New ways into brains music room

This is an automatic summary, original reduced by 82%.

We marry to music, graduate to music, mourn to music.

Given the antiquity, universality and deep popularity of music, many researchers had long assumed that the human brain must be equipped with some sort of music room, a distinctive piece of cortical architecture dedicated to detecting and interpreting the dulcet signals of song.

By mathematically analyzing scans of the auditory cortex and grouping clusters of brain cells with similar activation patterns, the scientists have identified neural pathways that react almost exclusively to the sound of music - any music.

Photo Importantly, the M.I.T. team demonstrated that the speech and music circuits are in different parts of the brain's sprawling auditory cortex, where all sound signals are interpreted, and that each is largely deaf to the other's sonic cues, although there is some overlap when it comes to responding to songs with lyrics.

Though the survival value that music held for our ancestors may not be as immediately obvious as the power to recognize words, Dr. Rauschecker added, "Music works as a group cohesive. Music-making with other people in your tribe is a very ancient, human thing to do."

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, the director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas, said that when previous neuroscientists failed to find any anatomically distinct music center in the brain, they came up with any number of rationales to explain the results.

Summary Source | FAQ | Theory | Feedback | Top five keywords: music^#1 sound^#2 brain^#3 speech^#4 researchers^#5

NOTICE: This thread is for discussing the submission topic only. Do not discuss the concept of the autotldr bot here.