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Music Processing in the Brain

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Music perception involves acoustic analysis, auditory memory, auditory scene analysis, processing of interval relations and of musical syntax and semantics, and activation of (pre)motor representations of actions. Moreover, music perception potentially elicits emotions, thus giving rise to the modulation of emotional effector systems such as the autonomic nervous system, the hormonal system, and the immune system. EEG and fMRI studies inform us about the time course of the processes underlying music perception, as well as about where in the brain these processes might be located.

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Introduction

Music has been proven to be a valuable tool for the understanding of human cognition, human emotion, and their underlying brain mechanisms. Music is part of the human nature: It appears that throughout human history, in every human culture, people have played and enjoyed music. The oldest musical instruments discovered so far are around 30,000–40,000 years old...

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