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Speech-specific brain regions?
Article cited: Dick, F., Lee, H.L., Nusbaum, H., & Price, C.J. (2010). Auditory-Motor Expertise Alters “Speech Selectivity” in Professional Musicians and Actors. Cerebral Cortex. There is a long-standing debate in the literature regarding how ‘specialised’ the brain is for speech processing. This is of particular relevance in my field where over the past few years I have seen growing comparisons made between the processing of speech and music in the brain. The most notable work for me being Ani Patel’s Shared Syntactic Integration Resource Hypothesis (SSIRH) . This week I heard about the publication of a new related paper that looks directly at brain activation (fMRI) during language and music…
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Music and shape
Last week I attended ‘Music and shape workshop II- Exploring qualitative research methods’, an event organised by my colleague Dr Helen Daynes who works at the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Process (CMPCP). The workshop took place at King’s College, where Helen works with Professor Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. The workshop is part of a series that are following Helen and Daniel’s current research project called ‘Music and Shape’. As part of the project they are researching the ways in which experienced performers use the idea of ‘shape’ when thinking about or performing music (or don’t use it, as the case may be). The aim of the workshop was…
