Becoming a pianist. An fMRI study of musical literacy acquisition

Lauren Stewart; Rik Henson; Knut Kampe; Vincent Walsh; Robert Turner; Uta Frith

Becoming a pianist. An fMRI study of musical literacy acquisition

Lauren Stewart, Rik Henson, Knut Kampe, Vincent Walsh, Robert Turner, Uta Frith

Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain

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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.

Original language	English
Journal	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Volume	999
Pages (from-to)	204-8
Number of pages	5
ISSN	0077-8923
Publication status	Published - Nov 2003

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