The Neurosciences and Music IV : Learning and Memory / issue editors, Katie Overy, Isabelle Peretz, Robert J. Zatorre, Luisa Lopez and Maria Majno.

Neurosciences and Music four

Neurosciences and Music 4

Learning and Memory

Boston, Massachusetts : Published by Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2012.

367 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Introduction to The Neurosciences and Music IV: Learning and Memory -- Auditory brain development in premature infants : the importance of early experience -- Musical experience, plasticity, and maturation : issues in measuring developmental change using EEG and MEG -- Behavioral methods in infancy : pitfalls of single measures -- Pediatric neuroimaging in early childhood and infancy : challenges and practical guidelines -- Education through music : the model of the Musikkindergarten Berlin -- From the model of El Sistema in Venezuela to current applications : learning and integration through collective music education -- Making music in a group : synchronization and shared experience -- Neuroscience and "real world" practice : music as a therapeutic resource for children in zones of conflict -- Tempo mediates the involvement of motor areas in beat perception -- Without it no music : beat induction as a fundamental musical trait -- Effects of perceptual experience on children's and adults' perception of unfamiliar rhythms -- Cognitive factors shape brain networks for auditory skills : spotlight on auditory working memory -- Cognitive and methodological considerations on the effects of musical expertise on speech segmentation -- Musical expertise induces neuroplasticity of the planum temporale -- The OPERA hypothesis : assumptions and clarifications -- Becoming musically enculturated : effects of music classes for infants on brain and behavior -- Practiced musical style shapes auditory skills -- Expertise in folk music alters the brain processing of Western harmony -- ERP responses to cross-cultural melodic expectancy violations -- Effects of mono- and bicultural experiences on auditory perception -- A sensitive period for musical training : contributions of age of onset and cognitive abilities -- Musical training and the role of auditory feedback during performance -- The multisensory brain and its ability to learn music -- Sensorimotor mechanisms in music performance : actions that go partially wrong -- Error monitoring is altered in musician's dystonia : evidence from ERP-based studies -- Dynamic aspects of musical imagery -- Mental imagery in music performance : underlying mechanisms and potential benefits -- Acuity of mental representations of pitch -- Beyond auditory cortex : working with musical thoughts -- Working memory for speech and music -- When right is all that is left : plasticity of right-hemisphere tracts in a young aphasic patient -- The dynamic audio-motor system in pianists -- Tinnitus : the dark side of the auditory cortex plasticity -- Musician's cramp as manifestation of maladaptive brain plasticity : arguments from instrumental differences -- Music listening after stroke : beneficial effects and potential neural mechanisms -- The involvement of audio-motor coupling in the music-supported therapy applied to stroke patients -- Changes in neuromagnetic beta-band oscillation after music-supported stroke rehabilitation -- Making music after stroke : using musical activities to enhance arm function -- Effective music therapy techniques in the treatment of nonfluent aphasia -- Music : a unique window into the world of autism -- Auditory-musical processing in autism spectrum disorders : a review of behavioral and brain imaging studies -- Atypical hemispheric asymmetry in the arcuate fasciculus of completely nonverbal children with autism -- Memory disorders and vocal performance -- Is there potential for learning in amusia? a study of the effect of singing intervention in congenital amusia -- Impaired learning of event frequencies in tone deafness -- Statistical learning of speech, not music, in congenital amusia.

Includes bibliographical references.