Boris Kleber

TL;DR: It is concluded that imagined and overt singing involves partly different brain systems in professional singers with more prefrontal and limbic activation and a larger network of higher order associative functions during imagery.

TL;DR: First evidence that the training of vocal skills is accompanied by increased functional activation of bilateral primary somatosensory cortex representing articulators and larynx is provided, providing the first evidence that vocal skills training correlates with increased activity of a cortical network for enhanced kinesthetic motor control and sensorimotor guidance.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the right anterior insular cortex and sensory-motor areas play a role in experience-dependent modulation of feedback integration for vocal motor control during singing.

TL;DR: Structural data confirm and extend previous functional reports suggesting a pivotal role of somatosensation in vocal motor control with increased experience in singing and indicate a sensitive period for developing additional vocal skills after speech motor coordination has matured.

TL;DR: It is found that pitch‐matching accuracy was unaffected by masking in trained singers yet declined in nonsingers, which indicates that singers relied more on somatosensory feedback, whereas nonsingers depended more critically on auditory feedback.