Sergent J, Zuck E, Terriah S, MacDonald B
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
Science. 1992 Jul 3;257(5066):106-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1621084.
Music, like other forms of expression, requires specific skills for its production, and the organization and representation of these skills in the human brain are not well understood. With the use of positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, the functional neuroanatomy of musical sight-reading and keyboard performance was studied in ten professional pianists. Reading musical notations and translating these notations into movement patterns on a keyboard resulted in activation of cortical areas distinct from, but adjacent to, those underlying similar verbal operations. These findings help explain why brain damage in musicians may or may not affect both verbal and musical functions depending on the size and location of the damaged area.
音乐与其他表达形式一样，其创作需要特定技能，而这些技能在人脑中的组织和呈现方式尚未得到充分理解。通过使用正电子发射断层扫描和磁共振成像技术，对十位专业钢琴家进行了音乐视奏和键盘演奏的功能性神经解剖学研究。阅读乐谱并将这些乐谱转化为键盘上的动作模式，会激活与类似语言操作所涉及的脑区不同但相邻的皮质区域。这些发现有助于解释为什么音乐家脑部受损时，根据受损区域的大小和位置，可能会或可能不会同时影响语言和音乐功能。
