<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Patel, AD</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Using music to study the evolution of cognitive mechanisms relevant to language.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Psychon Bull Rev</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jul 01</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/27368629</style></url></web-urls></urls><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1069-9384</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;This article argues that music can be used in cross-species research to study the evolution of cognitive mechanisms relevant to spoken language. This is because music and language share certain cognitive processing mechanisms and because music offers specific advantages for cross-species research. Music has relatively simple building blocks (tones without semantic properties), yet these building blocks are combined into rich hierarchical structures that engage complex cognitive processing. I illustrate this point with regard to the processing of musical harmonic structure. Because the processing of musical harmonic structure has been shown to interact with linguistic syntactic processing in humans, it is of interest to know if other species can acquire implicit knowledge of harmonic structure through extended exposure to music during development (vs. through explicit training). I suggest that domestic dogs would be a good species to study in addressing this question.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">27368629</style></accession-num><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA. a.patel@tufts.edu.</style></auth-address></record></records></xml>