Musicians form an ideal subject pool in which one can investigate possible cerebral
adaptations to unique requirements of skilled performance as well as cerebral correlates of …

Playing a musical instrument demands extensive procedural and motor learning that results
in plastic reorganization of the human brain. These plastic changes seem to include the …

Musicians learn complex motor and auditory skills at an early age and practice these
specialized skills extensively from childhood through their entire careers. Using a voxel‐by …

Neural imaging studies have shown that the brains of skilled musicians respond differently
to musical stimuli than do the brains of non-musicians, particularly for musicians who …

The lifelong ability to adapt to environmental needs is based on the capacity of the central
nervous system for plastic alterations. In a series of neurophysiological experiments, we …

Auditory stimuli are encoded by frequency‐tuned neurons in the auditory cortex. There are a
number of tonotopic maps, indicating that there are multiple representations, as in a mosaic …

The understanding of the relationships between music and the brain is a legitimate goal of
neuroscientific research. In spite of an already large body of experimental investigation …

Neurological foundations of music perception, performance, and learning rely on
individually variable, widely distributed neuronal networks in both hemispheres. Music …

Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory and motor experience that is
typically initiated at an early age and requires the acquisition and practice of a wide range of …

Developmental changes in the human brain coincide with and underlie changes in a wide
range of motor and cognitive abilities. Neuroimaging studies have shown that musical …