Significance of Broca's area and ventral premotor cortex for music-syntactic processing

This paper suggests that a cortical network comprising inferior frontolateral cortex [IFLC, corresponding to Brodmann's area (BA),44], ventrolateral premotor cortex (vIPMC), and anterior superior temporal gyrus (aSTG) is involved in. the processing of musical structure. This network presumably calculates harmonic relations between a chord and a preceding harmonic sequence, is involved in the detection of music-structural irregularities, and organizes fast short-term predictions of upcoming musical events.