Brain scans show that when people listen to songs, an area in the left hemisphere decodes speech-like sounds while one on the right processes musical information.
Christoph Hetzmannseder/Getty ImagesYour brain uses the left side to make sense of lyrics and the right side for a song's melody.A song fuses words and music. Yet the human brain can instantly separate a song's lyrics from its melody.inThursday that song sounds are processed simultaneously by two separate brain areas – one in the left hemisphere and one in the right.
"If you have a stroke in the left hemisphere you are much more likely to have a language impairment than if you have a stroke in the right hemisphere," Sammler says. Moreover, brain damage to certain areas of the right hemisphere can affect a person's ability to perceive music.Studies show that their brains decode sounds using two separate measures. One assesses how quickly a sound fluctuates over time. The other detects the frequencies in a sound.
As a result, when we hear a song, it engages both hemispheres of the brain in a way that's different than either speech or music alone, Zatorre says. But it's not just songs that require both hemispheres working together, Sammler says. That process is necessary to fully experience any type of sound."Charles Darwin said the languages that we use today emerged from something that was a song-like proto-language," she says.
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