Language, music, syntax and the brain

By Aniruddh D. Patel. Nature Neuroscience, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Singing in the Brain: Insights from Cognitive Neuropsychology (2004, neutral): “To our knowledge, all sources of evidence, from behavioral studies to functional neuro-imaging studies, point to the autonomy of language and music processors despite the fact that the two functions seem to engage similar processing (Patel, 2003).”
Learning pitch patterns in lexical identification by native English-speaking adults (2007, background): “Music and language can both be described in terms of many common structural characteristics, such as syntactic, generative, combinatorial, and rhythmic features (Patel, 2003).”
Getting real about semantic illusions: rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension. (2012, background): “It is conceivable thatMRCs also play a role in non-linguistic domains such as music (Patel, 2003), sequence learning (Christiansen et al., in press), and arithmetic (Núñez-Peña and Honrubia-Serrano, 2004).”
Explaining ‘I Can’t Draw’: Parallels between the Structure and Development of Language and Drawing (2012, neutral): “A comparable assumption has underlined research studying other domains of expression, such as music, with successful results [e.g., Jackendoff & Lerdahl, 2006; Lerdahl & Jackendoff, 1982; Patel, 2003].”
Background music can aid second language learning (2014, neutral): “…a generative syntax: Ades & Steedman, 1982; Fedorenko, Patel, Casasanto, Winawer, & Gibson, 2009; Zatorre, Belin, & Penhune, 2002) and/or by common brain co-activation (Koelsch, 2012; Koelsch, Gunter, Wittfoth & Sammler, 2005; Patel, 2003, 2008; Schön et al., 2010; Slevc, Rosenberg, & Patel, 2009).”
Shared and distinct neural correlates of singing and speaking (2006, background): “In particular, the posterior part of the inferior frontal gyrus commonly thought to contain Broca’s area and to be involved in speech production, has been found to be activated by various musical tasks, among them pitch and rhythm discrimination, pitch memory, and musical syntax (Binder et al., 1997”
Multisensory Stimulation in Stroke Rehabilitation (2012, background): “There are evidence for shared neural processing resources between the phonological/semantic aspects of language and the melodic/harmonic aspects of music (Patel, 2003, 2008; Koelsch et al., 2004; Patel and Iversen, 2007; Besson et al., 2011).”
Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language (2010, background): “The inferior frontal area also provides a common substrate for processing grammatical sentences and familiar musical sequence”
Towards a generative syntax of tonal harmony (2011, background): “On the other hand, empirical findings concerning the cognitive overlap between music and language processing or shared neural substrates 50 51 52 53 provide converging evidence that links with the assumption of some structural parallels.”
Descriptions of Improvisational Thinking by Artist-Level Jazz Musicians (2011, background): “Word choice is guided by syntactic rules just as tonal improvisation is guided by melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic rules (Patel, 2003).”
The Biological Foundations of Music: Insights from Congenital Amusia (2013, neutral): “For example, a currently hotly debated issue concerns the 554 Isabelle Peretz Deutsch 978-0-12-381460-9 00013 sharing (or overlap) of the processing involved in music and speech syntax (e.g., Patel, 2003; Patel et al., 2008).”
Why Use Music in English Language Learning? A Survey of the Literature. (2013, background): “(Patel, 2003: 674) There is, however, an interesting contradiction noted in the literature debating how that occurs.”
Absolute Pitch, Speech, and Tone Language: Some Experiments and a Proposed Framework (2004, background): “ity in the processing of speech and music (McMullen & Saffran, 2004; Patel, 2003; Peretz & Coltheart, 2003; Peretz, Gagnon, Hébert, & Macoir, 2004) and of the evolutionary origins of these two forms of communication (Wallin, Merker, & Brown, 2000).”