In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the
The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems. Language and music are uniquely hum
A presentation of music and language within an integrative, embodied perspective of brain mechanisms for action, emotion, and social coordination. This book exp
The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of
Since the inception of electroacoustic music in 1948, much has been written about technical developments. This book is one of the first to examine aesthetic iss