Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

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.