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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music

2003; Oxford University Press; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/acprof

Isabelle Peretz, Robert J. Zatorre,

Reading and Literacy Development

Music offers a unique opportunity to understand better the organization of the human brain. Like language, music exists in all human societies. Like language, music is a complex, rule-governed activity that seems specific to humans, and associated with a specific brain architecture. Yet unlike most other high-level functions of the human brain — and unlike language — music is a skill at which only a minority of people become proficient. The study of music as a major brain function has for some time been relatively neglected. Just recently, however, we have witnessed an explosion in research ac ... More