The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

including establishing territories,courting,and communicating between parent and chick.The brain control of song,at least in pas ...

information on conditioning in sea slugs has been applied to our under- standing of neural mechanisms of learning in mammals. Ev ...

evolution of those systems,which is related to the evolution of encephal- ization:enlargement of the brain in birds and mammals ...

classic evolutionary terms.Lateralization to this extent is not a trait shared by all birds and mammals.Among mammals,it is only ...

Pepperberg,I.M.(1994).Vocal learning in African grey parrots:Effects of social interac- tion.Auk111:300–313. Polyak,S.(1957).The ...

Dean Falk Abstract Recent positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies show that the cortical ...

and right hemispheres,language and music “time share”many neuro- logical underpinnings. Figure 13.1 illustrates a number of brai ...

for different categories of objects (people,animals,tools) depends partly on different regions of the left temporal lobe that ar ...

the symbolism of language,so much so that a person with damage here may be mute. Other areas that are located in the left fronta ...

language and music is open to new exploration and,potentially,new surprises. Neuroanatomical Substrates of Music Although all no ...

positions relative to one another (Sergent 1993).Listening to a score,as opposed to hearing scales,adds area 22 on the right sid ...

plicated sight-reading task apparently acts as a kind of Broca’s area for the hand.As such,it would be interesting to learn if t ...

neurologically dissociated [Peretz and Kolinsky 1993],with the left hemi- sphere apparently better at processing the latter.) Th ...

ment of the left hemisphere when lyrics are part of the song,but greater dependence on the right hemisphere when they are not (Y ...

motor cortex.However,this assumption is not valid because Broca’s area is known to be activated during nonspeech tongue movement ...

However,the central sulcus on both sides is deeper in the musicians, especially those who began training at a young age,resultin ...

material to be heard by the left ear and accompanying low-pitched mate- rial to be heard by the right ear.Subjects expressed ast ...

in rate of finger tapping for each hand were measured during three con- ditions:repeating a simple spoken phrase,singing a rote ...

more male gorillas sometimes vocalize together in a manner that perhaps foreshadows human singing without words (gorillian chant ...

hominid ancestors,the australopithecines.Minimally,they should have possessed a rich repertoire of calls employed in social cont ...