music and language

Syntax in music and language: The role of cognitive control 

The relationship between structural (or syntactic) processing in music and in language is not yet clear. Evidence indicating that these two processes are shared conflicts with other results suggesting that they are largely distinct. These conflicting …

Music and early language acquisition

Language is typically viewed as fundamental to human intelligence. Music, while recognized as a human universal, is often treated as an ancillary ability – one dependent on or derivative of language. In contrast, we argue that it is more productive …

Language and music: sound, structure, and meaning

Language and music are the most impressive examples of humans’ capacity to process complex sound and structure. Though interest in the relationship between these two abilities has a long history, only recently has cognitive and neuroscientific …

Meaning in music and language: Three key differences. Comment on “Towards a neural basis of processing musical semantics” by Stefan Koelsch

Making psycholinguistics musical: Self-paced reading time evidence for shared processing of linguistic and musical syntax 

Linguistic processing, especially syntactic processing, is often considered a hallmark of human cognition; thus, the domain specificity or domain generality of syntactic processing has attracted considerable debate. The present experiments address …