Musical experience shapes human brainstem encoding of linguistic pitch patterns.
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SUBMITTER: Wong PC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4508274 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr
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Musical experience shapes human brainstem encoding of linguistic pitch patterns.
Wong Patrick C M PC Skoe Erika E Russo Nicole M NM Dees Tasha T Kraus Nina N
Nature neuroscience 20070311 4
Music and speech are very cognitively demanding auditory phenomena generally attributed to cortical rather than subcortical circuitry. We examined brainstem encoding of linguistic pitch and found that musicians show more robust and faithful encoding compared with nonmusicians. These results not only implicate a common subcortical manifestation for two presumed cortical functions, but also a possible reciprocity of corticofugal speech and music tuning, providing neurophysiological explanations fo ...[more]
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