Music and Language Syntax Interact in Broca's Area: An fMRI Study.

Instrumental music and language are both syntactic systems, employing complex, hierarchically-structured sequences built using implicit structural norms. This organization allows listeners to understand the role of individual words or tones in the context of an unfolding sentence or melody. Previous...

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Main Authors: Richard Kunert, Roel M Willems, Daniel Casasanto, Aniruddh D Patel, Peter Hagoort
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141069