Jamal A. Williams

Hierarchical neural integration of musical structure during expert performance

This study investigates how expert pianists integrate tonal structure across multiple timescales during performance using fMRI, finding that scrambling musical structure affects brain networks involved in motor and auditory processing.

Music-evoked reactivation during continuous perception is associated with enhanced subsequent recall of naturalistic events

The paper investigates how music-evoked reactivation in the default mode network during film viewing relates to improved recall of naturalistic events the next day.

High-order areas and auditory cortex both represent the high-level event structure of music

The paper uses fMRI and hidden Markov models to show that brain regions involved in narrative event segmentation also represent high-level event structure in music.