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Becoming a Pianist
Author(s) -
STEWART LAUREN,
HENSON RIK,
KAMPE KNUT,
WALSH VINCENT,
TURNER ROBERT,
FRITH UTA
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1284.030
Subject(s) - melody , functional magnetic resonance imaging , musical notation , voxel , psychology , reading (process) , communication , computer science , neuroscience , musical , art , visual arts , artificial intelligence , linguistics , philosophy
A bstract : 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.