Title: Language, music, and the brain : a mysterious relationship /
Authors: Arbib, Michael A.,; Arbib, Michael A.,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Music psychology; Language; Cognition; Brain physiology; Brain; Language and culture.; Music Psychological aspects; Cognitive neuroscience.
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 behavior 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.
Contents: Part 1: An expanded perspective -- 1. Five terms in serach of a synthesis -- 2. A cross-cultural perspective on the significance of music and dance to culture and society: Insight from BaYaka Pygmies -- 3. Cross-cultural universals and communication structures -- Part 2: Action, emotion, and the semantics -- 4. Shared meaning, mirroring, and joint action -- 5. Emotion in action, interaction, music, and speech -- 6. Neural correlates of music perception 7. Film music and the unfolding narrative -- 8. Semantics of internal and external worlds -- Part 3: Structure -- 9. The infrasture of the planguage-ready brain -- Musical syntax and its phonetics, phonology, and prosody -- 12. Multiple levels of structure in language and music -- Part 4: Integration -- Neural mechanisms of music, singing, and dancing -- 13. Sharing and nonsharing of brain resources for language and music -- 15. Action, language, and music: Events in time and models of the brain -- 16. Computational modeling of mind and music -- 17. The neurobiology of language, speech, and music -- Part 5: Development, evolution, and culture -- 18. Communication, music, and language in infancy -- 19. evolving the language- and music-ready brain -- 20. Birdsong and other animal models for human speech, song, and vocal learning -- 21. Culture and evolution.