Overlap of Musical and Linguistic Syntax Processing: Intracranial ERP Evidence

The present study investigated the co‐localization of musical and linguistic syntax processing in the human brain. EEGs were recorded from subdural electrodes placed on the left and right perisylvian cortex. The neural generators of the early potentials elicited by syntactic errors in music and lang...

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Published in:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2009-07, Vol.1169 (1), p.494-498
Main Authors: Sammler, D., Koelsch, S., Ball, T., Brandt, A., Elger, C. E., Friederici, A. D., Grigutsch, M., Huppertz, H.-J., Knösche, T. R., Wellmer, J., Widman, G., Schulze-Bonhage, A.
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Language:English
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Adult
ELAN
ERAN
event-related potential (ERP)
Evoked Potentials - physiology
Female
Humans
Language
Linguistics
Male
Music
Semantics
Speech Perception - physiology
subdural
syntax
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Summary:The present study investigated the co‐localization of musical and linguistic syntax processing in the human brain. EEGs were recorded from subdural electrodes placed on the left and right perisylvian cortex. The neural generators of the early potentials elicited by syntactic errors in music and language were localized by means of distributed source modeling and compared within subjects. The combined results indicated a partial overlap of the sources within the bilateral superior temporal gyrus, and, to a lesser extent, in the left inferior frontal gyrus, qualifying these areas as shared anatomic substrates of early syntactic error detection in music and language.
ISSN:0077-8923
1749-6632
1930-6547
DOI:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04792.x