CGSC 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Neuroimaging, Focal And Diffuse Brain Injury, Music Psychology
18 Mar 2018
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Brain imaging and cases of double dissociation seem the most appropriate way to measure resource sharing. However, sometimes research in neuroscience can lead to inconclusive results regarding the processes of interest. Selective deficits of music cognition in normal individuals with focal brain damage ( acquired amusia ) : loss of sensitivity to musical key structure but no language impairments. There is a significant overlap in certain aspects of musical and linguistic processing in normal individuals. Representational specificity should be conceptually distinguished from processing specificity. E. g. , knowledge of words and their syntactic properties involves a set of representations which are distinct from the representations of chords and their harmonic relations. When similar cognitive operations are conducted on domain-specific knowledge to build a coherent percept, these operations share neural resources. Language is a syntactic system: it has discrete structural elements (e. g. , words). These elements are combined into phrases organized hierarchically. Music also has discrete structural elements combined into hierarchically structured sequences.
