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Overlap of Musical and Linguistic Syntax Processing: Intracranial ERP Evidence
Author(s) -
Sammler D.,
Koelsch S.,
Ball T.,
Brandt A.,
Elger C. E.,
Friederici A. D.,
Grigutsch M.,
Huppertz H.J.,
Knösche T. R.,
Wellmer J.,
Widman G.,
SchulzeBonhage A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04792.x
Subject(s) - syntax , superior temporal gyrus , deep linguistic processing , linguistics , supramarginal gyrus , inferior frontal gyrus , temporal cortex , psychology , computer science , functional magnetic resonance imaging , neuroscience , philosophy
The present study investigated the co‐localization of musical and linguistic syntax processing in the human brain. EEGs were recorded from subdural electrodes placed on the left and right perisylvian cortex. The neural generators of the early potentials elicited by syntactic errors in music and language were localized by means of distributed source modeling and compared within subjects. The combined results indicated a partial overlap of the sources within the bilateral superior temporal gyrus, and, to a lesser extent, in the left inferior frontal gyrus, qualifying these areas as shared anatomic substrates of early syntactic error detection in music and language.