June Culture Evolution of Language Music. Psychology I: Foundations of Cognition. Language, Music, and the Brain. A Mysterious Relationship. Edited by Michael A. Underlying the study of language and music is the assumption that the comparison of these two domains can shed light on the structural and functional properties of each, while also serving as a test case for theories of how the mind and, ultimately, the brain work.
For example, both domains rely primarily on the auditory modality and involve the perception and production of sound. They require memory capacity for storing representations words, chords, etc. In both cases, some aspects are universal and thus shared across cultures, whereas other aspects are culture-specific.
Moreover, we are not born with the ability to comprehend a specific language or appreciate a specific tonal system. Instead, both abilities are formed through a prolonged learning process that results predominantly in implicit knowledge. The present volume contributes to the study of language and music by bringing together researchers from a variety of scientific disciplines. The book spans a wide range of fields, including archaeology, anthropology, cognitive psychology, computer science, cognitive neuroscience, education, linguistics, and musicology.
The purpose is to provide a snapshot of the different research strands that have focused on language and music, to identify current trends and methodologies that have been or could be applied to the study of both domains, and to outline future research directions. We also hope that the volume will promote the investigation of language and music by fostering interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration.
Background This volume is based on an eponymous conference which was organized by the editors. The conference was originally planned as a one-day event, with two or three invited speakers and about Rebuschat-FM. We quickly realized, however, that there was an extraordinary amount of interest in the topic and that the demand greatly outnumbered the available slots for presentations.
Our small, local symposium thus quickly developed into a three- day international conference, with five keynote presentations, four panel discussions, seven paper and three poster sessions, as well as receptions, music performances, and a formal hall at Jesus College.
In the end, the conference featured presenters, who travelled to the UK from 21 different countries, ranging from Australia and Austria via Greece and Israel to Singapore and the United States. Like the present volume, the conference was structured around four core areas in which the study of music and language has been particularly fruitful: 1 structural comparisons, 2 evolution, 3 learning and processing, and 4 neuroscience.
For each research strand, we invited outstanding researchers to serve as keynote speakers or panellists. Since one of our objectives was to encourage collaboration and discus- sion across disciplines, we decided to follow each keynote presentation with a panel discussion. The keynote speakers were asked to send their presentations to their respective panellists several weeks before the conference so that the latter could pre- pare a minute commentary.
After each panellist had presented their commentary, the session concluded with an open discussion, in which members of the audience could join in. This volume The feedback we received from the conference presenters and delegates was very posi- tive throughout. When we were approached by Oxford University Press regarding the possibility of producing an edited volume inspired by the conference we readily agreed to do so.
We have decided to maintain the four core areas that provided the structure for the conference because these continue to be areas in which much of the research on language and music concentrates.
And because our conference format—a keynote address, followed by a panel discussion—proved very successful, we decided to apply this to the volume as well. The current volume thus consists of four sections, each of which contains a target article, several commentaries on the target article, and a Rebuschat-FM.
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 book 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 Includes bibliographical references pages and indexes Sound elements: pitch and timbre -- Rhythm -- Melody -- Syntax -- Meaning -- Evolution.
There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. Books for People with Print Disabilities. 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.
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