Music, Language, and the Brain

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 Platos 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 book 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.

ISBN 0195123751   Pages 526 ISBN13 9780195123753 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc   Weight (grammes) 834 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc   Published in New York Format Hardback   Height (mm) 242 Publication date 06 Dec 2007   Width (mm) 163 Library of Congress 2007014189   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY 781.11   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Introduction		3
2		Sound elements: pitch and timbre		7
3		Rhythm		95
4		Melody		181
5		Syntax		239
6		Meaning		299
7		Evolution		353
		Afterword		417
		References		419
		List of sound examples		487
		List of credits		491
		Author index		497
		Subject index		507

...an intellectual tour-de-force...[the book] requires focused engagement, but the rewards are rich...this definitive analysis of music cognition and its relationship to language [is] a work of exceptional scholarship and clarity. Nature

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