This is a truly phenomenal TED presentation by Dr. Charles Limb.
This talk really excited me. I have often pondered to what extent jazz innovation truly reflects the 'creative spark'. I often find myself closing my eyes when I sing or solo on sax, perhaps to 'shut down' those parts of the cortex that 'interfere' (admittedly, harder to do that on a piano solo, but would have been awesome to test that as well). I understood from an interview with Dr. Limb that he only studied right-handed musicians, which is okay for a start, but would be great to see to what extent their scans differ from the right handed. The reason I say this is that, as a left handed musician, I wonder what it would have been like to have learned to play piano 'backwards' as a child with the lower notes on the right. How would my bass accompaniments be different? How would my solos be different if I were using my dominant hand? The reason I say this is because you can hear the left-handedness of Bill Evans.
He is one dude I would definitely like to jam with (but perhaps not in his machine)
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