SOUND SCAN MUSIC IN AN MRI

摘要

Playing music combines complex brain work with feats of coordination. Scientists would love to know how musicians pull it off-just what happens to a pianist's brain while recalling Rachmaninoff or to a sax player's tongue while riffing? Of course, you can't just shove an orchestra into an MRI machine. But you can reinvent musical instruments to be compatible with its superconducting mega-magnets. That means nothing too big for the tube, no electronics, and no iron-based bits. Here are some instruments that researchers have tuned for a magnetic performance.