Music, Motor Control and the Brain
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 July 2006
- ISBN 9780199298723
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 245x170x18 mm
- Weight 637 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line drawings, tables and halftones 0
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Short description:
This book examines the neural basis of musicianship and forms a comprehensive account of the motor skills and associated cognitive processes which are behind musical talent. It covers a range of instruments and performance situations, and examines motor problems in musicians in later life.
MoreLong description:
The motor actions that can be witnessed as a virtuoso musician performs can be so fast, so accomplished, so precise, as to seem somehow superhuman. The musician has to produce the movements, monitor those they have already made and the subsequent result, co-ordinate their hands, fingers, eyes, and perhaps throat and diaphragm. These achievements are of course the product of hundreds, even thousands of hours of practice - playing scales, studies, time and time again. But those hours of practice by no means guarantee that great musicianship will result. This technical prowess has to be combined with a range of other, perhaps, less tangible qualities.
This book explores the secrets of musical virtuosity. It presents a comprehensive account of music and motor cognition, examining the neural basis of music making - our understanding of which is just starting to be enhanced by brain imaging. It considers the effect on our brains of prolonged music making. It explores the motor processes across a range of instruments (vocal, string, wind, percussion) and within different performance situations. It also considers what happens when things start to go wrong - why motor problems occur in so many professional musicians in later life, and the possible therapies for such problems.
Music is a topic of considerable interest within the brain sciences. With contributions from leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and neurologists, this book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of music and the brain.
Table of Contents:
Part 1: History
Historical increases in expert music performance skills: optimising instruments, playing techniques and training
Part 2: Psychology
From cognition to action
The nature of memory for music performance skills
Musical synchronization
PArt 3: Movement analysis
Hand movements and musical performance
Movement analysis in pianists
Fingering and bowing in violinists
Movements and analysis of drumming
Part 4: Representation in the Brain
Brain structures of musicians: executive functions and morphological implications
The motor representation in pianists and string players
Brain activation during piano playing
Brain activation during string playing
'Singing in the (b)rain': cerebral correlates of vocal music performance in humans
Sensory-motor networks in singing and speaking: a comparative approach
Role of inhibition in motor control of finger functions
Part 5: Apollo's curse - the loss of motor control in musicians
The end of the song? Robert Schumann's focal dystonia
Epidemiology, phenomenology and therapy of musician's cramp
The neurophysiology of focal hand dystonia in musicians
The development of focal dystonia in musicians as a consequence of maladaptive plasticity: implications for intervention
Music performance anxiety
