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Music, Language, and the Brain
1. Introduction 2. Sound Elements: Pitch and Timbre 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Musical Sound Systems 2.3 Linguistic Sound Systems 2.4 Sound Category Learning as a Key Link 2.5 Conclusion Appendixes 3.…
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Language, music, syntax and the brain
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This review focuses on syntax, using recent neuroimaging data and cognitive theory to propose a specific point of convergence between syntactic processing in language and music, which leads to testable predictions, including the prediction that that syntactic comprehension problems in Broca's aphasia are not selective to language but influence music perception as well.
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Processing Syntactic Relations in Language and Music: An Event-Related Potential Study
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The results argue against the language-specificity of the P600 and suggest that language and music can be studied in parallel to address questions of neural specificity in cognitive processing.
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Why would Musical Training Benefit the Neural Encoding of Speech? The OPERA Hypothesis
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The OPERA hypothesis is used to account for the observed superior subcortical encoding of speech in musically trained individuals, and to suggest mechanisms by which musical training might improve linguistic reading abilities.
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Can nonlinguistic musical training change the way the brain processes speech? The expanded OPERA hypothesis
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An empirical comparison of rhythm in language and music
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Musical Rhythm, Linguistic Rhythm, and Human Evolution
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This comment extends the conceptual approach to musical rhythm and suggests how issues of innateness, domain specificity, and human specificity might be addressed.
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Intonation processing in congenital amusia: discrimination, identification and imitation.
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It is suggested that amusia impacts upon one's language abilities in subtle ways, and support previous evidence that pitch processing in language and music involves shared mechanisms.
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Making psycholinguistics musical: Self-paced reading time evidence for shared processing of linguistic and musical syntax
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The results of the present experiments support a prediction of the shared syntactic integration resource hypothesis, which suggests that music and language draw on a common pool of limited processing resources for integrating incoming elements into syntactic structures.
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Structural integration in language and music: Evidence for a shared system
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Evidence is provided for an overlap in structural processing between language and music in terms of subject- and object-extracted relative clause conditions in the out-of-key condition than in the in-key and auditory-anomaly conditions.
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