Music Reading Flashcards
Infants as young as ___ turn toward consonant sounds and away from dissonant sounds?
2 months
The experience of Shebalin suggests what?
That music and speech are processed independently
He could no longer talk or understand speech but he could still write music
What part of the brain prefers to respond to timbre?
The right temporal lobe
What did the experiment on Guinea pigs show?
A nonimportant tone was made important to subjects by making it a signal for a mild foot shock
The neuron’s tuning preferences shifted from their original frequency to that of the tone
What do musicians show as compared to nonmusicians?
Hyper development of certain areas in their brains
Why do musicians display greater responses to sounds?
Because their auditory cortex is more extensive
What other parts of the brain are larger in musicians than in nonmusicians?
The anterior corpus callosum that interconnects the two motor areas
The motor cortex itself
The cerebellum
What did I.R. exhibit?
She cannot distinguish between melodies but she can have normal emotional reactions to different types of music
The temporal lobe is needed to comprehend melody but not to produce an emotional reaction
What sounds do simple and complex ratios produce?
Simple = consonant
Complex = dissonant
Where are consonant sounds processed?
The orbitofrontal area of the right hemisphere
