Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

Appendix 3.01 Survey of The Neurosciences and Music I

• Conference 2002

Part I:

Poster Papers

Title, Category

Aim

Mus. Material, Cultural Ref.

Technology & Procedure

Main focus of interest

Conclusion

14P. Bey & Zatorre (152-

154)

Interleaved Melodies

Cat

. 1: Melody
15P. Brattico et al. (155-

157)

Electrical Brain Responses to Music

Cat

. 2: Harmony
16P. Brattico et al. (158-

160)

Acquired Deafness to Dissonance

Cat

. 2: Consonance

/

Dissonance

Cat. 11:

Deficit

Neural basis of auditory stream segregation

Neural correlates of aesthetic vs. descriptive listening of the same musical cadences

Distinction beween consonant and dissonant intervals by a patient and cont

rol subjects

Two unfamiliar six

-tone

melodies, one with distractor tones

(SNI)

CR:

Western

180 five

-chord cadences. 10

with correct, 10 with ambiguous, 10 with incorrect ending

(SNI)

CR: Western

Two sets of four intervals: a ”consonant” and a ”dis

sonant”

context

(SNI)

CR: Neutral

fMRI. Decide whether the melodies are identical or different. 8 listeners

15 nonmusicians.

EEG while listening. Judging tasks: correct / incorrect or like / dislike

One patient, who had bilateral lesions in the auditory cortex, but intact hearing.

EEG while listening

Difference if the target melody is presented before or after the melody with distractor tones?

Activated neural resources, especially right frontocentral negativity

Effects of patient’s

bilateral

lesions in the auditory cortex

Event

-Related Potentials

(ERP

), Mismatch N

egativity

(MMN)

Similar cortical networks involved in both conditions

More neural resources are devoted to prepare an evaluative (aesthetic) listening The electrical brain responses did not differentiate

be

tween

dissonance and consonance

.

Neural substrates underlying MMN generation are altered by patient’s brain lesions.

P: indicates a short poster paper, e.g. 14P