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How does the brain process music?

Jason Warren
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.8-1-32
Clin Med February 2008
Jason Warren
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London
Roles: Honorary Consultant Neurologist
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Abstract

The organisation of the musical brain is a major focus of interest in contemporary neuroscience. This reflects the increasing sophistication of tools (especially imaging techniques) to examine brain anatomy and function in health and disease, and the recognition that music provides unique insights into a number of aspects of nonverbal brain function. The emerging picture is complex but coherent, and moves beyond older ideas of music as the province of a single brain area or hemisphere to the concept of music as a ‘whole-brain’ phenomenon. Music engages a distributed set of cortical modules that process different perceptual, cognitive and emotional components with varying selectivity. ‘Why’ rather than ‘how’ the brain processes music is a key challenge for the future.

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Clinical Medicine Feb 2008, 8 (1) 32-36; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.8-1-32

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