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Vivaldi versus the Beatles.
维瓦尔迪对阵甲壳虫。
Both great. But your brain may be processing the musical information differently for each.
都很伟大。但是你的大脑也许对他们的音乐风格进行了不同的加工处理。
That's according to research in the journal NeuroImage.
这是根据《神经图像》杂志上的一篇研究文章得出的结论。
For the study, volunteers had their brains scanned by functional MRI as they listened to two musical medleys containing songs from different genres.
该研究让志愿者们在聆听两种不同风格音乐合集的时候对于大脑进行核磁共振扫描检测。
The scans identified brain regions that became active during listening.
结果显示在聆听时大脑区域会变得活跃。
One medley included four instrumental pieces and the other consisted of songs from the B side of Abbey Road.
一个合集里面包括了四种乐器的表演片段，而令一个则是甲壳虫的专辑《修道院路》的B面。
Computer algorithms were used to identify specific aspects of the music, which the researchers were able to match with specific, activated brain areas.
计算机辅助程序确认了这些音乐中的某些特质，而研究者们则将其与特殊的被激活的大脑功能区进行联系。
The researchers found that vocal and instrumental music get treated differently.
研究人员们发现声音以及乐器音乐信息是被不同的大脑区域加工处理。
While both hemispheres of the brain deal with musical features, the presence of lyrics shifts the processing of musical features to the left auditory cortex.
尽管大脑两个半球都能够处理音乐，但左半球负责听力的脑皮层更偏爱对有歌词的乐曲信息进行处理。
These results suggest that the brain's hemispheres are specialized for different kinds of sound processing.
这些结果表明大脑半球对不同声音信息的敏感度是不同的。
A finding revealed but what you might call instrumental analysis.
有了这样的结果日后你将如何解释仪器分析这门学科呢？
