Music & Language
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Music and language overlap: the latest review
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.…
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Segregation and Integration in Music and Language
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…