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Music and Language Processing Share Behavioral and Cerebral Features

Clara E. James · 2012 · Frontiers in Psychology

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Abstract

A commentary on Musical expertise and statistical learning of musical and linguistic structures by Schön, D., and François, C. (2011). Front. Psychology 2:167. doi: 10.3389/ fpsyg.2011.00167 Both language and music consist of discrete elements organized in embedded hierarchical structures. Schön and François nicely expose in this review that musical expertise facilitates learning of both linguistic and musical structures. At the behavioral level, the musicians did not outperform the nonmusicians. However, ERP analyses showed that acquisition of boundary perception (segmentation) between units

Abstract by Clara E. James, Frontiers in Psychology (2012) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00052