This review examines the cerebral control of musical behaviors. In clinical populations,
impairment of related musical and linguistic functions, such as reading, writing, articulation,
time sense, and prosody, implies the likely role of the language hemisphere in music.
Similarly, for both clinical and normal populations, an investigation of mental abilities
common to music and language points to left hemisphere control for certain aspects of
temporal order, duration, simultaneity, rhythm, effector motor control, and categorical …