FIGURE 3.

Activation pattern of an overt singing and speaking task contrasting occasional singers with professional singers. Professional singers showed additional activations in temporal, parietal, sensorimotor, and inferior frontal regions on both sides of the brain (right more than left), which was not only seen in the highly controlled singing task but also transferred to the speaking control task (for details on the fMRI task and data analysis, see Ozdemir et al., 2006).