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Shared Neural Resources Research Cluster

 

Increasing evidence from neuroimaging studies suggest an overlap of neuronal regions involved in the processing of language and music, particularly in structural or “syntactic” processing. These observations are summarized in the so called “shared neuronal resources” hypotheses and challenges traditionally held views of music and language as separate modules, occupying non-overlapping brain regions.

This “shared neuronal resources” hypotheses build the core idea around which this shared neuronal resources cluster (SNR-Cluster) was formed by various groups consisting of physicians, biologists, linguists, physicists, mathematics and phychologists. Together we aim to characterize brain regions involved in language and music using various imaging methods like e.g. fMRI with the goal of disentangling the complex pattern of overlapping neuronal areas.

 

 

 
Univ.Prof.Dr.med. Roland Beisteiner

Study Group Clinical fMRI
Department of Neurology
Medical University of Vienna
Waehringer Gürtel 18-20 / BT86
A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Email: Roland.Beisteiner AT meduniwien.ac.at


Univ.Prof. William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch, PhD

Head of Department of Cognitive Biology
University of Vienna
Althanstrasse 14
A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Email: Tecumseh.Fitch AT univie.ac.at
Webpage: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/tecumseh.fitch

Department of Cognitive Biology
University of Vienna
Althanstrasse 14
1090 Vienna
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