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Book: Language, Music, and the Brain

Jul 19

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Title: Language, Music, and the Brain
Subtitle: A Mysterious Relationship
Series Title: Strungmann Forum Reports

Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/language-music-and-brain

Editor: MIchael A Arbib

Hardback: ISBN: 9780262018104 Pages: 584 Price: U.S. $ 50.00

Abstract:

This book explores the relationships between language, music, and the brain by pursuing four key themes and the crosstalk among them: song and dance as a bridge between music and language; multiple levels of structure from brain to behaviour to culture; the semantics of internal and external worlds and the role of emotion; and the evolution and development of language. The book offers specially commissioned expositions of current research accessible both to experts across disciplines and to non-experts. These chapters provide the background for reports by groups of specialists that chart current controversies and future directions of research on each theme.

The book looks beyond mere auditory experience, probing the embodiment that links speech to gesture and music to dance. The study of the brains of monkeys and songbirds illuminates hypotheses on the evolution of brain mechanisms that support music and language, while the study of infants calibrates the developmental timetable of their capacities. The result is a unique book that will interest any reader seeking to learn more about language or music and will appeal especially to readers intrigued by the relationships of language and music with each other and with the brain.