Klarinet Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 2001/12

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] How Musicians Think
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 04:16:05 -0500

...but I'm only an amateur, and I can do that too - up to a point.
Is this because I've been a choral singer?
Roger S.

In message <3C0D952C.7FDF19F0@-----.org writes:
> 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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