title: Becoming a pianist. An fMRI study of musical literacy acquisition.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Alexandra House, London WC1N 3AR, UK. l.stewart@ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: Rik
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Henson
authors.forename: Knut
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kampe
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.forename: Uta
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Frith
mesh_terms: D001931:Brain Mapping; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009146:Music; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D011932:Reading