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The Jazz Pianist’s Quiet Mind

When six professional jazz pianists improvised inside a brain scanner, wide areas of the prefrontal cortex linked to self-monitoring went quiet.

Source: The brain improvising jazz
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  1. Limb, C. J., & Braun, A. R. (2008). Neural substrates of spontaneous musical performance: An fMRI study of jazz improvisation. PLoS ONE, 3(2), e1679.

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The Jazz Pianist’s Quiet Mind

When six professional jazz pianists improvised inside a brain scanner, wide areas of the prefrontal cortex linked to self-monitoring went quiet.

Source: The brain improvising jazz · Growing evidence

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