brain scans on musicians???

[Mark Wildman]

In article <1702114B07S86.BFANTIE at american.edu> BFANTIE at american.edu writes:

>Jim Gardner (jim at demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: I'm a composer with a layperson's interest in neuroscience. Does anyone
>: out there happen to know if there have ever been, or are to be, brain
>: scans of any kind carried out on musicians while performing, listening to,
>: learning or imagining music?
> 
>The late Justine Sergent of McGill University also published some interesting
>articles on functional brain imaging and musicians.
> 
One of these which may be of particular interest was published last year in 
Trends in Neuroscience. Here's the reference, mail me if you can't get it and 
I'll send a copy.

Sergent, J. Music, the brain and Ravel. 1993. TINS 16(5):168-172.

Mark Wildman
Dept Physiology
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, S Africa.

mark at gecko.biol.wits.ac.za