Music is a universal feature of human societies, partly owing to its power to evoke strong
emotions and influence moods. During the past decade, the investigation of the neural …

Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory, and motor experience that usually
commences at an early age and requires the acquisition and maintenance of a range of …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

Listening to music often evokes intense emotions [1, 2]. Recent research suggests that
musical pleasure comes from positive reward prediction errors, which arise when what is …

The organization of human auditory cortex remains unresolved, due in part to the small
stimulus sets common to fMRI studies and the overlap of neural populations within voxels …

Executive functions (EF) are cognitive capacities that allow for planned, controlled behavior
and strongly correlate with academic abilities. Several extracurricular activities have been …

Music perception involves acoustic analysis, auditory memory, auditory scene analysis,
processing of interval relations, of musical syntax and semantics, and activation of (pre) …

The human brain has the remarkable capacity to alter in response to environmental
demands. Training-induced structural brain changes have been demonstrated in the healthy …

We conducted a longitudinal study with 32 nonmusician children over 9 months to determine
1) whether functional differences between musician and nonmusician children reflect …

Does the brain think? Is it the creator of the world of experience, the constructor of the
subject? This widespread interpretation of the neurosciences is contrasted in this book with …