Decision Making Strategy and the Simultaneous Processing of Syntactic Dependencies in Language and Music.

ABSTRACT: Despite differences in their function and domain-specific elements, syntactic processing in music and language is believed to share cognitive resources. This study aims to investigate whether the simultaneous processing of language and music share the use of a common syntactic processor or more general attentional resources. To investigate this matter we tested musicians and non-musicians using visually presented sentences and aurally presented melodies containing syntactic local and long-distance dependencies. Accuracy rates and reaction times of participants' responses were collected. In both sentences and melodies, unexpected syntactic anomalies were introduced. This is the first study to address the processing of local and long-distance dependencies in language and music combined while

SUBMITTER: Roncaglia-Denissen MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5797648 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature