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      A conceptual review on action-perception coupling in the musicians’ brain: what is it good for?

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          Experience with a sensorimotor task, such as practicing a piano piece, leads to strong coupling of sensory (visual or auditory) and motor cortices. Here we review behavioral and neurophysiological (M/EEG, TMS and fMRI) research exploring this topic using the brain of musicians as a model system. Our review focuses on a recent body of evidence suggesting that this form of coupling might have (at least) two cognitive functions. First, it leads to the generation of equivalent predictions (concerning both when and what event is more likely to occur) during both perception and production of music. Second, it underpins the common coding of perception and action that supports the integration of the motor output of multiple musicians’ in the context of joint musical tasks. Essentially, training-based coupling of perception and action might scaffold the human ability to represent complex (structured) actions and to entrain multiple agents—via reciprocal prediction and adaptation—in the pursuit of shared goals.

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                Journal
                Front Hum Neurosci
                Front Hum Neurosci
                Front. Hum. Neurosci.
                Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1662-5161
                21 August 2014
                2014
                : 8
                : 603
                Affiliations
                [1]Marcs Institute - University of Western Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia
                Author notes

                Edited by: Jessica Phillips-Silver, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA

                Reviewed by: Peter Pfordresher, University at Buffalo State University of New York, USA; Léa Antonia Suzanne Chauvigné, University of Geneva, Switzerland

                *Correspondence: Giacomo Novembre, Marcs Institute - University of Western Sydney, Building 1 - Bullecourt Ave., Milperra - 2751, Sydney, NSW, Australia e-mail: g.novembre@ 123456uws.edu.au

                This article was submitted to the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

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                10.3389/fnhum.2014.00603
                4139714
                25191246
                67100500-71a6-4222-8ff1-15318e8ea4ae
                Copyright © 2014 Novembre and Keller.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 24 May 2014
                : 18 July 2014
                Page count
                Figures: 1, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 112, Pages: 11, Words: 10196
                Categories
                Neuroscience
                Hypothesis and Theory Article

                Neurosciences
                action-perception coupling,music,training,prediction,joint action
                Neurosciences
                action-perception coupling, music, training, prediction, joint action

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