Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

Appendix 3.04 Survey of The Neurosciences and Music I

V

Conference 2011

Learning and Memory

The Neurosciences and Music IV

: Learning and Memory

. Conference

June

9-12, 2011

at

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

A survey of presentations

based on the c

onference abstracts and personal notes

Contents:

Number

of presentations

Workshop 1:

E

xperi

mental methods

4 (1

-4)

Workshop 2:

S

ocial / real world methods

4

(5-8)

Symposium 1:

M

echanisms of rhythm and meter learning over the life span

3 (9

-11)

Symposium 2:

I

mpact of musical experience on cerebral language processing

4 (12

-15)

Symposium 3:

C

ultural neuroscience of music

6 (16

-21)

Symposium 4:

M

emory and learning in music performance

5

(22

-26)

Symposium 5:

M

ind and brain in musical image

ry

4

(27

-30)

Symposium 6:

P

lasticity and malplasticity in healt

h and disease

5

(31

-35)

Symposium 7:

The role of music in stroke rehabilitation: Neural mechan

isms and therapeutic techniques

6

(36

-41)

Symposium 8:

Music: A window into the world of autism

4 (42

-45)

Symposium 9:

L

earning and

memory in musical disorders

4

(46

-49)

Information about the presentations is not complete, as merely abstracts of the papers were available at the time of compilin

g the present survey.

The survey presents, in brief and schematic form,

available inf

ormation about

each

presentation

:

Title

as indicated in the

conference abstracts

. Category of investigation

Aim of the study

Musical m

aterial

applied as stimuli in the study, and C

ultural references of the

Musical material

.

Technology and Procedure

Ma

in focus of interest

Conclusion

Recurrent abbreviations:

EEG: Electroencephalography.

MEG: Magnetoencephalography.

PET: Positron Emission Tomography.

fMRI: functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. MRI: Magnetic Re

sonance Imaging.

CR: Cultural referenc

e.

SNI: Source not indicated