# s-brain: distinct cortical pathways for music and speech

<< for the first time, MIT neuroscientists have identified a neural population in the human auditory cortex that responds selectively to sounds that people typically categorize as music, but not to speech or other environmental sounds >>

http://bioengineer.org/music-in-the-brain/

Sam Norman-Haignere, Nancy G. Kanwisher, Josh H. McDermott. Distinct Cortical Pathways for Music and Speech Revealed by Hypothesis-Free Voxel Decomposition. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.11.035 |

http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(15)01071-5