The ability to distinguish a question from a statement, or sarcasm from sincerity, often rests on these right-hemisphere lateralized, nonlinguistic cues, known collectively as prosody. It is natural to wonder whether music shows the opposite asymmetry, with processing located primarily on the right. There are many cases of individuals with brain damage to the left hemisphere who lost the power of speech, but retained their musical function, and vice versa. Cases like these suggest that music and speech, although they may share some neural circuits, cannot use completely overlapping neural
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