The Search for a Morphological Substrate in the Brains of Eminent Persons including Musicians: a Historical Review

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter describes the search for a morphological substrate in brains of eminent persons including musicians. The also presents observations composer, who developed Wernicke-type aphasia because presence left-sided parietal meningioma. It was found that while aphasic, he unable to compose, but after removal tumor, both speech and musical creativity rapidly returned. On other hand, case Luria associates, composer continued create successfully during sensory caused by vascular lesion left hemisphere. Experimental investigations support greater participation nondominant hemisphere perception music. Using dichotic listening, it demonstrated that, dominance, right ear superior recognition words, better identifying melodies melody pattern. is reported contrast untrained listeners, musically experienced recognize simple than ear; articulate experience, like language, may be task analyzing dominant