Music, Language, and the Brain

Description

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. This volume argues that music and language share deep and critical connections, and that comparative research provides a powerful way to study the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying these uniquely human abilities.

• Author: Aniruddh D. Patel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Published: 2010-06-01
• Pages: 526
• ISBN-13: 9780199890170