Appendix 3.03 Survey of The Neurosciences and Music III
Conference 2008
Disorders and Plasticity
1
The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity
. Conference
June 25
-28, 2008
at McGill University
, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
A survey of paper
s in
the conference proceedings:
Dalla Bella, S. et al. (eds.,
2009)
The Neurosciences and Music II
I.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume
1169.
Contents:
Number of papers
Part I. Rhythms in the Brain: Basic Science and Clinical Perspectives
9
(1-9)
Part II. Normal and Impaired Singing
6
(10
-15)
Part III. M
usic Training and Induced Cortical Plasticity
15
(16
-30)
Part IV. Musical Memory: Music is Memory
12
(31
-42)
Part V. Emotions and Music: Normal and Disordered Development
13
(43
-55)
Part VI. Listening to and Making Music Facilitates Brain Recovery Processes
10
(56
-65)
Part VII. Music, Language, and Motor Programming: A Common Neural Organization?
11
(66
-76)
Part VIII. New Directions: Cochlear Implants
3
(77
-79)
The survey presents, in brief and schematic form, for each
paper
:
Abbreviated
title
as indica
ted in the conference proceedings, with page numbers.
Category of investigation.
Aim of the study
Musical
m
aterial
applied as stimuli in the study. Cultural references of the Musical material.
Technology and Procedure
Main focus of interest
Conclusion
A number of notable papers are marked with an asterisk *. Some notable findings are written in
bold type.
Recurrent abbreviations:
PET: Positron emission tomography.
fMRI: functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
EEG: Ele
ctroencephalograph
y. MEG: Magnetoencephalography.
CR: Cultural reference.
SNI: Source not indi
ated.