The anatomy of language has been investigated with PET or fMRI for more than 20years.
Here I attempt to provide an overview of the brain areas associated with heard speech …

Language is typically viewed as fundamental to human intelligence. Music, while
recognized as a human universal, is often treated as an ancillary ability–one dependent on …

Does brain asymmetry for speech and music emerge from acoustical cues or from domain-
specific neural networks? We selectively filtered temporal or spectral modulations in sung …

Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music Theory Winner of the Deems
Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, ASCAP What is it about the music you love that makes you …

After a brief historical perspective of the relationship between language and music, we
review our work on transfer of training from music to speech that aimed at testing the general …

Musical emotions, such as happiness and sadness, have been investigated using
instrumental music devoid of linguistic content. However, pop and rock, the most common …

There is a general consensus that music is both universal and communicative, and musical
dialogue is a key element in much music-therapeutic practice. However, the idea that music …

Despite language disabilities in autism, music abilities are frequently preserved.
Paradoxically, brain regions associated with these functions typically overlap, enabling …

Objective Previous studies suggest that daily music listening can aid stroke recovery, but
little is known about the stimulus‐dependent and neural mechanisms driving this effect …

Theories expounding the neural relationship between speech and singing range from
sharing neural circuitry, to relying on opposite hemispheres. Yet, hodological studies …