Neural substrates of interactive musical improvisation: an FMRI study of 'trading fours' in jazz.

Interactive generative musical performance provides a suitable model for communication because, like natural linguistic discourse, it involves an exchange of ideas that is unpredictable, collaborative, and emergent. Here we show that interactive improvisation between two musicians is characterized b...

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Main Authors: Gabriel F Donnay, Summer K Rankin, Monica Lopez-Gonzalez, Patpong Jiradejvong, Charles J Limb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3929604?pdf=render