title: Model of music cognition and amusia.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The study of the neural networks involved in music processing has received less attention than work researching the brain's language networks. For the last two decades there has been a growing interest in discovering the functional mechanisms of the musical brain and understanding those disorders in which brain regions linked with perception and production of music are damaged.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Congenital and acquired musical deficits in their various forms (perception, execution, music-memory) are grouped together under the generic term amusia. In this selective review we present the "cutting edge" studies on the cognitive and neural processes implicated in music and the various forms of amusia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Musical processing requires a large cortico-subcortical network which is distributed throughout both cerebral hemispheres and the cerebellum. The analysis of healthy subjects using functional neuroimaging and examination of selective deficits (e.g., tone, rhythm, timbre, melodic contours) in patients will improve our knowledge of the mechanisms involved in musical processing and the latter's relationship with other cognitive processes.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Neurología Cognitiva y Afasias, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias (CIMES), Málaga, España. Nagcasares@gmail.com
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: García-Casares
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Berthier Torres
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Froudist Walsh
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: González-Santos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology*; D009147:Music Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation