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The "consonance effect" and the hemispheres: a study on a split-brain patient.

Giulia Prete1, Mara Fabri, Nicoletta Foschi

  • 1a Department of Neuroscience and Imaging , 'G. d'Annunzio' University of Chieti-Pescara , Chieti , Italy.

Laterality
|September 27, 2014
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Summary

Split-brain patients may lose the typical "consonance effect" in music perception. While the right hemisphere usually processes pleasant consonance, the left hemisphere in split-brain patients shows some ability to distinguish consonant and dissonant chords.

Keywords:
ConsonanceCorpus callosumHemispheresPleasantnessSplit-brain

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