Neurobiology of Musical Perception, Pitch & Auditory Cortex

Name: Neurobiology of Musical Perception, Pitch & Auditory Cortex
Uploaded: 2021-10-27T14:19:25.000Z
Duration: 1 h 12 min 24 s
Channel: Nancy Kanwisher
Description: Discover how the human brain processes music, exploring whether our capacity for melody and rhythm relies on dedicated neural machinery or repurposed language…

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Neurobiology of Musical Perception, Pitch & Auditory Cortex

Nancy Kanwisher MIT

1:12:24·2021·undergraduate

Discover how the human brain processes music, exploring whether our capacity for melody and rhythm relies on dedicated neural machinery or repurposed language circuits.

Examines the functional neurological organization of music processing in the human brain, contrasting it with speech and general auditory perception. Through cognitive tasks, developmental findings, brain-damage studies, and advanced neuroimaging analyses like independent component analysis, the lecture investigates whether music relies on dedicated neural machinery.

Referenced inMIT OpenCourseWare · MIT 9.13 (Spring 2019)

Bio & Neuro Neuroscience & Cognition Cognitive Neuroscience & Perception Auditory Neuroscience Music Cognition

Lecture Guide

1Music is a uniquely human and universally present behavioral phenomenon across all studied cultures.
2Infants exhibit early perceptual abilities for rhythm and pitch, undergoing perceptual narrowing toward familiar cultural meters over the first year of life.
3High-level language regions in the brain do not respond to music, demonstrating that music does not share high-level linguistic machinery.
4Data-driven independent component analysis of auditory fMRI data reveals distinct functional components selective for music and speech.

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9.13: The Human Brain

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Nancy Kanwisher

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Walter A Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Nancy Kanwisher is an Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, a leading cognitive neuroscientist known for her work on brain specialization for perception.

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Course textbook

Principles of Neural Science

Eric R. Kandel, John D. Koester et al.

McGraw-Hill Medical · 2021 · 6th Edition

Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel's benchmark reference on cortical specialization, visual and auditory perception, synaptic plasticity, and cognitive neuroscience.

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