title: Significance of Broca's area and ventral premotor cortex for music-syntactic processing.
abstract: This paper suggests that a cortical network comprising inferior frontolateral cortex [IFLC, corresponding to Brodmann's area (BA) 44], ventrolateral premotor cortex (vlPMC), and anterior superior temporal gyrus (aSTG) is involved in the processing of musical structure. This network presumably calculates harmonic relations between a chord and a preceding harmonic sequence, is involved in the detection of music-structural irregularities, and organizes fast short-term predictions of upcoming musical events.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. mail@stefan-koelsch.de
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Koelsch
mesh_terms: D004569:Electroencephalography; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D015225:Magnetoencephalography; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology*; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology