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Article: How does the brain process music?
- Article from:
- Clinical Medicine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Royal College of Physicians Feb 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ABSTRACT - The organisation of the musical brain is a major focus of interest in contemporary neuroscience. This reflects the increasing sophistication of tools (especially imaging techniques) to examine brain anatomy and function in health and disease, and the recognition that music provides unique insights into a number of aspects of nonverbal brain function. The emerging picture is complex but coherent, and moves beyond older ideas of music as the province of a single brain area or hemisphere to the concept of music as a 'whole-brain' phenomenon. Music engages a distributed set of cortical modules that process different perceptual, cognitive and emotional components with varying ...