Brain and Music

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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 30, 2012 - Science - 328 pages
A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the effects of music on the brain

  • Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception, including musical syntax, musical semantics, music and action, music and emotion
  • Includes general introductory chapters to engage a broad readership, as well as a wealth of detailed research material for experts
  • Offers the most empirical (and most systematic) work on the topics of neural correlates of musical syntax and musical semantics
  • Integrates research from different domains (such as music, language, action and emotion both theoretically and empirically, to create a comprehensive theory of music psychology
 

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Contents

Introductory Chapters
1
ERP Components
5
Musictheoretical Background
17
Perception of Pitch and Harmony
23
A Brief Historical Account of ERP Studies of Music Processing
70
fMRI and
79
Towards a New Theory of Music Psychology
87
Musical Syntax
98
Musical Semantics
156
Music and Action
186
Concluding Remarks and Summary
241
References
267
Index
303
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Stefan Koelsch
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About the author (2012)

Stefan Koelsch is Professor of Music Psychology at the Freie University Berlin. He is a former post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School, and led an independent Junior Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. His main areas of research are neurocognition of music, music and emotion, and music therapy.

Bibliographic information

TitleBrain and Music
AuthorStefan Koelsch
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2012
ISBN0470683406, 9780470683408
Length328 pages
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Psychology / General
Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
  
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