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Thread #64008   Message #1043879
Posted By: treewind
29-Oct-03 - 12:07 PM
Thread Name: Musician's brains different
Subject: RE: Musician's brains different
Language is learnt. Musicians listening to music have learned a whole range of mental models and images to process while they are listening, which is just like a language.

Similarly I would expect that you'd get 'language centre' responses in anyone listing to speech in their own language, but far less response in that area if the language was a foreign one that they didn't understand.

Anahata