The comparative study of music and language is drawing an increasing amount of research
interest. Like language, music is a human universal involving perceptually discrete elements …

The function of the anterior-most portion of the temporal lobes, the temporal pole, is not well
understood. Anatomists have long considered it part of an extended limbic system based on …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

Research on how the brain processes music is emerging as a rich and stimulating area of
investigation of perception, memory, emotion, and performance. Results emanating from …

The present study used pleasant and unpleasant music to evoke emotion and functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine neural correlates of emotion processing …

Is the human mind/brain composed of a set of highly specialized components, each carrying
out a specific aspect of human cognition, or is it more of a general-purpose device, in which …

To investigate the neural substrates that underlie spontaneous musical performance, we
examined improvisation in professional jazz pianists using functional MRI. By employing two …

We conducted a longitudinal study with 32 nonmusician children over 9 months to determine
1) whether functional differences between musician and nonmusician children reflect …

Music perception involves complex brain functions underlying acoustic analysis, auditory
memory, auditory scene analysis, and processing of musical syntax and semantics …

Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory, and motor experience that usually
commences at an early age and requires the acquisition and maintenance of a range of …