ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the neural processes underlying spatial thought and spatial action. It focuses on insights from other disciplines, in particular from music psychology. It might also be interesting to learn which functional roles the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) plays to better understand the concept of embodiment or the theoretical background of dance performance and of playing a musical instrument. The chapter explains the PPC's anatomy and function in detail. It also focuses on an active type of spatial imagery called mental rotation and its underlying neural substrate. Interestingly, the primary auditory cortex (PAC) is the region where the splitting of sound information starts, but it is also that part of the brain. The chapter provides some remarks on the spatial character of tones and intervals, that is, on single sonic events as extensively investigated by Carl Stumpf.
