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Kim SH, Jeon HE, Park CH. Relationship between Visual Perception and Microstructural Change of the Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus in Patients with Brain Injury in the Right Hemisphere: A Preliminary Diffusion Tensor Tractography Study. Diagnostics (Basel) 2020; 10:diagnostics10090641. [PMID: 32867118 PMCID: PMC7555244 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics10090641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Revised: 08/25/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Right hemisphere brain damage often results in visual-spatial deficits. Because various microstructural changes of the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) after a stroke in the right hemisphere affect visual perception, including neglect, the present study investigates the relationship between both microstructural change and lateralization of SLF and visual perception, using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in patients with lesions in the right hemisphere. Eight patients with strokes (five patients with intracranial hemorrhage, and three patients with infarction; mean age of 52.5 years) and 16 mean-age-matched healthy control subjects were involved in this study. The visual perception of all eight patients was assessed with the motor-free visual perception test (MVPT), and their SLFs were reconstructed using DTI. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the DTI parameters of the patients and the control subjects. Moreover, patients with microstructural damage to the right SLF showed impairment of visual perception. In patients with damage to both the dorsal and ventral pathways of the right SLF, spatial neglect was present. However, although a leftward SLF asymmetry was revealed in our patients, this lateralization did not show a relationship with visual perception. In conclusion, the microstructural changes of the right SLF play an important role in visual perception, and both pathways contribute to spatial neglect, but leftward lateralization of the right SFL activity after a stroke does not contribute to general visual perception.
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Thakur D, Martens MA, Smith DS, Roth E. Williams Syndrome and Music: A Systematic Integrative Review. Front Psychol 2018; 9:2203. [PMID: 30487769 PMCID: PMC6246687 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2018] [Accepted: 10/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background: Researchers and clinicians have often cited a strong relationship between individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) and music. This review systematically identified, analyzed, and synthesized research findings related to WS and music. Methods: Thirty-one articles were identified that examined this relationship and were divided into seven areas. This process covered a diverse array of methodologies, with aims to: (1) report current findings; (2) assess methodological quality; and (3) discuss the potential implications and considerations for the clinical use of music with this population. Results: Results indicate that individuals with WS demonstrate a high degree of variability in skill and engagement in music, presenting with musical skills that are more in line with their cognitive abilities than chronological age (CA). Musical strengths for this population appear to be based more in musicality and expressivity than formal musical skills, which are expressed through a heightened interest in music, a greater propensity toward musical activities, and a heightened emotional responsiveness to music. Individuals with WS seem to conserve the overall structure of musical phrases better than they can discriminate or reproduce them exactly. The affinity for music often found in this population may be rooted in atypical auditory processing, autonomic irregularities, and differential neurobiology. Conclusions: More studies are needed to explore how this affinity for music can be harnessed in clinical and educational interventions.
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- Donovon Thakur
- Department of Music Therapy, School of Music, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
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- Department of Behavioral Health, Child Development Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, United States.,Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States
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- Department of Music Therapy, School of Music, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
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- Brain Research and Interdisciplinary Neurosciences Laboratory, School of Music, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
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Wang J, Zhang C, Wan S, Peng G. Is Congenital Amusia a Disconnection Syndrome? A Study Combining Tract- and Network-Based Analysis. Front Hum Neurosci 2017; 11:473. [PMID: 29033806 PMCID: PMC5626874 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Accepted: 09/11/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Previous studies on congenital amusia mainly focused on the impaired fronto-temporal pathway. It is possible that neural pathways of amusia patients on a larger scale are affected. In this study, we investigated changes in structural connections by applying both tract-based and network-based analysis to DTI data of 12 subjects with congenital amusia and 20 demographic-matched normal controls. TBSS (tract-based spatial statistics) was used to detect microstructural changes. The results showed that amusics had higher diffusivity indices in the corpus callosum, the right inferior/superior longitudinal fasciculus, and the right inferior frontal-occipital fasciculus (IFOF). The axial diffusivity values of the right IFOF were negatively correlated with musical scores in the amusia group. Network-based analysis showed that the efficiency of the brain network was reduced in amusics. The impairments of WM tracts were also found to be correlated with reduced network efficiency in amusics. This suggests that impaired WM tracts may lead to the reduced network efficiency seen in amusics. Our findings suggest that congenital amusia is a disconnection syndrome.
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- Jieqiong Wang
- Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.,Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
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- Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.,Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Lense MD, Dykens EM. Beat Perception and Sociability: Evidence from Williams Syndrome. Front Psychol 2016; 7:886. [PMID: 27378982 PMCID: PMC4913095 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2016] [Accepted: 05/30/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Beat perception in music has been proposed to be a human universal that may have its origins in adaptive processes involving temporal entrainment such as social communication and interaction. We examined beat perception skills in individuals with Williams syndrome (WS), a genetic, neurodevelopmental disorder. Musical interest and hypersociability are two prominent aspects of the WS phenotype although actual musical and social skills are variable. On a group level, beat and meter perception skills were poorer in WS than in age-matched peers though there was significant individual variability. Cognitive ability, sound processing style, and musical training predicted beat and meter perception performance in WS. Moreover, we found significant relationships between beat and meter perception and adaptive communication and socialization skills in WS. Results have implications for understanding the role of predictive timing in both music and social interactions in the general population, and suggest music as a promising avenue for addressing social communication difficulties in WS.
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- Miriam D Lense
- Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, AtlantaGA, USA; Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, NashvilleTN, USA; Program for Music, Mind and Society, Department of Otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, NashvilleTN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN, USA
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Zhao Y, Chen X, Zhong S, Cui Z, Gong G, Dong Q, Nan Y. Abnormal topological organization of the white matter network in Mandarin speakers with congenital amusia. Sci Rep 2016; 6:26505. [PMID: 27211239 PMCID: PMC4876438 DOI: 10.1038/srep26505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2016] [Accepted: 05/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder that mainly affects the processing of musical pitch. Brain imaging evidence indicates that it is associated with abnormal structural and functional connections in the fronto-temporal region. However, a holistic understanding of the anatomical topology underlying amusia is still lacking. Here, we used probabilistic diffusion tensor imaging tractography and graph theory to examine whole brain white matter structural connectivity in 31 Mandarin-speaking amusics and 24 age- and IQ-matched controls. Amusics showed significantly reduced global connectivity, as indicated by the abnormally decreased clustering coefficient (Cp) and increased normalized shortest path length (λ) compared to the controls. Moreover, amusics exhibited enhanced nodal strength in the right inferior parietal lobule relative to controls. The co-existence of the lexical tone deficits was associated with even more deteriorated global network efficiency in amusics, as suggested by the significant correlation between the increments in normalized shortest path length (λ) and the insensitivity in lexical tone perception. Our study is the first to reveal reduced global connectivity efficiency in amusics as well as an increase in the global connectivity cost due to the co-existed lexical tone deficits. Taken together these results provide a holistic perspective on the anatomical substrates underlying congenital amusia.
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- Yanxin Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning &IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning &IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning &IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning &IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning &IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning &IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning &IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Martínez-Castilla P, Rodríguez M, Campos R. Developmental trajectories of pitch-related music skills in children with Williams syndrome. RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES 2016; 51-52:23-39. [PMID: 26773694 DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2016.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2015] [Revised: 11/19/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The study of music cognition in Williams syndrome (WS) has resulted in theoretical debates regarding cognitive modularity and development. However, no research has previously investigated the development of music skills in this population. In this study, we used the cross-sectional developmental trajectories approach to assess the development of pitch-related music skills in children with WS compared with typically developing (TD) peers. Thus, we evaluated the role of change over time on pitch-related music skills and the developmental relationships between music skills and different cognitive areas. In the TD children, the pitch-related music skills improved with chronological age and cognitive development. In the children with WS, developmental relationships were only found between several pitch-related music skills and specific cognitive processes. We also found non-systematic relationships between chronological age and the pitch-related music skills, stabilization in the level reached in music when cognitive development was considered, and uneven associations between cognitive and music skills. In addition, the TD and WS groups differed in their patterns of pitch-related music skill development. These results suggest that the development of pitch-related music skills in children with WS is atypical. Our findings stand in contrast with the views that claim innate modularity for music in WS; rather, they are consistent with neuroconstructivist accounts.
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- Pastora Martínez-Castilla
- Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Basic Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain.
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Lense MD, Dankner N, Pryweller JR, Thornton-Wells TA, Dykens EM. Neural correlates of amusia in williams syndrome. Brain Sci 2014; 4:594-612. [PMID: 25422929 PMCID: PMC4279144 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci4040594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2014] [Revised: 10/29/2014] [Accepted: 11/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Congenital amusia is defined by marked deficits in pitch perception and production. Though historically examined only in otherwise typically developing (TD) populations, amusia has recently been documented in Williams syndrome (WS), a genetic, neurodevelopmental disorder with a unique auditory phenotype including auditory sensitivities and increased emotional responsiveness to music but variable musical skill. The current study used structural T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging to examine neural correlates of amusia in 17 individuals with WS (4 of whom met criteria for amusia). Consistent with findings from TD amusics, amusia in WS was associated with decreased fractional anisotropy (FA) in the right superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF). The relationship between amusia and FA in the inferior component of the SLF was particularly robust, withstanding corrections for cognitive functioning, auditory sensitivities, or musical training. Though the number of individuals with amusia in the study is small, results add to evidence for the role of fronto-temporal disconnectivity in congenital amusia and suggest that novel populations with developmental differences can provide a window into understanding gene-brain-behavior relationships that underlie musical behaviors.
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- Miriam D. Lense
- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA; E-Mails: (N.D.); (T.A.T.-W.); (E.M.D.)
- Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
- Emory University School of Medicine, Marcus Autism Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
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- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA; E-Mails: (N.D.); (T.A.T.-W.); (E.M.D.)
- Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
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- Department of Radiological Sciences, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA; E-Mail:
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- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA; E-Mails: (N.D.); (T.A.T.-W.); (E.M.D.)
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
- Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
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- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA; E-Mails: (N.D.); (T.A.T.-W.); (E.M.D.)
- Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
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