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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peretz, Isabelle, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (478 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Oxford University Press Incorporated 2003
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume brings together an outstanding collection of international authorities - from the fields of music, neuroscience, psychology, and neurology - to describe the groundbreaking 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:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Part I The origins of music
- 1 Musical predispositions in infancy: an update
- 2 The quest for universals in temporal processing in music
- 3 Mechanisms of musical memory in infancy
- 4 Music, cognition, culture, and evolution
- 5 Is music an evolutionary adaptation?
- Part II The musical mind
- 6 The roots of musical variation in perceptual similarity and invariance
- 7 Tonal cognition
- 8 Learning and perceiving musical structures: further insights from artificial neural networks
- Part III The neurons of music
- 9 Neurobiology of harmony perception
- 10 Intracerebral evoked potentials in pitch perception reveal a functional asymmetry of human auditory cortex
- 11 The neural processing of complex sounds
- Part IV Musical brain substrates
- 12 Music and the neurologist: a historical perspective
- 13 Brain specialization for music: new evidence from congenital amusia
- 14 Cerebral substrates for musical temporal processes
- 15 Cerebral substrates of musical imagery
- 16 Neural specializations for tonal processing
- 17 Exploring the functional neuroanatomy of music performance, perception, and comprehension
- 18 Comparison between language and music
- 19 Musical sound processing: EEG and MEG evidence
- 20 Processing emotions induced by music
- 21 A new approach to the cognitive neuroscience of melody
- 22 How many music centres are in the brain?
- Part V Musical expertise/brain plasticity
- 23 Functional organization and plasticity of auditory cortex
- 24 The brain of musicians
- 25 Representational cortex in musicians
- 26 The brain that makes music and is changed by it
- 27 The sounds of poetry viewed as music
- 28 Does exposure to music have beneficial side effects?
- Colour plates.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4237-0001-5
- OCLC:
- 1058330076
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