Petr Janata is in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA. petr.janata@dartmouth.edu
People commonly attribute semantic meaning to musical passages, but there have been few scientific studies of this process. Now Koelsch and colleagues report that brief excerpts of classical music cause behavioral and electrophysiological priming effects that are indistinguishable from those evoked by sentences, suggesting that music can convey meaning.
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