Overlap of Neural Systems for Processing Language and Music

• Main Author: Cyrille Magne (auth)
• Other Authors: McNeel Gordon Jantzen (auth), Edward W. Large (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; development; Language; neural overlap; neural plasticity; Music; Speech; music processing; musical training; Auditory Perception; Speech Processing
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The interplay between musical training and speech perception continues to intrigue researchers in the areas of language and music alike. Historically, language function has been attributed to brain regions localized predominately in left hemisphere, whereas music has been attributed to right hemisph...