Evidence for shared cognitive processing of pitch in music and language.

Language and music epitomize the complex representational and computational capacities of the human mind. Strikingly similar in their structural and expressive features, a longstanding question is whether the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms underlying these abilities are shared or distinct--eith...

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Main Authors: Tyler K Perrachione, Evelina G Fedorenko, Louis Vinke, Edward Gibson, Laura C Dilley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3744486?pdf=render