Anne Adams (1940–2007), a patient with progressive nonfluent aphasia, developed a newfound ability to produce transmodal creative images. Musical notes (top, background) represent AA's favourite notes from bars 321–340 of Maurice Ravel's “Bolero”. Corresponding figures from AA's painting, “Unravelling Bolero” illustrate her transmodal scheme (bottom). AA's creativity was associated with structural and functional enhancements in right posterior neocortex (red-orange color scale, top, foreground). From William W. Seeley et al. Unravelling Boléro: progressive aphasia, transmodal creativity, and the right posterior neocortex pp. 39-49.
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