title: [Functional MRI of human brain in musicians and non-musicians].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310016, China. cuihengwu314@sina.com
authors.forename: Heng-wu
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Shi-zheng
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hai-bo
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Di
authors.forename: Hai
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yi-hong
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Qiao-wei
authors.initials: QW
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xu-chu
authors.initials: XC
authors.lastname: Weng
authors.forename: Yi-zhang
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*