may provide a sufficient mechanism for the processing of spectrotemporal features of indi-
vidual sounds. Subsequent processing of higher-order temporal patterns formed by those
individual sounds depends on processing in bilateral temperofrontal networks. These net-
works provide a first stage in the neural processing of music. Outstanding issues relate to
the relationship between the elements of these networks and the perceptual attributes of
the stimulus, the type of subject, and the type of task, to name but three.
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