Significance of Broca's area and ventral premotor cortex for music-syntactic processing

Author:Koelsch, Stefan

Article Title:Significance of Broca's area and ventral premotor cortex for music-syntactic processing

Abstract:
This paper suggests that a cortical network comprising inferior frontolateral cortex [IFLC, corresponding to Brodmann's area (BA),44], ventrolateral premotor cortex (vIPMC), and anterior superior temporal gyrus (aSTG) is involved in. the processing of musical structure. This network presumably calculates harmonic relations between a chord and a preceding harmonic sequence, is involved in the detection of music-structural irregularities, and organizes fast short-term predictions of upcoming musical events.

Keywords: music; syntax; Broca's area; BA 44; ventral premotor cortex

DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70390-3

Source:CORTEX

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