Brain changes after learning to read and play music

Stewart, Lauren; Henson, Rik; Kampe, Knut; Walsh, Vincent; Turner, Robert and Frith, Uta. 2003. Brain changes after learning to read and play music. NeuroImage, 20, pp. 71-83. ISSN 1053-8119 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

Musically naive participants were scanned before and after a period of 15 weeks during which they were taught to read music and play the keyboard. When participants played melodies from musical notation after training, activation was seen in a cluster of voxels within the bilateral superior parietal cortex. A subset of these voxels were activated in a second experiment in which musical notation was present, but irrelevant for task performance. These activations suggest that music reading involves the automatic sensorimotor translation of a spatial code (written music) into a series of motor responses (keypresses).

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Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00248-9

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This version is post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) but does not use the publisher's formatting or pagination.

Keywords:

Neuroimaging; music reading

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Psychology

Dates:

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2003Published

Item ID:

51

Date Deposited:

11 Aug 2008 12:37

Last Modified:

21 Mar 2021 05:35

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

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https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/51

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