Abstract

MARTINS PEDERIVA, Patrícia Lima  and  TRISTAO, Rosana Maria. Music and Cognition. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2006, vol.9, pp. 83-90. ISSN 1806-5821.

The neural organization for music and the human musical behavior has been white of innumerable quarrels in the areas of neurosciences and musical art. It is perpetuated quarrel on the existence or of neural modules for music or if this function it is shared with others areas. This article traces a view on these quarrels and presents the results of some of the most evident studies in this area that have been published in the last few decades and search to understand the ways for which the human brain processes, stores and produces music, concluding with one brief comparison between music and speach. Such studies have as base, mainly, the advances in the cognitive neuroscience, that can assist in the clarification on the relation music-cognition and the role of the musical education at the cognitive development. © Ciências & Cognição 2006; Vol. 09: xxx-xxx.

Keywords : music; cognition; musical education; neuroscience..

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