Blogs for American Association For The Advancement Of Science

Jun 29, 2010 -- 5:00 am

Researchers presented findings at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in San Diego this past February substantiating the mind's complex relationship between music and language. According to Gottfried Schlaug, M.D., Ph.D., a neurology professor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, stroke patients who have lost language facility can sing words they are incapable of speaking.