Becoming a pianist. An fMRI study of musical literacy acquisition

Becoming a pianist. An fMRI study of musical literacy acquisition

Musically naïve subjects were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) before and after they had been taught to read music and play keyboard. When subjects played melodies from musical notation after training, activation was seen in a cluster of voxels within the right superior par...

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Veröffentlicht in:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2003-11, Vol.999 (1), p.204-208
Hauptverfasser: Stewart, Lauren, Henson, Rik, Kampe, Knut, Walsh, Vincent, Turner, Robert, Frith, Uta
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Brain Mapping
Humans
Learning - physiology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Music
Parietal Lobe - physiology
Psychomotor Performance - physiology
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Zusammenfassung:Musically naïve subjects were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) before and after they had been taught to read music and play keyboard. When subjects played melodies from musical notation after training, activation was seen in a cluster of voxels within the right superior parietal cortex consistent with the view that music reading involves spatial sensorimotor mapping.
ISSN:0077-8923
1749-6632
DOI:10.1196/annals.1284.030