Sting's Brain Scanned, Analyzed to Study Mental Music Organization — rollingstone.com

After visiting Montreal for a show, Sting met with cognitive psychologist Daniel Levitin, who, alongside colleague Scott Grafton, analyzed fMRI images to study how the musician's brain analyzes and organizes music. "The state-of-the-art techniques really allowed us to make maps of how Sting's brain organizes music," Levitin, the author of This Is Your Brain on Music, said in a statement. "That's important because at the heart of great musicianship is the ability to manipulate in one's mind rich representation of the desired soundscape."

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