[Functional MRI of human brain in musicians and non-musicians].
To explore the differences in brain activation between musicians and non-musicians by use of functional MRI.



Twelve right-handed musicians and twelve right-handed non-musicians were recruited in the study. During a listening task, they were scanned on the Sigma 1.5T scanner (GE) while they were passively listening to several segments of music of "the Butterfly Love" and the white noise with same physical energy.



Both musicians and non-musicians demonstrated bilateral transverse gyrus weak activated while listening to the white noise. But when listening to music, they showed bilateral temporal areas strongly activated including superior temporal gyrus, transverse gyrus and some middle temporal areas. Moreover, musicians showed relative left dominance (10/12), whereas non-musicians demonstrated right dominance(11/12). Furthermore,besides bilateral temporal areas, more and stronger activated areas were found in musicians such as cuneus, precuneus,medial frontal and left middle occipital gyrus.



There are different neuro-patterns between musicians and non-musicians.
Cui
Heng-wu
HW
Department of Radiology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310016, China. cuihengwu314@sina.com
Zhang
Shi-zheng
SZ
Di
Hai-bo
HB
Liu
Hai
H
Zhu
Yi-hong
YH
Zhang
Qiao-wei
QW
Weng
Xu-chu
XC
Chen
Yi-zhang
YZ
D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*