[AUDITORY] "Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language" - call for contributions to Special Issue in Brain Sciences

[Daniela Sammler <sammler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear colleagues,

It is our pleasure to draw your attention to a Special Issue on "Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language" that we are guest-editing in Brain Sciences. 

Topic: Neurocomparative music and language research has seen major advances over the past two decades: The Shared Syntactic Integration Resource Hypothesis (SSIRH) has now come of age, fully matured, as has the Modularity of Music Processing, and yet research on the relationship between music and language has never lost its appeal. On the contrary, the field has left no stone unturned to explore neurofunctional similarities of syntax and rhythm, pitch and meaning, their emotional and communicative power, in ontogeny and phylogeny. Research on perceptual and cognitive transfer between domains has recognized the signs of times by exploring learning and cognitive reserve in aging and the benefits of neural entrainment, amongst others. Methods have been refined and the explanatory value of neural overlap has been questioned, all to draw a more nuanced picture on what is shared and what is not, and what this knowledge earns practitioners. The goal of this Special Issue is to take a step back and showcase persistent neural analogies between musical and linguistic information processing and their entwined organization in human cognition, to scrutinize the limits of neural overlap and sharing, and to conclude on the applicability of the combined knowledge in pedagogy and therapy.

Submission deadline ist 5/Feb/2019. For more information, please follow this link or drop us an email: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/brainsci/special_issues/Neurocognition_Music_and_Language

Best regards,
Daniela Sammler 
Stefan Elmer

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Dr Daniela SAMMLER
Research Group Leader
Otto Hahn Group "Neural Bases of Intonation in Speech and Music"
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Stephanstr. 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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