How The Brain Teases Apart A Song's Words And Music
Brain scans show that when people listen to songs, an area in the left hemisphere decodes speech-like sounds while one on the right processes musical information.
by Jon Hamilton
Feb 27, 2020
2 minutes
A song fuses words and music. Yet the human brain can instantly separate a song's lyrics from its melody.
And now scientists think they know how this happens.
A team led by researchers at McGill University in Thursday that song sounds are processed simultaneously by two separate brain areas â one in the left hemisphere and one in the
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