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Hidden Melodies: Discovering the music in our speech

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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Music and Human Speech Overlap in Our Brains

Dr. Ani Patel is a music psychologist at Tufts University. He's been studying how music and human speech overlap in our brains. When we speak with each other, we're using very complicated sound that has many frequencies. It's still not fully understood why our brains blur the line of music and speech but there are lots of ways to trick our minds.

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