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Music, the food of neuroscience?

Playing, listening to and creating music involves practically every cognitive function. Robert Zatorre explains how music can teach us about speech, brain plasticity and even the origins of emotion.

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Figure 1: The processing of sound waves from a musical instrument.

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Zatorre, R. Music, the food of neuroscience?. Nature 434, 312–315 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/434312a

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