The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music by Isabelle Peretz
English | Oct 2, 2003 | ISBN: 0198525206 | 484 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
Music offers a unique opportunity to better understand the organization of the human brain. Like language, music exists in all human societies. Like language, music is a complex, rule-governed activity that seems specific to humans, and associated with a specific brain architecture. Yet unlike most other high-level functions of the human brain–and unlike language–music is a skil at which only a minority of people become proficient.