Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

Appendix 3.01 Survey of The Neurosciences and Music I

• Conference 2002

Title, Category

Aim

Mus. Material, Cultural Ref.

Technology & Proc

edure

Main focus of interest

Conclusion

60P. Ruzza et al. (527

-529)

Musical quality of early infant sounds

Cat

. 6: Infant sounds
Cat. 7: Culture 61P. Thompson et al. (530

-532)

Perceiving prosody in speech

Cat

. 6: Phonetic sounds
Cat. 8: Music

ians

Early vocalizations in

2-month

old

Italian and Moroccan

infants are examined

To test whether musical training is associated with anhanced ability to per

ceive

prosody in speech

Cooing, gooing, babbling, vowel

-like, consonant

-like

sounds

CR: Ital

ian, Moroccan

Four happy

-sounding

utterances, and intonation melodies (

SNI)

, matching

utterances in pitch and temporal variation

CR: Neutral

Five 2

-month

-old infants,

three Moroccan, two Italian.

Statistical analysis of acoustic parameters

22 musically trained, 16 untrained listeners.

Task: To listen to

pairs of

utterances and melodies,

and

judge whether or not the intonation melody matched the prosody of the phrase

Protophones (precursors of speech)

. Differences

be

tween

the two ethnic

groups

Differences between music

ally trained an

d

untrained listeners

In both groups, speech utterances prevail over non

speech sounds

Musically trained participants are better than untrained participants at extracting prosodic information from speech