Musical aptitude and language talent are highly intertwined when it comes to phonetic
language ability. Research on pre-school children's musical abilities and foreign language …

Although comparative research has made substantial progress in clarifying the relationship
between language and music as neurocognitive systems from both a theoretical and …

A growing body of evidence has highlighted behavioral connections between musical
rhythm and linguistic syntax, suggesting that these abilities may be mediated by common …

Recent evidence shows that hippocampal theta oscillations, usually linked to memory and
navigation, are also observed during online language processing, suggesting a shared …

Linguistic research showed that the depth of syntactic embedding is reflected in brain theta
power. Here, we test whether this also extends to non-linguistic stimuli, specifically music …

This study investigated whether individuals with congenital amusia, a neurogenetic disorder
of musical pitch perception, were able to process musical emotions in single chords either …

Together with language, music is perhaps the most distinctive behavioral trait of the human
species. Different hypotheses have been proposed to explain why only humans perform …

During listening, acoustic features of sounds are extracted in the auditory system (in the
auditory brainstem, thalamus, and auditory cortex). To establish auditory percepts of …

Two experiments were conducted on a cohort of Chinese native speakers using the Event-
Related Potential (ERP) technique in the interference paradigm, with acceptable or …

In music, harmonic syntactic structures are organized hierarchically through local and long‐
distance dependencies. This study investigated whether congenital amusia, a …