Creativity is notoriously difficult to study as it unfolds, but musical improvisation offers a rare chance to watch spontaneous idea-generation in action. In a new imaging study, researchers examined how 16 skilled jazz pianists brains reorganized while they played a familiar tune from memory, improvised around its melody, or freely improvised over its chord changes.
Creativity is notoriously difficult to study as it unfolds, but musical improvisation offers a rare chance to watch spontaneous idea-generation in action. In a new imaging study, researchers examined how 16 skilled jazz pianists brains reorganized while they played a familiar tune from memory, improvised around its melody, or freely improvised over its chord changes.
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