Aniruddh D Patel

..This paper presents two assumptions underlying this idea, as well as two clarifications, and suggests directions for future research...

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..These findings indicate that synchronization to a musical beat is not uniquely human and suggest that animal models can provide insights into the neurobiology and evolution of human music [6]...

..We consider the implications of their methods and findings for establishing a link between musical training and phonetic abilities more generally...

..The methods presented here are suitable for studying speech-music relations in a broad range of cultures...

..The results of these two studies add to a growing body of evidence linking music and language with regard to structural patterns and brain processing...

..Thus it appears that the dissociation between spoken and musical pitch perception in tone-deaf individuals is due to a deficit at a higher level than simple pitch-change detection...

..This suggests that beat perception and synchronization have a special affinity with the auditory system...

..The latter finding suggests that one effective strategy for comparing rhythm in language and music is to determine if differences in linguistic rhythm between cultures are reflected in differences in musical rhythm...

..This method is particularly well suited to studying temporal neural correlates of complex auditory sequences (such as speech or music) which engage multiple brain areas as perception unfolds in time...

..These data demonstrate a specific relationship between pitch perception and the timing (phase) of dynamic patterns of cortical activity...

..The results argue against the language-specificity of the P600 and suggest that language and music can be studied in parallel to address questions of neural specificity in cognitive processing...

..Thus, there is an empirical basis for the claim that spoken prosody leaves an imprint on the music of a culture...

..This leads to testable predictions, including the prediction that that syntactic comprehension problems in Broca's aphasia are not selective to language but influence music perception as well...

..Based on these empirical data, a model of the neural populations responsible for phase tracking suggests that it is produced by a subpopulation ( approximately 25%) of the cells generating the aSSR...

..Given the suggested role of beta in motor processing and long-range intracortical coordination, it is hypothesized that the motor system influences metrical interpretation of sound, even in the absence of overt movement...

..These results demonstrate that non-human pitch processing is more flexible than previously thought and that the flexibility in pitch processing strategy is stimulus dependent...

..However, spectral analysis revealed a change in the temporal structure of variability around 0.08 Hz (a period of about 12 s or 24 taps), which roughly agrees with earlier findings reported in the literature...

..It is suggested that the observed perceptual differences reflect the rhythms of the two languages, and that native language can exert an influence on general auditory perception at a basic level...