Can someone who has access to the paper please post it on scribd.
<a href="http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/reprint/28/16/4238" rel="nofollow">http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/reprint/28/16/4238</a><p>Thanks.
Random anecdotal support: Richard Feynmann was an accomplished drummer, capable of exotic polyrhythms. He didn't seem to think his skill at drumming had much relevance to his skill at science, however:<p><a href="http://chemeng.iisc.ernet.in/alumni/rpf.html" rel="nofollow">http://chemeng.iisc.ernet.in/alumni/rpf.html</a><p>In light of this article, he may well have been wrong. :)
A good follow up project would be to investigate whether or not there is a correlation between meditation, rhythmic accuracy, and changes in mental ability/capacity.
I also wonder if they take into account the "muscle memory" effect in which musicians (and anyone who does complex tasks with their hands regularly) tends to store some information in the nerves and pathways of the hands themselves, rather than the brain.<p>In other words, could a stupid drummer game the system?