The function of the anterior-most portion of the temporal lobes, the temporal pole, is not well
understood. Anatomists have long considered it part of an extended limbic system based on …

Music, a universal art form that exists in every culture around the world, is integral to a
number of social and courtship activities, and is closely associated with other creative …

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 …

Recovery from aphasia can be achieved through recruitment of either perilesional brain
regions in the affected hemisphere or homologous language regions in the nonlesional …

In this PET study, non-musicians passively listened to unfamiliar instrumental music
revealed afterward to elicit strongly pleasant feelings. Activations were observed in the …

Structure and function of the human brain are affected by training in both linguistic and
musical domains. Individuals with intensive vocal musical training provide a useful model for …

The medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) is regarded as a region of the brain that supports self-
referential processes, including the integration of sensory information with self-knowledge …

Parallel generational tasks for music and language were compared using positron emission
tomography. Amateur musicians vocally improvised melodic or linguistic phrases in …

This study reports an activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta‐analysis of imaging studies
of chronic developmental stuttering in adults. Two parallel meta‐analyses were carried …

This 3-T fMRI study investigates brain regions similarly and differentially involved with
listening and covert production of singing relative to speech. Given the greater use of …