If you have an hour or so to spare, I'd really like to recommend this lecture to you all. We've had some interesting discussions on this board about music, language, and cognitive sciences, so I hope that it is not too out of place. It's about the interactions in the brain between language and music. Enjoy!

Music and language lecture

Link bookmarked! Thanks.

Thank you for this, it's very interesting .

Not sure I follow how he comes to all of his conclusions, but it's made me want to go back to certain chapters in "music and the brain" too: I seem to remember there was a lot on the effects of brain injury on musical function in that, and there are other books discussing the way injury also affects linguistic function. I did identify correctly the French vs English composers, (neither composer in question being in the slightest way favourites, so I don't know their styles well enough) - but from mood more so than rhythm. (Elgar sounds pompous, Debussy a bit airy-fairy... ......)

*runs*

Keep 'em coming, freda_bloogs!!!

I made the mistake of starting to watch this when I had much more urgent things to do and just couldn't tear myself away... Better than the telly!

I just came across this interesting article on musical memory and memory loss. It's not really on topic but we've got bits and pieces all over the place on cognitive "stuff" (the brain / music / languages) and I didn't really want to start a new thread.

On the subject of language and memory loss (dementia, rather), there's also Roseau's Bilingualism thread.

Nmmmmmm.....would you people PLEASE STOP posting interesting stuff!! I need to work on something else that is useful but not fascinating, and you keep posting things on areas that have a major fascination for me.
(attempts to bury herself in on-topic reading, secretly intending to come back and see what you are up to in a week or two!).