We examine the evidence that speech and musical sounds exploit different acoustic cues:
speech is highly dependent on rapidly changing broadband sounds, whereas tonal patterns …

Music performance is both a natural human activity, present in all societies, and one of the
most complex and demanding cognitive challenges that the human mind can undertake. …

Human brain imaging has identified structural changes in gray and white matter that occur
with learning. However, ascribing imaging measures to underlying cellular and molecular …

We used positron emission tomography to study neural mechanisms underlying intensely
pleasant emotional responses to music. Cerebral blood flow changes were measured in …

The human voice contains in its acoustic structure a wealth of information on the speaker’s
identity and emotional state which we perceive with remarkable ease and accuracy. 1– 3 …

… Blood, AJ & Zatorre, RJ Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with … Salimpoor,
VN, Benovoy, M., Longo, G., Cooperstock, JR & Zatorre, RJ The rewarding … Robert J Zatorre …

… Further converging evidence comes from a study (RJ Zatorre, unpublished observations)
of a patient with surgical excision of a tumor in Broca's area who was tested with exactly the …

We used positron emission tomography to examine the response of human auditory cortex
to spectral and temporal variation. Volunteers listened to sequences derived from a standard …

Neural correlates of the often-powerful emotional responses to music are poorly understood.
Here we used positron emission tomography to examine cerebral blood flow (CBF) …

We performed successive H 2 15 O-PET scans on volunteers as they ate chocolate to beyond
satiety. Thus, the sensory stimulus and act (eating) were held constant while the reward …