Rhythm, Music, and the Brain: Scientific Foundations and Clinical Applications

ISBN-13: 9780415973700 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 266 str.

Michael Thaut

Opis

With the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience and its new tools of studying the human brain "live," music as a highly complex, temporally ordered and rule-based sensory language quickly became a fascinating topic of study. By studying the physiology and neurology of brain function in music, we can obtain a great deal of knowledge about the perception of complex auditory sound stimuli; time perception and rhythm processing; the differential processing of music and language of two aural communication systems; biological substrates of learning versus innate talent in the arts; and processing of higher cognitive functions related to temporality and emotion. The main goal of the book is to bring the knowledge in the arts and the sciences together and review systematically our current state of study about the brain and music, specifically in rhythm. This book will be of interest for the lay and professional reader in the sciences and arts as well as the professionals in the fields of neuroscientific research, medicine, and rehabilitation.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Structure of Rhythm; Chapter 2 Aesthetics and Psychobiology; Chapter 3 The Neural Dynamics of Rhythm; Chapter 4 Biomedical Research in Music; Chapter 5 Rhythm-driven Optimization of Motor Control, Gary P. Kenyon, Michael H. Thaut; Chapter 6 Music in Therapy and Medicine; Chapter 7 Neurologic Music Therapy in Sensorimotor Rehabilitation; Chapter 8 Neurologic Music Therapy in Speech and Language Rehabilitation; Chapter 9 Neurologic Music Therapy in Cognitive Rehabilitation, James C. Gardiner;

O autorze

Michael H. Thaut