Abstract Language and music are two human-unique capacities whose relationship remains
debated. Some have argued for overlap in processing mechanisms, especially for structure�…

The neuroanatomical correlates of musical structure were investigated using functional
magnetic neuroimaging (fMRI) and a unique stimulus manipulation involving scrambled�…

Two new empirical studies address the relationship between music and language. The first
focuses on melody and uses research in phonetics to investigate the long‐held notion that�…

Language and music exhibit similar acoustic and structural properties, and both appear to
be uniquely human. Several recent studies suggest that speech and music perception�…

Instrumental music and language are both syntactic systems, employing complex,
hierarchically-structured sequences built using implicit structural norms. This organization�…

The comparative study of music and language is drawing an increasing amount of research
interest. Like language, music is a human universal involving perceptually discrete elements�…

Two fMRI experiments were conducted using song to investigate the domain specificity of
linguistic and musical processing. In Experiment 1, participants listened to pairs of spoken�…

Evidence from brain-damaged patients suggests that regions in the temporal lobes, distinct
from those engaged in lower-level auditory analysis, process the pitch and rhythmic�…

Does the processing of structural relations in music have anything in common with the
syntactic processing of language? Important differences in the form, purpose, and use of�…

Although the notion of the language specificity of neural correlates has been widely
accepted in the past (eg, lefthemispheric dominance including Broca's and Wernike's area�…