Overview
Recent advances in brain research have revealed behavioral connections between musical rhythm and linguistic syntax. Using a meta-analysis of neuroimaging data, researchers found that musical rhythm is generated bilaterally in the sensorimotor network. In contrast, syntax is constructed mostly in the left half of this region.![](https://images.ctfassets.net/hg121nxz9t5c/6NiSM5DGzWVP7LylBLn4zv/fd74fae8f23a3feef1d64980c2de373f/Lee_2020_Shared_neural_Fig_1.png?f=faces&q=15&fit=fill&w=560&h=492)
Figure 1 shows (A) an example of a music sequence, (B) examples of the syntax used repetitively in the paper with the three stages: merge, movement, and reanalysis.