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Science 13 December 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5601, pp. 2138 - 2139
DOI: 10.1126/science.1080006
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Mental Models and Musical Minds

Robert J. Zatorre and Carol L. Krumhansl

Many regions of the brain are involved in the processing of music. In their Perspective, Zatorre and Krumhansl discuss a brain imaging study of human subjects performing musical perception tasks that investigates the brain areas activated by tonal structures in Western music (Janata et al.).

R. J. Zatorre is at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada. E-mail: robert.zatorre{at}mcgill.ca C. L. Krumhansl is in the Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

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