Comparing the processing of music and language meaning using EEG and FMRI provides evidence for similar and distinct neural representations.

Recent demonstrations that music is capable of conveying semantically meaningful information has raised several questions as to what the underlying mechanisms of establishing meaning in music are, and if the meaning of music is represented in comparable fashion to language meaning. This paper presen...

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Main Authors: Nikolaus Steinbeis, Stefan Koelsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2376093?pdf=render