tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181744309080861233.post3810942089381850402..comments2024-01-12T00:48:55.192-08:00Comments on Music and Brain Blog at University of Toronto: The Perception of Rhythm: Localized of Bilateral?Lee Bartelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06727468225852676801noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7181744309080861233.post-41603143311103196152015-04-22T11:44:07.202-07:002015-04-22T11:44:07.202-07:00Dear Will, I know this is an old post, but I wonde...Dear Will, I know this is an old post, but I wonder if you could comment on Jourdain's notion that rhythm is preferentially lateralized in the left hemisphere and melody in the right. This seems, prima facie, very simplistic to me, and perhaps wrong altogether in one key aspect: namely that melody and rhythm are inextricably linked. If you change the temporal pattern of a sequence of musical tones, you transform the perceived melody into a different one altogether, or even disintegrate it into a sequence that cannot hang together as a perceived melody.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09866505114152518469noreply@blogger.com