Language, music, and the brain : a mysterious relationship

摘要: A presentation of music and language within an integrative, embodied perspective brain mechanisms for action, emotion, social coordination. This book explores the relationships between language, music, by pursuing four key themes crosstalk among them: song dance as a bridge language; multiple levels structure from to behavior culture; semantics internal external worlds role emotion; evolution development language. The offers specially commissioned expositions current research accessible both experts across disciplines non-experts. These chapters provide background reports groups specialists that chart controversies future directions on each theme. looks beyond mere auditory experience, probing embodiment links speech gesture dance. study brains monkeys songbirds illuminates hypotheses support while infants calibrates developmental timetable their capacities. result is unique will interest any reader seeking learn more about or appeal especially readers intrigued with other brain. Contributors Francisco Aboitiz, Michael A. Arbib, Annabel J. Cohen, Ian Cross, Peter Ford Dominey, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Leonardo Fogassi, Jonathan Fritz, Thomas Hagoort, John Halle, Henkjan Honing, Atsushi Iriki, Petr Janata, Erich Jarvis, Stefan Koelsch, Gina Kuperberg, D. Robert Ladd, Fred Lerdahl, Stephen C. Levinson, Jerome Lewis, Katja Liebal, Jonatas Manzolli, Bjorn Merker, Lawrence M. Parsons, Aniruddh Patel, Isabelle Peretz, David Poeppel, Josef P. Rauschecker, Nikki Rickard, Klaus Scherer, Gottfried Schlaug, Uwe Seifert, Mark Steedman, Dietrich Stout, Francesca Stregapede, Sharon Thompson-Schill, Laurel Trainor, Sandra E. Trehub, Paul Verschure