Review of Aniruddh D. Patel, Music, Language and the Brain

Abstract

Written by a first-rate scientist, Music, Language and the Brain is the most comprehensive and clear treatment of the sometimes patchwork body of knowledge exploring music and language comparisons within music psychology and neuroscience. Patel’s book makes an immediate and important contribution to the vast array of literature in this area by bringing it together in a single source. It is all the more impressive because of the author’s ability to present this complex web of scholarship in a very logical and highly readable style.