The cognitive neuroscience of music / edited by Isabelle Peretz and Robert Zattore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peretz, Isabelle.

Zatorre, Robert J.

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Music--Physiological aspects.

Musical perception.

Physical Description:

xiii, 452 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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. Extensive musical knowledge is acquired by the vast majority of people in an implicit fashion, but unlike language, only a minority of people become proficient at the motor skills necessary for musical performance. 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.

Contents:

1. Musical predispositions in infancy: an update / Sandra E. Trehub

2. The quest for universals in temporal processing in music / Carolyn Drake and Daisy Bertrand

3. Mechanism of musical memory in infancy / Jenny R. Saffran

4. Music, cognition, culture, and evolution / Ian Cross

5. Is music an evolutionary adaptation? / David Huron

6. The roots of musical variation in perceptual similarity and invariance / Stephen McAdams and Daniel Matzkin

7. Tonal cognition / Carol L. Krumhansl and Petri Toiviainen

8. Learning and perceiving musical structures: further insights from artificial neural networks / Barbara Tillmann, Jamshed J. Bharucha, and Emmanuel Bigand

9. Neurobiology of harmony perception / Mark Jude Tramo ... [et al.]

10. Intracerebral evoked potentials in pitch perception reveal a functional asymmetry of human auditory cortex / Catherine Liégeois-Chauvel ... [et al.]

11. The neural processing of complex sounds / Timothy D. Griffiths

12. Music and the neurologist: a historical perspective / John C.M. Brust

13. Brain specialization for music: new evidence from congenital amusia / Isabelle Peretz

14. Cerebral substrates for musical temporal processes / Séverine Samson and Nathalie Ehrlé

15. Cerebral substrates of musical imagery / Andrea R. Halpern

16. Neural specializations for tonal processing / Robert J. Zatorre

17. Exploring the functional neuroanatomy of music performance, perception, and comprehension / Lawrence M. Parsons

18. Comparison between language and music / Mireille Besson and Daniele Schön

19. Musical sound processing: EEG and MEG evidence / Mari Tervaniemi

20. Processing emotions induced by music / L.J. Trainor and L.A. Schmidt

21. A new approach to the cognitive neuroscience of melody / Aniruddh D. Patel

22. How many music centres are in the brain? / Eckart O. Altenmüller

23. Functional organization and plasticity of auditory cortex / Josef P. Rauschecker

24. The brain of musicians / Gottfried Schlaug

25. Representational cortex in musicians / C. Pantev ... [et al.]

The brain that makes music and is changed by it / Alvaro Pascual-Leone

27. The sounds of poetry viewed as music / Fred Lerdahl

28. Does exposure to music have beneficial side effects? / E. Glenn Schellenberg.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

0198525192

0198525206

OCLC:

51668470