Subject: [AUDITORY] "Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language" - call for contributions to Special Issue in Brain Sciences From: Daniela Sammler <sammler@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:18:45 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear colleagues, It is our pleasure to draw your attention to a Special Issue on "Advances i= n the Neurocognition of Music and Language" that we are guest-editing in Br= ain Sciences.=20 Topic: Neurocomparative music and language research has seen major advances= over the past two decades: The Shared Syntactic Integration Resource Hypot= hesis (SSIRH) has now come of age, fully matured, as has the Modularity of = Music Processing, and yet research on the relationship between music and la= nguage has never lost its appeal. On the contrary, the field has left no st= one 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 h= as recognized the signs of times by exploring learning and cognitive reserv= e in aging and the benefits of neural entrainment, amongst others. Methods = have been refined and the explanatory value of neural overlap has been ques= tioned, all to draw a more nuanced picture on what is shared and what is no= t, and what this knowledge earns practitioners. The goal of this Special Is= sue is to take a step back and showcase persistent neural analogies between= musical and linguistic information processing and their entwined organizat= ion in human cognition, to scrutinize the limits of neural overlap and shar= ing, and to conclude on the applicability of the combined knowledge in peda= gogy and therapy. Submission deadline ist 5/Feb/2019. For more information, please follow thi= s link or drop us an email: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/brainsci/special_is= sues/Neurocognition_Music_and_Language Best regards, Daniela Sammler=20 Stefan Elmer --=20 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 phone: +49 341 9940 2679 fax: +49 341 9940 2204