The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198525206 ISBN 13: 9780198525202

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2003

Riassunto

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 skill 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 and their 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. Aimed at psychologists and neuroscientists, this is a book that will lay the foundations for a cognitive neuroscience of music.

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Recensione:

There are few things more exciting than an entirely new scientific field, a new attempt to understand another aspect of our human existence - now it's music's turn. Here is a collection of papers from leaders in the discipline, trying to tease apart exactly what goes on inside the brain when it experiences music. It is a bafflingly huge subject and the editors should be applauded for bringing so much expertise to a single tome... The book is a mixed bag, some chapters are far more accessible than others to the general neuroscientist - but this is a minor criticism. Each chapter of the book plays like a section of a small orchestra, contributing to the magnificent whole. (The Lancet Neurology)

Contenuti:

• Preface
• Part I: The origins of music
• 1: Sandra E. Trehub: Musical predisposition in infancy: an update
• 2: Carolyn Drake and Daisy Bertrand: The quest for universals in temporal processing in music
• 3: Jenny R. Saffran, Michael Loman, and Rachel Robertson: Mechanisms of musical memory in infancy
• 4: Ian Cross: Music, cognition, culture, and evolution
• 5: David Huron: Is music an evolutionary adaptation?
• Part II: The musical mind
• 6: Stephen McAdams and Daniel Matzkin: The roots of musical variation in perceptual similarity and invariance
• 7: Carol L. Krumhansl and Petri Toivainen: Tonal cognition
• 8: Barbara Tillmann, Jamshed J. Barucha, and Emmanuel Bigand: Learning and perceiving musical structures: further insights from artificial neural networks
• Part III: The neurons of music
• 9: Mark Tramo: Neurobiology of harmony perception
• 10: Catherine Liegeois-Chauvel, Kimberly Giraud, Jean-Michel Badier, Patrick Marquis, and Patrick Chauvel: Intracerebral evoked potentials in pitch perception reveal a functional asymmetry of human auditory cortex
• 11: Timothy D. Griffiths: The neural processing of complex sounds
• Part IV: Musical brain substrates
• 12: John C.M. Brust: Music and the neurologist: an historical perspective
• 13: Isabelle Peretz: Brain specialization for music: new evidence from congenital amusia
• 14: Severine Samson: Cerebral substrates for musical temporal processes
• 15: Andrea R. Halpern: Cerebral substrates of musical imagery
• 16: Robert J. Zatorre: Neural specializations for tonal processing
• 17: Lawrence M. Parsons: Exploring the functional neuroanatomy of music performance, perception, and comprehension
• 18: Mireille Besson and Daniele Schon: Comparison between language and music
• 19: Mari Tervaniemi: Musical sound processing: EEG and MEG evidence
• 20: Laurel Trainor: Frontal EEG responses as a function of affective musical features
• 21: Aniruddh D. Patel and Evan Balaban: Cortical dynamics and the perception of tone sequence structure
• 22: Eckart O. Altenmuller: How many music centres are in the brain
• Part V: Musical brain/brain plasticity
• 23: Joseph P. Rauschecker: Functional organization and plasticity of auditory cortex
• 24: Gottfried Schlaug and Chi Chen: The brain of musicians
• 25: C Pantev, A. Engelien, V. Candia, and T. Elbert: Representational cortex in musicians
• 26: Alvaro Pascual-Leone: The brain that makes music and is changed by it
• Part VI: Relation of music to other cognitive domains
• 27: Fred Lerdahl: The sounds of poetry viewed as music
• 28: Glenn Shellenberg: Does exposure to music have beneficial side effects?

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0198525206
• ISBN 13: 9780198525202
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 466
• Redattore: Peretz Isabelle, Zatorre Robert J.