Music and language side by side in the brain: a PET study of the generation of melodies and sentences

@article{Brown2006MusicAL,
  title={Music and language side by side in the brain: a PET study of the generation of melodies and sentences},
  author={Steven Brown and Michael J. Martinez and Lawrence M. Parsons},
  journal={European Journal of Neuroscience},
  year={2006},
  volume={23}
}
Parallel generational tasks for music and language were compared using positron emission tomography. Amateur musicians vocally improvised melodic or linguistic phrases in response to unfamiliar, auditorily presented melodies or phrases. Core areas for generating melodic phrases appeared to be in left Brodmann area (BA) 45, right BA 44, bilateral temporal planum polare, lateral BA 6, and pre‐SMA. Core areas for generating sentences seemed to be in bilateral posterior superior and middle temporal… 
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