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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. Since Plato's time, the
relationship between music and language has attracted interest and
debate from a wide range of thinkers. Recently, scientific research on
this topic has been growing rapidly, as scholars from diverse
disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, music cognition,
and neuroscience are drawn to the music-language interface as one way
to explore the extent to which different mental abilities are processed
by separate brain mechanisms. Accordingly, the relevant data and
theories have been spread across a range of disciplines. This volume
provides the first synthesis, arguing 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.Winner of the 2008 ASCAP Deems Taylor
Award.
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