{"title":"Neuroplasticity in Music Learning","authors":"V. Putkinen, M. Tervaniemi","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.22","url":null,"abstract":"Studies conducted during the last three decades have identified numerous differences between musicians and non-musicians in neural correlates of sensory, motor, and higher-order cognitive functions. Research employing event-related potentials/fields has been particularly important in this framework. This chapter reviews the evidence that has emerged from these studies with emphasis on longitudinal studies comparing functional brain development in children taking music lessons and those engaged in non-musical activities. The literature provides empirical and theoretical grounds for concluding that musical training enhances sound encoding skills that are relevant for both music and speech processing. The question whether the benefits of musical training transfer to more distantly related cognitive functions remains controversial, however. Finally, it appears likely that training-induced plasticity alone does not account for the differences in brain function between musicians and non-musicians and, conversely, that predisposing factors also play a role.","PeriodicalId":210705,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116214550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christina M. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden, J. E. T. Taylor, Jessica A. Grahn
{"title":"Neural Basis of Rhythm Perception","authors":"Christina M. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden, J. E. T. Taylor, Jessica A. Grahn","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.8","url":null,"abstract":"To understand and enjoy music, it is important to be able to hear the beat and move your body to the rhythm. However, impaired rhythm processing has a broader impact on perception and cognition beyond music-specific tasks. We also experience rhythms in our everyday interactions, through the lip and jaw movements of watching someone speak, the syllabic structure of words on the radio, and in the movements of our limbs when we walk. Impairments in the ability to perceive and produce rhythms are related to poor language outcomes, such as dyslexia, and they can provide an index of a primary symptom in movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease. The chapter summarizes a growing body of literature examining the neural underpinnings of rhythm perception and production. It highlights the importance of auditory-motor relationships in finding and producing a beat in music by reviewing evidence from a number of methodologies. These approaches illustrate how rhythmic auditory information capitalizes on auditory-motor interactions to influence motor excitability, and how beat perception emerges as a function of nonlinear oscillatory dynamics of the brain. Together these studies highlight the important role of rhythm in human development, evolutionary comparisons, multi-modal perception, mirror neurons, language processing, and music.","PeriodicalId":210705,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116313885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multisensory Processing in Music","authors":"F. Russo","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides an overview of multisensory processing in music by individuals with normal hearing, hearing loss, and deafness. The first section provides an account of theory and evidence regarding the neural mechanisms underpinning multisensory processing. The second section considers auditory-only processing of music with a focus on lateralization, basic modularity, and pathways. The final section considers non-auditory and multisensory processing of pitch, timbre, and rhythm. For each dimension, psychophysical evidence is presented before reviewing the extant neuroscientific evidence. Where no neuroscientific evidence exists, proposals have been made about the types of neural mechanisms that may be involved. Neuroplastic changes following deafness are also considered. The chapter ultimately argues that although most individuals will justifiably focus on sound as the core of music processing, a more inclusive and nuanced consideration of music takes a multisensory perspective, involving the integration of inputs from auditory, visual, somatosensory, vestibular, and motor areas.","PeriodicalId":210705,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain","volume":"441 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123870508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neurologic Music Therapy Targeting Cognitive and Affective Functions","authors":"S. Hegde","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.29","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive deficits play a central role in recovery and determining functional outcome in neurological and psychiatric conditions. New techniques of cognitive rehabilitation address the issue of sustenance and generalizability of improved cognitive functions to activities of daily living. Research in the field of music and neuroscience has contributed immensely towards better understanding of neural correlates of music perception and cognition and music production. Neurologic music therapy (NMT) has emerged as a neuroscientific based systematic method to improve sensorimotor, language, cognition, and affective domains of functioning. The two interrelated dynamic models, the “Rational Scientific Mediating Model” and the “Transformational Design Model” of NMT are discussed in comparison with principles of cognitive remediation. An increase in research examining the role of music-based intervention to target cognition and emotion has been initiated. NMT has facilitated the field of music therapy from a predominantly social science model to a neuroscientific model based technique.","PeriodicalId":210705,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129030903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acoustic Structure and Musical Function: Musical Notes Informing Auditory Research","authors":"Michael Schutz","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.7","url":null,"abstract":"Music’s continual temporal changes make it a useful stimulus for studying cognitive and neural processes unfolding over time. Although this dynamic nature is widely recognized on a macro level, the importance of temporal changes in individual notes is less widely discussed. For example, textbooks often focus on power spectra—time invariant summaries of spectral information—to explain differences in timbre between musical instruments. Unfortunately, this approach overlooks the importance of dynamic fluctuations in individual notes’ overtones. This chapter highlights the under-recognized importance of temporal structure in musical sounds by synthesizing a diverse range of research on musical acoustics and perception. It concludes by contrasting the rich temporal dynamics of musical sounds with the temporally invariant tones common in auditory perception research—which exhibit significant shortcomings regarding ecological validity. Although this creates barriers for generalizing outcomes from experiments with simplistic tones, it also offers exciting new topics for future research.","PeriodicalId":210705,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115427405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Musical Development in Early Language Acquisition","authors":"Anthony K. Brandt, L. Slevc, Molly Gebrian","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.23","url":null,"abstract":"Language and music are readily distinguished by adults, but there is growing evidence that infants first experience speech as a special type of music. By listening to the phonemic inventory and prosodic patterns of their caregivers’ speech, infants learn how their native language is composed, later bootstrapping referential meaning onto this musical framework. Our current understanding of infants’ sensitivities to the musical features of speech, the co-development of musical and linguistic abilities, and shared developmental disorders, supports the view that music and language are deeply entangled in the infant brain and modularity emerges over the course of development. This early entanglement of music and language is crucial to the cultural transmission of language and children’s ability to learn any of the world’s tongues.","PeriodicalId":210705,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124646071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brain Research in Music Improvisation","authors":"Michael G. Erkkinen, A. Berkowitz","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.20","url":null,"abstract":"Musical improvisation refers to spontaneous generation of novel musical compositions in the moment of performance. The neural correlates of musical improvisation have been studied using functional brain imaging studies (fMRI, PET) as well as electrophysiologic techniques (EEG, tDCS). These studies reveal a broad network of brain regions recruited during musical improvisation. These regions participate in domain-general processes such as attention and executive control; rule-based motor sequence generation, selection, timing, and execution; sensorimotor integration; multimodal sensation; emotional processing; and interpersonal communication. Improvisational expertise appears to modulate how attentional networks are recruited during improvisation, and also enhances functional connections between motivational, sensory, limbic, and motor regions. Understanding the neural correlates of musical improvisation provides broader insights into the cognitive basis of creativity.","PeriodicalId":210705,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127678226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Neuroaesthetics of Music: A Research Agenda Coming of Age","authors":"E. Brattico","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.15","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers an overview on the state-of-the-art research under the agenda of the neuroaesthetics of music. This research agenda, inspired by the neuroaesthetics of visual art, represents a paradigm shift from neuroimaging studies focused exclusively on music perception, cognition, and emotion to studies that consider aesthetic responses such as liking, preference, and aesthetic judgments. The existing models depicting information processing stages of the musical aesthetic experiences and their loci in the brain are summarized. The latest findings point at a synergy between neural systems, and particularly between superior temporal gyrus and limbic reward areas for issuing aesthetic responses to music. Future challenges for the field are the discovery of the neural mechanisms of inter-subject communication during musical performance leading to an efficacious aesthetic experience.","PeriodicalId":210705,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115441522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neurochemical Responses to Music","authors":"Y. Koshimori","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.14","url":null,"abstract":"Neuroscientific pursuit of music is of growing interest. Literature shows that music enhances neurochemical release, activating the pleasure center of the brain; promotes the secretion of an antibody, enhancing immunity; as well as attenuates and prevents the release of a stress hormone, helping to cope with stressors. These findings demonstrate that music can potentially serve as a scientifically proven medium to exert positive effects on physical and psychological health and well-being. However, research on neurochemical responses to music is still in its infancy and further research is critically needed to determine more specific effects of music. This chapter summarizes existing literature investigating central and peripheral molecular responses to music including neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, hormones, and immune biomarkers, discusses the limitations, and warrants more neuroimaging studies to aim to expand interdisciplinary research in music and neuroscience.","PeriodicalId":210705,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125516498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Blue Turns to Gray: The Enigma of Musician’s Dystonia","authors":"D. A. Peterson, E. Altenmüller","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198804123.013.32","url":null,"abstract":"Musician’s dystonia (MD) is an enigmatic neurologic disorder that selectively interferes with voluntary motor control required for music performance. In many cases it is evident only in certain passages of certain pieces. This contributes to the challenges of assessment and treatment. Oral medications and botulinum toxin injections have shown some limited efficacy, but with adverse side effects. Physical medicine and rehabilitation strategies generally have a lower risk of adverse side effects and show promise in efficacy but are difficult to incorporate in well-controlled studies. MD shares pathophysiologic features with other forms of focal dystonia, including abnormalities in inhibition, sensorimotor integration, and plasticity at many levels of the central nervous system. Theories for the pathogenesis include multiple etiologic factors, such as genetics, gender, and “use patterns.” Ongoing research on assessment, pathophysiology, and pathogenesis should provide rationale bases for managing and even preventing MD.","PeriodicalId":210705,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115386265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}