In this chapter, we explore what happens in the brain of an expert musician during
performance. Understanding expert music performance is interesting to cognitive …

Piano performance involves a large repertoire of highly skilled movements. The acquisition
of these exceptional skills despite innate neural and biomechanical constraints requires a …

The roles of the motor cortex in the acquisition and performance of skilled finger movements
have been extensively investigated over decades. Yet it is still not known whether these …

Dexterous use of the hand represents a sophisticated sensorimotor function. In behaviors
such as playing the piano, it can involve strong temporal and spatial constraints. The …

Music-based interventions have emerged as a promising tool in stroke motor rehabilitation
as they integrate most of the principles of motor training and multimodal stimulation. This …

Musical performance requires motor skills to coordinate the movements of multiple joints in
the hand and arm over a wide range of tempi. However, it is unclear whether the …

Interactions between the body and the environment are dynamically modulated by
upcoming sensory information and motor execution. To adapt to this behavioral state-shift …

Musicians anticipate the effects of their actions during performance. Online musical imagery,
or the consciously accessible anticipation of desired effects, may enable expressive …

Musicians show a remarkable ability to interconnect motor patterns and sensory processing
in the somatosensory and auditory domains. Many of these processes are specific for the …

Humans exhibit a strong tendency to synchronize movements with each other, with visual
perspective potentially influencing interpersonal synchronization. By manipulating the visual …