Plate 16 Activations in posterior cerebellum as nonmusicians and musicians discriminate meter, tempo,
pattern, and duration. Shown are group-mean PET images for each task (contrasted with rest) overlaid on MRIs.
Plate 17 Anecdotal evidence reports superior musical abilities in blind individuals.Left: Stevie Wonder. From:
The Rolling Stone. Illustrated History of Rock and Roll. A. DeCurtis, J. Henke, H. George-Warren (eds) New York:
Random House, p. 294.Right: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, though not blind, possibly suffered from strabismic
amblyopta, reducing vision in one or both eyes by an unknown amount. Portrait attributed to Kymli of
Mannheim, Germany, 1783 (held in a private collection).