A Musical Brain May Help Us Understand Language And Appreciate Tchaikovsky
Compared with monkeys, humans have a brain that is extremely sensitive to a sound's pitch. And that may reflect our exposure to speech and music.
What sounds like music to us may just be noise to a macaque monkey.
That's because a monkey's brain appears to lack critical circuits that are highly sensitive to a sound's pitch, a team reported Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
The finding suggests that humans may have developed brain
