Patel Aniruddh D
The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego, California 92121, USA.
Nat Neurosci. 2003 Jul;6(7):674-81. doi: 10.1038/nn1082.
The comparative study of music and language is drawing an increasing amount of research interest. Like language, music is a human universal involving perceptually discrete elements organized into hierarchically structured sequences. Music and language can thus serve as foils for each other in the study of brain mechanisms underlying complex sound processing, and comparative research can provide novel insights into the functional and neural architecture of both domains. This review focuses on syntax, using recent neuroimaging data and cognitive theory to propose a specific point of convergence between syntactic processing in language and music. This leads to testable predictions, including the prediction that that syntactic comprehension problems in Broca's aphasia are not selective to language but influence music perception as well.
音乐与语言的比较研究正吸引着越来越多的研究兴趣。与语言一样，音乐是一种人类共有的现象，它包含由感知上离散的元素组织成层次结构序列。因此，在研究复杂声音处理背后的大脑机制时，音乐和语言可以相互作为对照，比较研究能够为这两个领域的功能和神经结构提供新的见解。本综述聚焦于句法，利用近期的神经成像数据和认知理论，提出语言和音乐句法处理之间的一个具体交汇点。这进而得出了可检验的预测，包括预测布洛卡失语症中的句法理解问题并非语言所特有，而是也会影响音乐感知。
