AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -“Professional musicians use the occipital cortex, which is the visual cortex, when they listen to music, while laypersons, like me, use the temporal lobe-the auditory and language center.

Detailed explanation-2: -The auditory cortex in the temporal lobe is key for hearing and understanding speech, but a range of other structures in the temporal lobe help you understand and give meaning to language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Signals from the right ear travel to the auditory cortex located in the temporal lobe on the left side of the brain. Signals from the left ear travel to the right auditory cortex. The auditory cortices sort, process, interpret and file information about the sound.

Detailed explanation-4: -The temporal lobe contains the primary auditory cortex, which receives auditory information from the ears and secondary areas, and processes the information so we understand what we’re hearing (e.g. words, laughing, a baby crying).

Detailed explanation-5: -The recognition and understanding of pitch and tone are mainly handled by the auditory cortex. This part of the brain also does a lot of the work to analyze a song’s melody and harmony. Some research shows that the cerebellum and prefrontal cortex contribute, too.