... how neurological damage may affect piano-playing, and how this type of brain damage may (or may not) lead to a deterioration in brain functioning in certain areas. When a pianist sits in front of a piano, looks as a page of musical notes, and strikes a chord as a result, a very organized sequence of events is taking place within the body, and specifically within the brain and neural pathways. To expound on the above, the following processes are happening. Looking at the musical contour of a note, for example, a crochet (?), denoting a "C" on the keyboard, involves bottom-up processing (Santrock, 2003, p.177). This is processing that starts with sensory receptors recording information from the environment, triggering action potentials ("changes in electrical potential which occur when an impulse is propagated by a neuron" (Reber & Reber, 2001, p.8)), and thereby relaying information to the brain. In this instance, the ...

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