and cortical attention networks. Furthermore, dance training seemed to have a greater impact on these networks.
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ISSN:1460-2199
1460-2199
DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhae068