Table 1.

Overview of ten representative music-language interference studies.

References	Primary outcome
BEHAVIOR
Fedorenko et al., 2009	Melodic unexpectancy worsens the comprehension of syntactically complex sentences, volume unexpectancy without effect
Slevc et al., 2009	Harmonic unexpectancy slows the resolution of syntactic ambiguities but not of semantically unexpected words; timbre without effect
Hoch et al., 2011	Harmonic unexpectancy slows the word judgment time of syntactically unexpected words, but not of semantically unexpected words
Perruchet and Poulin-Charronnat, 2013	Harmonic unexpectancy slows the resolution of semantic ambiguities but not of semantically unexpected words
Fiveash and Pammer, 2014	Harmonic unexpectancy worsens sentence recall but not word list recall; timbral unexpectancy without effect
ELECTRO ENCEPHALOGRAPHY (EEG)
Besson et al., 1998	Melodic unexpectancy does not affect the event-related potential (ERP) to a semantic manipulation (N400)
Koelsch et al., 2005	Harmonic unexpectancy affects the syntax-related left anterior negativity (LAN) but not the N400
Steinbeis and Koelsch, 2008b	Harmonic unexpectancy affects the LAN but not the N400; language syntactic violations affect the harmony-related early right anterior negativity (ERAN) while language semantic anomalies affect the harmony-related N500
Carrus et al., 2011	Harmonic unexpectancy affects the oscillatory response to language syntax (delta-theta bands), but not vice versa; no interaction with semantics
Carrus et al., 2013	Melodic unexpectancy affects the LAN but not the N400

Behavioral and electrophysiological interference studies offer compelling evidence for shared musico-linguistic resources but were not discussed by Peretz et al. (2015). For illustration, we list five behavioral and five electro-encephalographical studies.