Good morning, dear reader. A couple of years ago I had the good fortune to work with Sebastian Finkel, a very promising PhD student currently working at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He recently helped to organise a conference at his University called “Segregation and Integration in Music and Language“.  And because he is so lovely he agreed to provide a summary of some of the key conference points for you and I. So without further ado, I give you a report on SIMAL2012 by Sebastian Fikel: Music and language share common neural resources; this is sometimes quit obvious, for example: the same muscles (abdominal, intercostal, extrinsic and intrinsic laryngeal…