Music and lyrics: How the brain splits songs

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Are music and lyrics processed by different parts of the brain?
Subjects listened to either same tune, with different lyrics or same lyrics, different tune. fMRI determined that:� ��" the superior temporal sulcus (STS) � ��" was responding to the songs. In the middle of the STS, the lyrics and tune were being processed as a single signal. But in the anterior STS, only the lyrics seemed to be processed.

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