Cited by 769Neuroscience and Music PerceptionNeurobiology of Language and BilingualismHemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience

Modularity of music processing

Peretz, Isabelle, Coltheart, Max·2003·Nature Neuroscience

Abstract

The music faculty is not a monolithic entity that a person either has or does not. Rather, it comprises a set of neurally isolable processing components, each having the potential to be specialized for music. Here we propose a functional architecture for music processing that captures the typical properties of modular organization. The model rests essentially on the analysis of music-related deficits in neurologically impaired individuals, but provides useful guidelines for exploring the music faculty in normal people, using methods such as neuroimaging.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1038/nn1083

Cites

44 of 44 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • The neuropsychological literature features striking dissociations between deficits in linguistic and nonlinguistic abilities.

    “The neuropsychological literature features striking dissociations between deficits in linguistic and nonlinguistic abilities (1–6).”

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Peretz, I., & Coltheart, M.
Affiliations
  • Université de Montréal (CA)
  • Macquarie University (AU)
Corresponding author
Peretz, Isabelle
Venue
Nature Neuroscience
Published
2003-06-25
Volume
6
Issue
7
Pages
688-691
ISSN
  • 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1726
OpenAlex
W2004125743
Cited by
769
References
44
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 46 · 2021: 40 · 2020: 47 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 35 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 36 · 2015: 45 · 2014: 32 · 2013: 49 · 2012: 50
FWCI
2.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
Keywords
music processing, modularity, functional architecture, music cognition, neural specialization, music faculty
MeSH terms
Auditory Perception, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Mental Processes, Models, Psychological, Music, Neural Pathways

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review