Cerebral Dominance in Musicians and Nonmusicians
- 9 August 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 185 (4150), 537-539
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.185.4150.537
Abstract
Musically experienced listeners recognize simple melodies better in the right ear than the left, while the reverse is true for naive listeners. Hence, contrary to previous reports, music perception supports the hypothesis that the left hemisphere is dominant for analytic processing and the right hemisphere for holistic processing.Keywords
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