Music and words in the visual cortex: The impact of musical expertise
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.05.016
Abstract: How does the human visual system accommodate expertise for two simultaneously acquired symbolic systems? We used fMRI to compare activations induced in the visual cortex by musical notation, written words and other classes of objects,… read more here.
Keywords: expertise; music words; musical expertise; words visual ... See more keywords
Reading music and words: The anatomical connectivity of musicians’ visual cortex
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116666
Abstract: Musical score reading and word reading have much in common, from their historical origins to their cognitive foundations and neural correlates. In the ventral occipitotemporal cortex (VOT), the specialization of the so-called Visual Word Form… read more here.
Keywords: cortex; word; connectivity; music words ... See more keywords