How do you remember a song -- and why is it that a
beginning pianist who forgets the middle of a melody needs to start over
again to recall the tune?
Brain scientists at Georgetown University Medical Center now have a
response to these questions. At Neuroscience 2012, the annual meeting of
the Society for Neuroscience, the researchers reveal their solution to
what has long been a fundamental puzzle in neuroscience: What does the
brain have to do to process a new musical sequence, and what must it do
to recall a song, once learned?
The answer, says Brannon Green, a graduate student who works in the
laboratory of senior author, neuroscientist Josef Rauschecker, Ph.D., is
that two different areas of the brain are used -- one to learn a
sequence and another to recall it -- and that higher motor areas
participate in both.
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