Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

Appendix 3.01 Survey of The Neurosciences and Music I

• Conference 2002

The Neurosciences and Music

I: Mutual Interactions and Implications on Developmental Functions

. Conference October 25

-27, 2002 in Venice,

Italy.

A survey o

f paper

s in

the conference proceedings

:

Avanzini, G. et al. (eds.) (2003)

The Neurosciences and Mu

sic.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume

999.

Contents

: Number of

paper

s

Part I. Cerebral Organization of Music

-Related Functions

29

(1-29)

Including

Roundtable I: Dissecting the Perceptual Components of Music

Part

II. Brain Sciences versus Music

15 (30

-44)

Including

Roundtable II: A Common High

-Level Ground for Scientists and Musicians

Part III. Music and Development

17 (45

-61)

Including

Roundtable III: Import of Musical Training on Cognition

, Behavior, and Skills

The

survey presents, in brief and schematic form, for each

paper

:

Abbreviated

title

as indicated in the conference proceedings, with page numbers.

Categorization of the issue of the

paper

.

Aim of the study

Musical material

or sou

nd

applied as stimuli in the study. Cultural references of the material

.

Technology and Procedure

Main focus of interest

Conclusion

A number of notable pap

ers are marked with an asterisk

*. Some notable findings are written in

bold type.

Current

Abbrevi

ations:

EEG

: Electroencephalography

MEG

: Magnetoencephalography

PET

: P

ositron Emission Tomography. Detects blood flow in regions of the brain.

fMRI

: functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Detects

BOLD

: Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent response

in regions of the brain.

SNI

: Sound source not indicated

CR

: Cultural Reference