
OpinionSeptember 18, 2024
How Your Brain Tells Speech and Music Apart
Simple cues help people to distinguish song from the spoken word
Andrew Chang is a postdoctoral fellow at New York University, whose work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health’s Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award and by the Leon Levy Scholarships in Neuroscience. He studies the neural mechanisms of auditory perception and the ways people use music and speech to interact in the real world.
How Your Brain Tells Speech and Music Apart
Simple cues help people to distinguish song from the spoken word