Article Title：The effect of musical training on the neural correlates of math processing: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in humans
Abstract：
The neural correlates of the previously hypothesized link between formal musical training and mathematics performance are investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). FMRI was performed on fifteen normal adults, seven with musical training since early childhood, and eight without, while they mentally added and subtracted fractions. Musical training was associated with increased activation in the left fusiform gyrus and prefrontal cortex, and decreased activation in visual association areas and the left inferior parietal lobule during the mathematical task. We hypothesize that the correlation between musical training and math proficiency may be associated with improved working memory performance and an increased abstract representation of numerical quantities. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
Keywords: adult; cognition; functional magnetic resonance imaging; neural pathways; music; mathematics
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.10.037
Source：NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
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