Jazz Players' Brains See Music as Language

Friday, February 21, 2014 - 16:00 in Psychology & Sociology

When jazz musicians let their creativity flow and start to improvise melodies, they use parts of their brains typically associated with spoken language — specifically, regions that help people interpret syntax or the structure of sentences, according to a new study.    

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