As Kiki Dee (and all those who covered her) sang, I got the music in me. We all have it in us, and now scientists have pinpointed exactly where we keep it. No big surprise that it's in the auditory cortex. That just makes sense. The interesting new finding is that, while the part of our brain that reacts to music is in the same area as the part that reacts to any sound, it uses a totally different neural pathway. It's different from the speech pathway and deaf to dogs barking or cars starting up. (Of course, as one might expect, there's some overlap for a song with lyrics.) As intriguing as this finding is the innovative method via which it was discovered. The MIT researchers' mathematical analysis of brain scans could be used to find other areas of cortical specialization:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2016/02/08/mit-researchers-find-new-ways-into-brain-music-room/2cTTGjDyujgl3tnOvjDQXM/story.html?p1=Article_Related_Box_Article_More
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