Brief Communications
Nature 434, 158 (10 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/434158a; Published online 9 March 2005
Musical imagery: Sound of silence activates auditory cortex
David J. M. Kraemer1, C. Neil Macrae1,2, Adam E. Green1 & William M. Kelley1
Auditory imagery occurs when one mentally rehearses telephone numbers or has a song 'on the brain' — it is the subjective experience of hearing in the absence of auditory stimulation, and is useful for investigating aspects of human cognition1. Here we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify and characterize the neural substrates that support unprompted auditory imagery and find that auditory and visual imagery seem to obey similar basic neural principles.
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
- School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2UB, UK
Correspondence to: William M. Kelley1 Email: william.kelley@dartmouth.edu
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