Investigating the Brain with Music

Stefan Koelsch

    

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Musical syntax is processed in Broca's area (nat neurosci, 2001)
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Brain indices of music processing - nonmusicians are musical 
(Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 12, 2000)
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Bach speaks: A cortical language network serves the processing of music (NeuroImage, 17, 2002)

Music, Language and Meaning: Brain Signatures of Semantic Processing (Nature Neuroscience, 2004)

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Towards a neural basis of music perception (Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2005)

Adults and children processing music: An fMRI-study (NeuroImage 25, 2005)
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Neural substrates of processing syntax and semantics in music (Current Opinion in Neurobiology 15, 2005)
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    see also: Cortex (in press): Significance of Broca's area and ventral premotor cortex for music-syntactic processing

Music matters: Pre-attentive musicality ... (Psychophysiology 39, 2002) 
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Interaction between syntax processing in language and in music (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2005)

NeuroReport 12(7), 2001: Differentiating ERAN and MMN: An ERP-study 
This link includes sound examples of auditory oddball paradimgs suited to elicit an abstract feature MMN, and a frequency MMN. It also includes sound examples of  chord sequences with music-syntactic irregularities. 




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