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This document is a review of the relationship between speech and music, often referred to as the "speech-music continuum". The author, Elizabeth Phillips, aims to integrate findings from various disciplines to understand this relationship better.
The document first defines a concept by Beaty and colleagues (2021) that suggests in improvisation, elements that are more frequent, shorter, recent, or more salient tend to come before more complex or unusual elements. This bias helps in planning upcoming elements while producing the current one.
The relationship between speech and music is often seen as "mysterious", but the author believes that a deeper investigation into the role of songs, which are a common element between speech and music, could provide clarity.
The document also discusses the measurement of complex soundwaves' harmonics, also known as its spectrum. The spectrum represents the power of various harmonics of the sound and is a good indicator of timbre, while the envelope represents the sound's amplitude over time, indicating energy and loudness modulations.
The author plans to present theories about the evolution of the speech-music continuum, discuss the structural differences that characterize it, summarize the brain's procedural differences when presented with stimuli from various points on the continuum, and discuss how that processing can be affected by context.
The document also mentions that there is a preferential activation for the human voice in both production and perception, suggesting a unique relationship between our cognitive processes and the human voice.
In simple terms, this document is trying to understand the relationship between speech and music, how they evolved, how they are different, and how our brain processes them. This could potentially help us understand human cognition better and could have implications in fields like music therapy, language learning, and cognitive neuroscience.