Music and the brain. Koelsch, S. In Foundations in music psychology: Theory and research, pages 407–458. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, US, 2019.
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The term music refers to structured sounds that are produced by humans as a means of social interaction, expression, diversion, or evocation of emotion. Making music in a group is a tremendously demanding task for the human brain, and it elicits a large array of cognitive (and affective) processes, including perception, multimodal integration, attention, social cognition, memory, and communicative functions, including syntactic processing and processing of meaning information, action, and emotion. This richness makes music an ideal tool to investigate the workings of the human brain. This chapter reviews neuroscientific research findings about some of these processes. Tonal languages rely on a meticulous decoding of pitch information, and both tonal and nontonal languages require an accurate analysis of speech prosody to decode structure and meaning of speech. The assumption of an intimate connection between music and speech is corroborated by the reviewed findings of overlapping and shared neural resources for music and language processing in both adults and children. These findings suggest that the human brain, particularly at an early age, does not treat language and music as separate domains, but rather treats language as a special case of music, and music as a special case of sound. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
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	address = {Cambridge, MA, US},
	title = {Music and the brain},
	isbn = {978-0-262-03927-7},
	abstract = {The term music refers to structured sounds that are produced by humans as a means of social interaction, expression, diversion, or evocation of emotion. Making music in a group is a tremendously demanding task for the human brain, and it elicits a large array of cognitive (and affective) processes, including perception, multimodal integration, attention, social cognition, memory, and communicative functions, including syntactic processing and processing of meaning information, action, and emotion. This richness makes music an ideal tool to investigate the workings of the human brain. This chapter reviews neuroscientific research findings about some of these processes. Tonal languages rely on a meticulous decoding of pitch information, and both tonal and nontonal languages require an accurate analysis of speech prosody to decode structure and meaning of speech. The assumption of an intimate connection between music and speech is corroborated by the reviewed findings of overlapping and shared neural resources for music and language processing in both adults and children. These findings suggest that the human brain, particularly at an early age, does not treat language and music as separate domains, but rather treats language as a special case of music, and music as a special case of sound. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)},
	booktitle = {Foundations in music psychology: {Theory} and research},
	publisher = {The MIT Press},
	author = {Koelsch, Stefan},
	year = {2019},
	keywords = {Brain, Cognitive Processes, Language, Music, Music Perception, Neurosciences, Oral Communication, Social Cognition, Social Interaction},
	pages = {407--458},
}

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