The scientists play all the notes Bird missed......(V-note joke)

[Mark Kohut]

    musicians were able to spontaneously invent new melodies by turning off 
their prefrontal cortex-- child mind.http://j.mp/aMpimj 
 
"And it's not just complex learning that benefits from a quiet PFC. A recent 
brain scanning experiment by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that 
jazz musicians in the midst of improvisation - they were playing a specially 
designed keyboard in a brain scanner - showed dramatically reduced activity in a 

part of the prefrontal cortex. It was only by "deactivating" this brain area - 
inhibiting their inhibitions, so to speak - that the musicians were able to 
spontaneously invent new melodies. The scientists compare this unwound state of 
mind with that of dreaming during REM sleep, meditation, and other creative 
pursuits, such as the composition of poetry. But it also resembles the thought 
process of a young child, albeit one with musical talent. Baudelaire was right: 
"Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will."