Empirical evidence for musical syntax processing? Computer simulations reveal the contribution of auditory short-term memory

During the last decade, it has been argued that 1) music processing involves syntactic representations similar to those observed in language, and 2) that music and language share similar syntactic-like processes and neural resources. This claim is important for understanding the origin of music and...

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Main Authors: Emmanuel eBigand, Charles eDelbé, Bénédicte ePoulin-Charronnat, Marc eLeman, Barbara eTillmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00094/full