TY - JOUR
AU - Perry, David W.
AB - LANGUAGE AND SPEECH, 1994,37(1), 61-66 BOOK REVIEWS bf1isic, Latrgriage, Speech, mid Brairi. Edited by J. Sundberg, L. Nord, and R. Carlson. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan Press, 1991.468 pp. $90.00 Reviewed by ROBERT J. ZATORRE* AND DAVID W. PERRY* McGill University This book represents the proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Center Foundation, Stockholm, held in September 1990. The aim of the organizers was to bring together investigators from many diverse disciplines working on the “two main forms of systematic interhuman communication which use acoustic signals”, i.e., speech and music. The participants were invited to give reviews of their fields of specialization for those from different domains, and the meeting was explicitly set up to foster interdiscipli- nary interaction. The ultimate success or failure of this approach depends in large part on the willingness and ability of the individual participants to communicate with o:.e another, and on the state of development of the field itself as well. In a number of instances, it seems clear that opportunities for fruitful interaction exist, and the appearance of this book may enhance such interactions. In many other instances, however, there is a failure of cross- disciplinary communication. Sometimes this is attributable 
TI - Music, Language, Speech, and Brain.
JF - Language and Speech
DO - 10.1177/002383099403700104
DA - 1994-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/music-language-speech-and-brain-RI1t4GEhf0
SP - 61
EP - 66
VL - 37
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -