Date: 18-Dec-2007 From: Elyse Turr <elyse.turroup.com> Subject: Music, Language, and the Brain: Patel E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Music, Language, and the Brain
Published: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author: Aniruddh D. Patel
Hardback: ISBN: 9780195123753 Pages: 528 Price: U.S. $ 59.95
Abstract:
In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. Since Plato's time, the relationship between music and language has attracted interest and debate from a wide range of thinkers. Recently, scientific research on this topic has been growing rapidly, as scholars from diverse disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, music cognition, and neuroscience are drawn to the music-language interface as one way to explore the extent to which different mental abilities are processed by separate brain mechanisms. Accordingly, the relevant data and theories have been spread across a range of disciplines. This volume provides the first synthesis, arguing that music and language share deep and critical connections, and that comparative research provides a powerful way to study the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying these uniquely human abilities.
"This book will be required reading for specialists, and interesting and informative reading for everyone. It manages to combine remarkable breadth of coverage with genuine depth of understanding, and it's clearly and elegantly written. The author has a clear point of view and wants to get it across to other researchers, but never lets that get in the way of the book's more fundamental goal of putting the latest research within the reach of the interested non-specialist reader." -D.R. Ladd, Professor of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
Linguistic Field(s):
Cognitive Science
Neurolinguistics
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