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Tunes and talk: researchers find music and language are processed by the same brain systems
09-27-2007 · EurekAlert!Researchers have long debated whether or not language and music depend on common processes in the mind. Now, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found evidence that the processing of music and language do indeed depend on some of the same brain systems.
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