Neural specializations for speech and pitch: moving beyond the dichotomies

By Robert J. Zatorre, Jackson T. Gandour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008

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Did sexual selection shape human music? Testing predictions from the sexual selection hypothesis of music evolution using a large genetically informative sample of over 10,000 twins (2015, background): “Further, many studies have shown that there is overlap between the regions of the brain that process speech and those that process music (Koelsch et al., 2004; Peretz & Zatorre, 2005; Zatorre & Gandour, 2008).”
Why would Musical Training Benefit the Neural Encoding of Speech? The OPERA Hypothesis (2011, background): “For example, neuroimaging of human pitch perception reveals that when pitch makes lexical distinctions between words (as in tone languages), pitch processing shows a left hemisphere bias, in contrast to the typical right-hemisphere dominance for pitch processing (Zatorre and Gandour, 2008).”
Cross-domain Effects of Music and Language Experience on the Representation of Pitch in the Human Auditory Brainstem (2011, background): “The neural representation of pitch may be influenced by oneʼs experience with music or language at subcortical as well as cortical levels of processing (Krishnan & Gandour, 2009; Patel, 2008; Zatorre & Gandour, 2008; Kraus & Banai, 2007; Zatorre, Belin, & Penhune, 2002).”
Speech and music recruit frequency-specific distributed and overlapping cortical networks (2024, unknown): “Abbreviations according to the Brainnetome Atlas (Fan et al., 2016).”