Listening to music often evokes an intangible, emotional reaction, and the neural basis of this reaction is just as complicated. Pitch, melody, rhythm and other components of music are all processed by various areas of the brain. Until now, though, no one neural population had been identified that could respond selectively to music as opposed to speech or other noises. Now, an MIT study claims to have found this specific neural population.
By: Emily Reynolds,
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