Journal article
Music and language side by side in the brain: a PET study of the generation of melodies and sentences
Abstract
Parallel generational tasks for music and language were compared using positron emission tomography. Amateur musicians vocally improvised melodic or linguistic phrases in response to unfamiliar, auditorily presented melodies or phrases. Core areas for generating melodic phrases appeared to be in left Brodmann area (BA) 45, right BA 44, bilateral temporal planum polare, lateral BA 6, and pre-SMA. Core areas for generating sentences seemed to be …
Authors
Brown S; Martinez MJ; Parsons LM
Journal
European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 2791–2803
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
May 2006
DOI
10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04785.x
ISSN
0953-816X