Cortex
Volume 47, Issue 6 , Pages 659-673 , June 2011

Are left fronto-temporal brain areas a prerequisite for normal music-syntactic processing?

  • Daniela Sammler

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
    • ,
  • Stefan Koelsch

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
    • Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion”, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion”, Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
    • ,
  • Angela D. Friederici

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Received 29 July 2009 ,Revised 5 January 2010 ,Accepted 7 April 2010.

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