Music, Language and Modularity Framed in Action

Music, Language and Modularity Framed in Action

————— Isabelle Peretz is affiliated to the Department of Psychology at the University of Montreal. Preparation of this paper was supported by grants from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and from a Canada Research Chair. A prior version of this paper will appear as a chapter in Language and music as cognitive systems, edited...

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Language, Music, and Brain

Introduction: Over the last centuries, scientists have been trying to figure out how the brain is learning the language. By 1980, the study of brain-language relationships was based on the study of human brain damage. But since 1980, neuroscience methods have greatly improved. There is controversy about where music, composition, or the perception of language and music are in the brain, or wheth...

Broca's area in language, action, and music.

The work of Paul Broca has been of pivotal importance in the localization of some higher cognitive brain functions. He first reported that lesions to the caudal part of the inferior frontal gyrus were associated with expressive deficits. Although most of his claims are still true today, the emergence of novel techniques as well as the use of comparative analyses prompts modern research for a re...

Modularity of Mind and Language

The concept of Modularity, i.e., the degree to which the lexicon, syntax, and other neurocognitive domains operate independently of one another, has played an important role in theorizing about brain architecture and function, both in development and in adulthood. In this chapter, we present an overview of the theoretical and empirical arguments relevant to three parameters of modularity: local...