Abstract
Brain-damaged patients were asked to judge whether two familiar but lyricless musical phrases were taken from the same or from two different songs. Foils were built into the task so that patients' relative reliance on music's linear sequential properties, on its general mood characteristics, or on its susceptibility to flexible classification could be assessed. The principal results revealed that Broca's aphasics and patients with right anterior insult encountered the greatest difficulty overall in making same song/different song judgments. However, right anterior patients' musical judgments relied almost exclusively on the mood of the phrases but Broca's aphasics' judgments relied on a linear sequential musical processing strategy. These data indicate that strategies for processing musical material can be dissociated following localized cerebral insult.
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