Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

Appendix 3.01 Survey of The Neurosciences and Music I

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Title, Category

Aim

Mus. material, Cultural ref.

Technology & Procedure

Main focus of interest

Conclusion

4. Vignolo (50-

57)

Music Agnosia and Auditory Agnosia Cat. 11: Deficit Cat. 13: Recognition

5. Peretz et al. (58-

75)

Varieties of Musical Disorders

Cat. 1: Pitch, melody

Cat. 4: Rhythm 6. Wieser (76-

94)

Music and the B

rain

Cat. 1: Melody

Cat. 2: Consonance / Dissonance

7. Avanzini (95

-102)

Musicogenic Seizures

Cat. 18: Bodily impact

Dissociations between the recognition of music and evironmental sounds in stroke patients

Assessing the Montreal Battery of Ev

aluation of

Amusia (MBEA) as a tool for evaluating

musical

abilities

Brain regions involved in pitch discrimination and musical pleasure Investigation of music

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induced epileptic seizures

1)

Montreal Battery of

Evaluation of Amusia (

MBEA

)

melodies:

Synthesized piano

tones

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2) Environmental Sound Recognition Test

CR: Western

MBEA:

Melodies in

synthesized piano tones. CR: Western

1)

Various tests, including

Seashore 1922:

Melodies,

Rhythm patterns

2) Mazzola’s music test (SNI).

CR: Western

Recorded and live music,

different styles and genres

CR: Not indicated

1) Same

-different recog

nition

test. 2) Point to picture showing the sound source. Plus Review

Same

-different recognition

test

. 160 neurologically intact
adults.

1. Rev

iew

2) EEG while listening Review of 67 observations. EEG, SPECT, fMRI

Recognition of sound in 40 patients with unilateral stroke, 20 right and 20 left hemisphere Diagnostic value of six tests: contour, interval, scale, rhythm, meter, memory

1) Brain regions and music

2) Consonance / dissonance processing Brain mechanisms responsible for seizures

Music agnosia and environmental sound agnosia are not unitary disorders, but compound disorders, consisting of different defects

MBEA

is reliable in

identifying disorders in music recognition in Western listeners

1) Right temporal lobe is crucial for pitch

processing 2)

Directly

recorded EEG from hippocampus reflects

the

consonance / dissonance dichotomy

Systems in temporal lobe invo

lved. Emotional aspects

play a role