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55 Daniel Levitin - The Organized Mind

Inquiring Minds

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Music vs Language

The question about the primacy of music versus language is an interesting one and as I say we may never know. The neural circuits responsible for music appear to be phylogenetically older than the circuits responsible for language that is they are in older parts of the brain that evolved earlier. It's data music it's the devil's brew or is it the elixir of conversation well our thanks to Daniel Leviton author of the organized mind thinking straight in the age of information.

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