Music and the Brain

Abstract

"Music’s role in human experience has been a widely studied topic dating back to Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. These philosophers studied the influence and effects of music on an individual and a society as a whole; each knew that music was a powerful force but lacked the tools to understand why. Today, research in this field has the potential to clarify fundamental aspects of human brain function, from language and complex sequence processing to how the auditory and motor systems are joined together in beat perception and synchronization..."