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 parietal cortex consistent with the view that music reading involves spatial sensorimotor mapping.
Stewart
Lauren
L
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Alexandra House, London WC1N 3AR, UK. l.stewart@ucl.ac.uk
Henson
Rik
R
Kampe
Knut
K
Walsh
Vincent
V
Turner
Robert
R
Frith
Uta
U
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