Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

Appendix 3.04 Survey of

The Neurosciences and Music I

V

Conference 2011

Learning and Memory

Title, Category

Aim

Mus. Material, Cultural Ref.

Technology & Procedure

Main focus of interest

Conclusion

39. Takako Fujioka
    Multimodal functional cortical reorganization and
    its spatio

-temporal pa

ttern

after music-

supported stroke

rehabilitation

Cat. 11: Deficit Cat. 12: Recovery

40. Raymond MacDonald, van Wijc

k, Knox, Dodds,

Cassidy,

Alexander

Making music after stroke: using musical activities to enhance arm function

.

Cat. 11: Deficit Cat. 12:

Recovery

41. Concetta Tomaino Effective music therapy techniques in the treatment of non

-fluent aphasia

Cat. 11: Deficit Cat. 12: Therapy

We have examined the effects of music

-supported

motor rehabilitation on functional cortical reorgan

ization in our c

ase

• 
  

based study

This presentation will focus upon using musical

participation to enhance arm function recovery after stroke

This presentation will introduce working guidelines

for music therapy for aphasia

Over a 1-

month period we

probed somato

sensory,

motor, and auditory memory functions using various MEG mapping techni

ques before

and after the inter

vention of

music playing

Music technology, appropriate for use by people with different upper limb impairments after stroke

Different techni

ques

emphasizing rhythm, pitch,

memory, and vocal/oral motor components

dealing with

different symptoms

We hypothesize that multimodal neural activities underlying musical timing

processing encourage cortical reorganization

in wide are

as

of a brain damag

ed by stroke

Stroke is one of the most disabling long term conditions in the UK and loss of arm function is particularly common

Various benefits of singing have been identified: strengthened breathing and vocal ability, improved art

iculation and prosody of

speech

Post-

intervention

Improve

• 
  

ments in movement of the paretic hand as well as massive multimodal shifts from abnormal to norma

l

cortical response patterns

in

somatotopic maps and auditory evoked responses

Music technology can be utilised to develop creative

activities that are enjoyable and enhance the

rehabilitation process

The efficacy of each component is enhanced or diminished by the choice of music and the way it is interactively delivered

Symposium 8

:

MUSIC: A WINDOW INTO THE WO

RLD OF AUTISM

(42

-45)

Title, Category

Aim

Mus. Material, Cultural Ref.

Technology & Procedure

Main focus of interest

Conclusion

42. Pamela Heaton, Rory Allen, Francesca Happe, Anna Jarvinen

-Pasley,

Jennifer Mayer, J

essica

Ward

Why are musical skills preserved in autism?

Cat. 1: Pitch

Cat. 11: Disorder

Potential explanations for uneven development across functional domains in infants diagnosed with autism will be proposed and future directions for the study of

music

in autism will be

outlined

Whilst research has shown that infants who are subsequently diagnosed with autism fail to “attend” to speech, such inattention does not appear to generalize to music

Experiments conducted with verbally able children and

ad

ults with autism have

revealed a heightened

sensitivity to pitch in music and environmental sounds