Hello dear reader and a happy 2013 to you!I hope that you had a pleasant holiday season. I enjoyed visiting my family in both York and Zaragoza (Spain) and completely overate, as is right at this time of the year. Now a slightly chubbier version of me is sitting back in the office catching up on my reading. One of the first things I picked up this week was a review article by Robert (Bob) Slevc on the shared and distinct processing mechanism for language and music. The review was so good I added it to my lecture on this subject and replaced my previous ‘essential reading’ for this class.…