Music and the Mind Machine The Psychophysiology and Psychopathology of the Sense of Music

Research in music is a multidisciplinary matter. Experts from very different fields in science report the most recent data from their own research and thereby show today's knowledge concerning music and neuropsychological sciences. This includes the developing and adult brain, neurological and psychiatric diseases as well as the battery of the most recent development in brain imaging techniques.
This book offers an excellent introduction to new scientific efforts in understanding both neuronal and psychic mechanisms when listening to or performing music.

I. Musical Expression and Comprehension.- Convergent Research Methods in Music Cognition.- Fundamental Factors of Music Comprehension.- Beginning of Human Musicality.- Expressive Intention and Performance.- Expressive Aspects of Instrumental and Vocal Performance.- The Two Steps of the Categorization Process in Music Listening An Approach of the Cue Extraction Mechanism as Modular System.- The Zürich Performance Workstation Project - An Overview.- II. Music Physiology and Pathophysiology.- Music Perception in the Auditory Hierarchy.- Neuronal Response in Limbic and Neocortical Structures During Perception of Consonances and Dissonances.- Neural Nets and Music Cognition.- What Does the Visual Information Contained in Music Performances Offer the Observer? Some Preliminary Thoughts.- Tone Discrimination in Patients with Temporal Lobe Lesions.- Music Processing After Brain Damage: The Case of Rhythm Without Melody.- Immune Parameters, Musical Abilities, and Anomalous Dominance.- III. Music Psychopathology.- The Psychopathology of the Sense of Music.- Music Perception and Preference in the Course of Mental Diseases.- The Reality of Musical Delusions.- Aggression And Autoaggression in the Opera.- Dramatization of Madness in the Opera: SALOMÈ, by Richard Strauss.- Can Strong Experiences of Music Have Therapeutic Implications?.- IV. Brain Imaging and Music.- EEG in Music Psychological Studies.- How Consistent are Changes in EEG Coherence Patterns Elicited by Music Perception.- Motor Cortical Fields and Rhythmic Coordination of The Hands in Music Performance.- DC-EEG, MEG and FMRI as Investigational Tools for Music Processing.- Music and SPECT.- EEG Mapping During Music Perception and MRI Data in Psychiatric Patients.