News From the Field Tunes and Talk: Researchers Find Music and Language are Processed by the Same Brain Systems
September 27, 2007
| Researchers have long debated whether or not language and music depend on common processes in the mind. Now, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found evidence that the processing of music and language do indeed depend on some of the same brain systems. Full story |
Source Georgetown University Medical Center
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