Music & Language
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Auditory Processing Disorder: Can music help?
The other day I attended a fascinating symposium held at UCL. This type of meeting was new to me – a training session that combined useful information for those in research and in clinical practice. It was termed “Masterclass in Advanced Audiology: Auditory processing & Language Disorders: Insights from electrophysiology and imaging studies and applications to clinical practice”. The Masterclass ran for three days (4th-6th May) but I attended the 5th May session which was about understanding APD or Auditory Processing Disorder. And very informative it was too. I could not write about all the talksbut for you , dear reader, I will summarise the work presented by Nina Kraus.…
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Music and Language – not as much overlap as we thought?
I spent my time PhD investigating the similarities and differences between the ways that verbal and musical sounds are processed in short-term memory. So it should come as no surprise that I am always partial to a good music/language study: And I have just read a cracker! A new paper that challenges a tried and (well) tested method and suggests a new exciting paradigm for the future. In sum, the authors argue that there may not be much higher order music/language processing after all… At the time of my PhD, findings were beginning to emerge in large numbers that suggested a great deal of overlap existed in the way that music and…
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