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Musical and Linguistic Processing in Song Perception
Author(s) -
SCHÖN DANIELE,
GORDON REYNA LEIGH,
BESSON MIREILLE
Publication year - 2005
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 - 10.1196/annals.1360.006
Subject(s) - salient , perception , music psychology , cognition , neuroimaging , musical , psychology , cognitive science , music perception , cognitive psychology , music and emotion , linguistics , computer science , communication , musicology , artificial intelligence , music , music education , neuroscience , art , pedagogy , philosophy , visual arts
A bstract : One approach to comparing the neural bases of language and music is through the use of song, which is a unique and ecological combination of these two cognitive domains. In song, language and music are merged into one acoustic signal with two salient dimensions. By manipulating either the linguistic or musical dimensions (or both) of song and studying their relationships, it is possible to gain important information about the neural networks underlying language and music cognition. We will present a brief review followed by recent behavioral, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging studies concerned with the functional and structural relationships of music and language. These results, together with the previous studies in the field, help understanding whether the different levels of music and language processing are independent or interactive.