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Arch Neurocien 2010; 15 (3)

Neurosciences and music

Buentello GRM, Martínez RAR, Alonso VAA

Language: Spanish
References: 45
Page: 160-167
PDF size: 230.72 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Music is the ordered combination of sounds through time. In order to perceive, interpret and create it, composing or playing a musical instrument, different cognitive abilities must work together. It is perceived and prompts emotions in every human being. Since birth, newborns react favorably to consonant sounds and to the melodic pattern of their mothers’ voices, having been present in every human society since the origins of man. Some hypothesis argue that it has been present long before the appearance of man (without artistic value), in the form of animal strategies to reproduce or socialize. New metabolic and functional neurological imaging technology and the study of some musician and non-musician patients suffering neurological diseases have begun reveal and unveil neuronal systems for music. Musicians perceive music in a different way than the general population because they process it in their left hemisphere and possess specific regional asymmetries in primary motor and auditory cortexes. Some musicians develop perfect pitch, which is defined as the ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of an external reference. New research on the subject is needed to better identify neural networks and general cerebral function when listening to or creating music.


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