A growing body of evidence has highlighted behavioral connections between musical rhythm and linguistic syntax, suggesting that these abilities may be mediated by common neural resources. Here, we performed a quantitative meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies using activation likelihood estimate (ALE) to localize the shared neural structures engaged in a representative set of musical rhythm (rhythm, beat, and meter) and linguistic syntax (merge movement, and reanalysis) operations. Rhythm engaged a bilateral sensorimotor network throughout the brain consisting of the inferior frontal gyri, supplementary motor area, superior temporal gyri/temporoparietal junction, insula, intraparietal lobule, and putamen. By contrast, syntax mostly recruited the left sensorimotor network including the inferior frontal gyrus, posterior superior temporal gyrus, premotor cortex, and supplementary motor area. Intersections between rhythm and syntax maps yielded overlapping regions in the left inferior frontal gyrus, left supplementary motor area, and bilateral insula-neural substrates involved in temporal hierarchy processing and predictive coding. Together, this is the first neuroimaging meta-analysis providing detailed anatomical overlap of sensorimotor regions recruited for musical rhythm and linguistic syntax.

中文翻译：

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节奏和句法共享的神经资源：ALE荟萃分析。

越来越多的证据突显了音乐节奏和语言语法之间的行为联系，表明这些能力可能是由共同的神经资源介导的。在这里，我们使用激活似然估计（ALE）对神经影像学研究进行了定量的荟萃分析，以定位参与一组有代表性的音乐节奏（节奏，节拍和拍子）和语言语法（合并运动和重新分析）的共享神经结构。 ）操作。节奏参与整个大脑的双侧感觉运动网络，包括下额回，活动区，颞上回/颞顶交界，岛状，顶叶小叶和壳状核。相比之下，语法大多招募了左下感觉神经网络，包括额下回，颞上回，运动前皮层和辅助运动区。节奏和语法图之间的交点产生了左下额回，左辅助运动区和参与时间层次处理和预测编码的双侧岛-神经基底的重叠区域。总之，这是首次神经影像荟萃分析，提供了因音乐节奏和语言语法而招募的感觉运动区域的详细解剖重叠。