Clinical Research Paper Database
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Art and science: How musical training shapes the brain
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What makes a musician? In this review, we discuss innate and experience-dependent factors that mold the musician brain in addition to presenting new data in children that indicate that some neural enhancements in musicians unfold with continued training over development. We begin by addressing ef...
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Beat synchronization predicts neural speech encoding and reading readiness in preschoolers
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Sensitivity to fine timing cues in speech is thought to play a key role in language learning, facilitating the development of phonological processing. In fact, a link between beat synchronization, which requires fine auditory–motor synchrony, and language skills has been found in ...
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The Belly-Button Chord: Connections of pre- and postnatal music education with early mother-child interaction
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Music and interaction were the focus of interest of this PhD-study. Early music education experiences were examined in three groups in the empirical study by comparing mother-child interaction. The study is within the field of early childhood music education. Multiple strategies study, including ...
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The Human Faculty for Music: What’s special about it?
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This thesis presents a model of a narrow faculty for music - qualities that are at once universally present and operational in music across cultures whilst also being specific to our species and to the domain of music. The comparative approach taken focuses on core psychological and physiological...
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Clinical applications of music therapy in neurologic rehabilitation
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"Perhaps it is a phenomenon peculiar to Austria that music therapy does not yet enjoy its rightful place in the medical therapeutical palette. For a scan be seen from the contributions of Oliver Sacks and Conchetta Tomaino, which describe investigations carried out as early as the ninetee...
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Two-Level Model of Embodied Cognition in Music
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"In this paper, I propose that embodied cognition in music has two distinct levels. The “surface” level relates to the apparent corporeal articulation such as the activated psychomotor program of a music performer, visible gestures in response to music, and rhythmic entrainment. The primary (thou...
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Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Evolution, the Musical Brain, Medical Conditions, and Therapies
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Finding an evolutionary explanation for the origins of music serves as a rich test of broader ideas on the emergence of mind and the evolution of mental processes. Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer both offered evolutionary explanations for the origins of music, indicating the importance of the ...
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Dalcroze, the body, movement and musicality
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What forms the basis of musical expressivity? The Swiss composer and music educator, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, believed that bodily processes, rhythm, and physical motion were the basis of musical expressivity and music pedagogy. We can rephrase his emphasis on the synergy between bodily and musical...
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A review of “music and movement” therapies for children with autism: embodied interventions for multisystem development
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The rising incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) has led to a surge in the number of children needing autism interventions. This paper is a call to clinicians to diversify autism interventions and to promote the use of embodied music-based approaches to facilitate multisystem development....
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The Neurosciences and Music: An Overview and Discussion
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The present text provides brief documentation of the 122 papers published in the three proceedings of The Neurosciences and Music Conferences 2011, 2014 and 2017. The intention of this internet publication is to facilitate quick access to information about music related neuroscience for intereste...
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Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience
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The thesis investigates music listening, music phenomenology and neuroscience related to music
therapy. Parts of a previous publication, The Musical Timespace, are included.
Music phenomenology
Criteria for phenomenological investigation are proposed, and the approaches of three important
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Building Bridges with ABT – Techniques of Voice, Rhythm & Melody
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This booklet is about music and autism. It examines the neurological basis of autism and how music can be used as a step by step approach. It is primarily meant as a guide for ABT Practitioners who are working with children on the autism spectrum. All ABT Practitioners who are working with groups...
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