Klarinet Archive - Posting 000067.txt from 2001/12

From: agalper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] How Musicians Think
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 22:31:56 -0500

How musicians think

According to neuroscientists in Germany, the brains of professional
musicians respond to music in ways that suggest they have intuitive
sense of the notes that amateurs lack.
Using Mill machines to scan the brains of eight professional musicians,
research has found that these players could hear the music simply by
thinking of playing it -they showed significant activity in the parts of
the brain that controlled hearing.
Amateur violinists, by contrast, showed more activity in the motor
cortex, the region that controls finger movement, suggesting that they
were more preoccupied with hitting the correct notes.

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