“…Though musical processing has customarily been associated with the right hemisphere, and language with the left (e.g., Tervaniemi et al, 2000; Zatorre, Evans, Meyer, & Gjedde, 1992), contemporary accounts posit that neural mechanisms are not as clearly defined as traditionally assumed, and that listening to both music and speech activates multiple and overlapping areas associated with multi-sensory perception (Altenmuller, 2001; Baeck, 2002; Kuhl & Damasio, in press). In approaching this topic, two main questions have been investigated in adults: (1) are the “tune” and “text” of a song stored and processed independently, or in an integrated manner (see Schön, Gordon, & Besson, 2005)?…”