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Talk of the tone

Nature volume 453, pages 726–727 (2008)Cite this article

To appreciate how our species makes sense of sound we must study the brain's response to a wide variety of music, languages and musical languages, urges Aniruddh D. Patel.

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  1. Aniruddh D. Patel is Esther J. Burnham senior fellow in theoretical neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego, California 92121, USA. He is author of Music, Language, and the Brain (Oxford University Press — see Nature 452, 695–696; 2008 for a review).,

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Patel, A. Talk of the tone. Nature 453, 726–727 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453726a

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