Mental Effort When Playing, Listening, and Imagining Music in One Pianist’s Eyes and Brain

We investigated “musical effort” with an internationally renowned, classical, pianist while playing, listening, and imagining music. We used pupillometry as an objective measure of mental effort and fMRI as an exploratory method of effort with the same musical pieces. We also compared a group of non...

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Main Authors: Tor Endestad, Rolf Inge Godøy, Markus Handal Sneve, Thomas Hagen, Agata Bochynska, Bruno Laeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2020.576888/full