Music and the Origins of Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and the Origins of Language write by Downing A. Thomas. This book was released on 1995-06-15. Music and the Origins of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study analyses reflections on music and considers ways in which it facilitates links between language and meaning.
Music and the Origins of Language
Music and the Origins of Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and the Origins of Language write by Downing A. Thomas. This book was released on 2006-11-02. Music and the Origins of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. It has escaped notice, however, that music figured prominently in that search. This study analyzes reflections on music and music theory as they appear within the logical and narrative structure of texts by, for example, Rousseau, Diderot, Rameau and Condillac, and considers the ways in which music facilitates links between language and meaning, between conceptions of an original society and an ideal social order.
Music, Language, and the Brain
Music, Language, and the Brain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music, Language, and the Brain write by Aniruddh D. Patel. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Music, Language, and the Brain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. Since Plato's time, the relationship between music and language has attracted interest and debate from a wide range of thinkers. Recently, scientific research on this topic has been growing rapidly, as scholars from diverse disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, music cognition, and neuroscience are drawn to the music-language interface as one way to explore the extent to which different mental abilities are processed by separate brain mechanisms. Accordingly, the relevant data and theories have been spread across a range of disciplines. This volume provides the first synthesis, arguing that music and language share deep and critical connections, and that comparative research provides a powerful way to study the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying these uniquely human abilities. Winner of the 2008 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.
The Singing Neanderthals
The Singing Neanderthals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Singing Neanderthals write by Steven J. Mithen. This book was released on 2006. The Singing Neanderthals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of our language instinct. Steven Mithen draws on a huge range of sources, from neurological case studies, through child psychology and the communication systems of non-human primates to the latest paleoarchaeological evidence.
Language, Music, and the Brain
Language, Music, and the Brain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language, Music, and the Brain write by Michael A. Arbib. This book was released on 2013-06-28. Language, Music, and the Brain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A presentation of music and language within an integrative, embodied perspective of brain mechanisms for action, emotion, and social coordination. This book explores the relationships between language, music, and the brain by pursuing four key themes and the crosstalk among them: song and dance as a bridge between music and language; multiple levels of structure from brain to behavior to culture; the semantics of internal and external worlds and the role of emotion; and the evolution and development of language. The book offers specially commissioned expositions of current research accessible both to experts across disciplines and to non-experts. These chapters provide the background for reports by groups of specialists that chart current controversies and future directions of research on each theme. The book looks beyond mere auditory experience, probing the embodiment that links speech to gesture and music to dance. The study of the brains of monkeys and songbirds illuminates hypotheses on the evolution of brain mechanisms that support music and language, while the study of infants calibrates the developmental timetable of their capacities. The result is a unique book that will interest any reader seeking to learn more about language or music and will appeal especially to readers intrigued by the relationships of language and music with each other and with the brain. Contributors Francisco Aboitiz, Michael A. Arbib, Annabel J. Cohen, Ian Cross, Peter Ford Dominey, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Leonardo Fogassi, Jonathan Fritz, Thomas Fritz, Peter Hagoort, John Halle, Henkjan Honing, Atsushi Iriki, Petr Janata, Erich Jarvis, Stefan Koelsch, Gina Kuperberg, D. Robert Ladd, Fred Lerdahl, Stephen C. Levinson, Jerome Lewis, Katja Liebal, Jônatas Manzolli, Bjorn Merker, Lawrence M. Parsons, Aniruddh D. Patel, Isabelle Peretz, David Poeppel, Josef P. Rauschecker, Nikki Rickard, Klaus Scherer, Gottfried Schlaug, Uwe Seifert, Mark Steedman, Dietrich Stout, Francesca Stregapede, Sharon Thompson-Schill, Laurel Trainor, Sandra E. Trehub, Paul Verschure
