Given the universality of music across cultures, scientists have long suspected that the brain had a special “music room”—an area devoted to detecting and understanding music. But until recently, this music room had proved elusive. Now, using a novel brain imaging approach, researchers at MIT have discovered neural pathways that respond to music of any kind, but not to other sounds.

 

All details on this article of the New York times: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/science/new-ways-into-the-brains-music-room.html?_r=1

基於音樂的跨文化共通性,科學家們一直都懷疑大腦內有一個特別的「音樂室」,一個用來體驗和理解音樂的特定區域。但直到不久以前,大家還未能確定音樂室的存在。現在,通過運用最新的腦成像技術,麻省理工學院的研究人員發現了這些神經通道,它們對任何音樂形式都會有反應,而對其他聲音卻沒有反應。

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