“…On the other hand, the heterogeneous range of musical instruments that we used suggests that the expertise effects measured in this study are unlikely to be based on the presence of specific local visual features, but rather indicate a more general and global level of perceptual expertise for musical instruments of various kinds. This suggestion is in line with previous findings that, relative to nonmusicians, musicians generally are faster and more accurate in tests of visual spatial perception and mental imagery (Brochard, Dufour, & Després, 2004;Patston, Hogg, & Tippett, 2007), have faster interhemispheric visual transfer times (Patston, Kirk, Rolfe, Corballis, & Tippett, 2007), and have larger cortical motor representations (Elbert, Pantev, Wienbruch, Rockstroh, & Taub, 1995). Note that these findings were not confined to the representations of musical instruments.…”