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    A Musical Brain May Help Us Understand Language And Appreciate Tchaikovsky

    Compared with monkeys, humans have a brain that is extremely sensitive to a sound's pitch. And that may reflect our exposure to speech and music.
    by Jon Hamilton Jun 10, 2019 2 minutes
    An MRI scan of a person listening to music shows brain areas that respond. (This scan wasn't part of the research comparing humans and monkeys.)

    What sounds like music to us may just be noise to a macaque monkey.

    That's because a monkey's brain appears to lack critical circuits that are highly sensitive to a sound's pitch, a team reported Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

    The finding suggests that humans may have developed brain

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