Status Updates From From Perception to Pleasure...

Reading this is making Dr. Zatorre’s lab meetings so much easier to understand! Now I can nod along and go “hmmm… yes, yes. Quite right.”

Hemispheric specialization with language and music isn’t just because of a separation of these two categories, it’s largely due to hemispheric differences in processing capabilities of spectral/temporal domains!

This is a slow read for sure, but it’s good for me, like broccoli. I really like the small section on musical hallucinations and earworms!! New models have proposed that musical hallucinations are the result of damage propagating through the auditory circuit, removing the corrective input to descending predictions - higher order areas run awry with their predictions, resulting in auditory hallucinations!