Music, Language, and the Brain
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (960 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199755302 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 513 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.Winner of the 2008 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.. 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. In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. 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 ra
The book traverses with ease the disciplinary lines of linguistics, music and neuroscience. The question of whether parallels exist between music and language has until now been a question of wide interest and speculation. I recommend this book enthusiastically as a guide to language and music in the brain and mind, and as a model of integrative thinking."--Reviewed by Daniel Casasanto, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in Language and CognitionThe strength of Patel's book is its ability to provide in-depth studies of music and linguistic cognition in a manner that illustrates both their interconnectedness and their differences. Ladd, Professor of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh"Reading Patel's Music, Language, and the Brain is a deeply rewarding experienc
E. N. Anderson said Similarities and Differences, Language and Music. This is the best book so far on language, the brain, and music. It is highly technical, especially the first five chapters. Nonspecialists with a serious interest can get through the last two ("Meaning" and "Evolution") but the first five are hard going unless you are fairly advanced. Patel reviews an enormous, and almost entirely very new, literature on similarities and differences at the micro level between language and musi. Christopher Lavender said If you have to pick one book on the subject. this is the book! Extremely well written and VERY thorough. Patel's "Music, Language, and the Brain" represents presumably most (if not all) of the data that has been found thus far at the crossroads of music, language, and cognition. It does get technical from time to time but we're dealing with a technical topic and as a musician with only cursory knowledge of linguistics and cognition I still found the technical data well p. "A great reference book" according to Amazon Customer. I bought this book because I had seen it mentioned in a few other books I had read on the topic of music and the brain. Oliver Sacks and Daniel Levitin have both referenced this work at some time. I am, as a music teacher in public schools, always looking for ways to strengthen the argument for keeping music instruction alive in the public schools, and have always believed that the links between learning language and learning
Patel is past president of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition and is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Tufts University.. Aniruddh D