Brain's Melody and Prose: How Music and Language Affect Different Regions - Neuroscience News

A recent study reveals how different brain areas are activated when processing music and language.

The study found "The posterior superior temporal gyrus (pSTG) was found to be crucial for both music perception and production as well as speech production, with pSTG activity modulated by syntactic complexity, and posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG) activity modulated by musical complexity."

This indicates that may attention may need to be paid during music, language (prosody), and lyric tasks.