Does exposure to music have beneficial side effects? / Musical predispositions in infancy, an update / E. Glenn Schellenberg. Quest for universals in temporal processing in music / Carolyn Drake, Daisy Bertrand -- Mechanism of musical memory in infancy / Jenny R. Saffran -- Music, cognition, culture, and evolution / Ian Cross -- Is music an evolutionary adaptation? / David Huron -- Musical mind. Roots of musical variation in perceptual similarity and invariance / Stephen McAdams, Daniel Matzkin -- Tonal cognition / Carol L. Krumhansl, Petri Toiviainen -- Learning and perceiving musical structures, further insights from artificial neural networks / Barbara Tillmann, Jamshed J. Bharucha, Emmanuel Bigand -- Neurons of music. Neurobiology of harmony perception / Mark Jude Tramo ... [et al.] -- Intracerebral evoked potentials in pitch perception reveal a functional asymmetry of human auditory cortex / Catherine Liégeois-Chauvel ... [et al.] -- Neural processing of complex sounds / Timothy D. Griffiths -- Musical brain substrates. Music and the neurologist, a historical perspective / John C.M. Brust -- Brain specialization for music, new evidence from congenital amusia / Isabelle Peretz -- Cerebral substrates for musical temporal processes / Séverine Samson, Nathalie Ehrlé -- Cerebral substrates of musical imagery / Andrea R. Halpern -- Neural specializations for tonal processing / Robert J. Zatorre -- Exploring the functional neuroanatomy of music performance, perception, and comprehension / Lawrence M. Parsons -- Comparison between language and music / Mireille Besson, Daniele Schön -- Musical sound processing, EEG and MEG evidence / Mari Tervaniemi -- Processing emotions induced by music / L.J. Trainor, L.A. Schmidt -- New approach to the cognitive neuroscience of melody / Aniruddh D. Patel -- How many music centres are in the brain? / Eckart O. Altenmüller -- Musical expertise/brain plasticity. Functional organization and plasticity of auditory cortex / Josef P. Rauschecker -- Brain of musicians / Gottfried Schlaug -- Representational cortex in musicians / C. Pantev ... [et al.] -- Brain that makes music and is changed by it / Alvaro Pascual-Leone -- Relation of music to other cognitive domains. Sounds of poetry viewed as music / Fred Lerdahl -- Does exposure to music have beneficial side effects? / E. Glenn Schellenberg.
Summary:
Music offers a unique opportunity to better understand the organization of the human brain. Like language, music exists in all human societies. Like language, music is a complex, rule-governed activity that seems specific to humans, and associated with a specific brain architecture. Yet unlike most other high level functions of the human brain, and unlike language, music is a skil at which only a minority of people become proficient. The study of music as a major brain function has for some time been relatively neglected. Just recently, however, we have witnessed an explosion in research activities on music perception and performance that correlates in the human brain. This volume brings together an outstanding collection of international authorities, from the fields of music, neuroscience, psychology, and neurology, to describe the amazing advances being made in understanding the complex relationship between music and the brain.
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