Neurosciences and Music IV

This volume stems from the conference "The Neurosciences and Music IV: Learning and Memory" held in Edinburgh, Scotland 9–12  June  2011. The volume focuses on four themes: infants and children; adult musicians and non-musicians; disabilities and aging-related issues; and therapy and rehabilitation. Manuscripts cover a range of topics, including the cultural neuroscience of music; memory and learning in music performance; the impact of musical experience on cerebral language processing; and mechanisms of rhythm and meter learning over the life span.  The Neurosciences and Music IV will be of interest to not only to  neuroscientists, psychologists, and students, but also to clinical neurologists and psychologists, educators, and musicologists. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit http://ordering.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/subs.asp?ref=1749-6632&doi=10.1111/(ISSN)1749-6632. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member.

Introduction to The Neurosciences and Music IV: Learning and Memory Auditory brain development in premature infants : the importance of early experience Musical experience, plasticity, and maturation : issues in measuring developmental change using EEG and MEG Behavioral methods in infancy : pitfalls of single measures Pediatric neuroimaging in early childhood and infancy : challenges and practical guidelines Education through music : the model of the Musikkindergarten Berlin From the model of El Sistema in Venezuela to current applications : learning and integration through collective music education Making music in a group : synchronization and shared experience Neuroscience and "real world" practice : music as a therapeutic resource for children in zones of conflict Tempo mediates the involvement of motor areas in beat perception Without it no music : beat induction as a fundamental musical trait Effects of perceptual experience on children's and adults' perception of unfamiliar rhythms Cognitive factors shape brain networks for auditory skills : spotlight on auditory working memory Cognitive and methodological considerations on the effects of musical expertise on speech segmentation Musical expertise induces neuroplasticity of the planum temporale The OPERA hypothesis : assumptions and clarifications Becoming musically enculturated : effects of music classes for infants on brain and behavior Practiced musical style shapes auditory skills Expertise in folk music alters the brain processing of Western harmony ERP responses to cross-cultural melodic expectancy violations Effects of mono- and bicultural experiences on auditory perception A sensitive period for musical training : contributions of age of onset and cognitive abilities Musical training and the role of auditory feedback during performance The multisensory brain and its ability to learn music Sensorimotor mechanisms in music performance : actions that go partially wrong Error monitoring is altered in musician's dystonia : evidence from ERP-based studies Dynamic aspects of musical imagery Mental imagery in music performance : underlying mechanisms and potential benefits Acuity of mental representations of pitch Beyond auditory cortex : working with musical thoughts Working memory for speech and music When right is all that is left : plasticity of right-hemisphere tracts in a young aphasic patient The dynamic audio-motor system in pianists Tinnitus : the dark side of the auditory cortex plasticity Musician's cramp as manifestation of maladaptive brain plasticity : arguments from instrumental differences Music listening after stroke : beneficial effects and potential neural mechanisms The involvement of audio-motor coupling in the music-supported therapy applied to stroke patients Changes in neuromagnetic beta-band oscillation after music-supported stroke rehabilitation Making music after stroke : using musical activities to enhance arm function Effective music therapy techniques in the treatment of nonfluent aphasia Music : a unique window into the world of autism Auditory-musical processing in autism spectrum disorders : a review of behavioral and brain imaging studies Atypical hemispheric asymmetry in the arcuate fasciculus of completely nonverbal children with autism Memory disorders and vocal performance Is there potential for learning in amusia? a study of the effect of singing intervention in congenital amusia Impaired learning of event frequencies in tone deafness Statistical learning of speech, not music, in congenital amusia