Response: A commentary on: "Neural overlap in processing music and speech".

Barbara Tillmann,Emmanuel Bigand

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00491

Abstract

Response: A commentary on: "Neural overlap in processing music and speech".

Highlights

In comparison to a more classical approach investigating the modularity of music and language processing, recent research focuses on the investigation how and to what extent music and speech processing share neural correlates
Kunert and Slevc (2015) point out that behavioral and electrophysiological studies can contribute to this investigation, and they provide an overview of research using a music-language interference paradigm
The first point is crucial for musical structure manipulations: the material must be constructed to exclude explanations based on low-level processing, which might provide a Investigating music and speech processing more parsimonious interpretation of the data than higher-level cognitive structure processing (e.g., Bigand et al, 2014; Collins et al, 2014)

Summary

Introduction

In comparison to a more classical approach investigating the modularity of music and language processing, recent research focuses on the investigation how and to what extent music and speech processing share neural correlates. In their commentary, Kunert and Slevc (2015) point out that behavioral and electrophysiological studies can contribute to this investigation, and they provide an overview of research using a music-language interference paradigm.

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