Seminar on Music and Science 

音樂與科學書報討論

 

InstructorChen-gia Tsai

SemesterSpring 2007

Credit2

 

Schedule

 

Week 1. Introduction

 

Week 2. Animal songs I

Nottebohm F. (2005) The neural basis of birdsong. PLoS Biol. 3(5):e164.

Graybiel AM. (2005) The basal ganglia: learning new tricks and loving it. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 15(6):638-44.

 

Week 3. Animal songs II

Merker B. (2005) The conformal motive in birdsong, music, and language: an introduction. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1060:17-28.

 

Week 4-6. Music and brain

Zatorre RJ. (2005) Music, the food of neuroscience? Nature 434: 312-315.

Koelsch S, Siebel WA. (2005) Towards a neural basis of music perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9(12):578-584.

Muente TF, Altenmueller E, Jaencke L. (2002) The musician's brain as a model of neuroplasticity. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 3:473-478.

Sacks O. (2006) The power of music. Brain 129(Pt 10):2528-32.

 

Week 7. Pathology I: introduction

Baeck E. (2002) The neural networks of music. European Journal of Neurology 9:449-456.

Stewart L, von Kriegstein K, Warren JD, Griffiths TD. (2006) Music and the brain: disorders of musical listening. Brain. 129(Pt 10):2533-53.

 

Week 8. Pathology II: limbic system

Griffiths TD, Warren JD, Dean JL, Howard D. "When the feeling's gone": a selective loss of musical emotion. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 75(2):344-5.

Levitin DJ. (2005) Musical behavior in a neurogenetic developmental disorder: evidence from Williams Syndrome. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1060:325-34.

Gosselin N, Samson S, Adolphs R, Noulhiane M, Roy M, Hasboun D, Baulac M, Peretz I. (2006) Emotional responses to unpleasant music correlates with damage to the parahippocampal cortex. Brain. 129(Pt 10):2585-92.

 

Week 9. Pathology III: epilepsy and hallucination

Avanzini G. (2003) Musicogenic seizures. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 999:95-102.

Lin KL, Wang HS, Kao PF. (2003) A young infant with musicogenic epilepsy. Pediatr Neurol. 28(5):379-81.

Evers S, Ellger T. (2004) The clinical spectrum of musical hallucinations. J Neurol Sci. 15;227(1):55-65.

 

Week 10. Pathology IV: Tourette's syndrome

Sacks O. (1992) Tourette's syndrome and creativity. 305(6868):1515-6.

 

Week 11. Pathology V: creativity and diseases

Tsai CG. (2006). Disease and composing: Syphilis in Smetana, Wolf, and Schubert. Formosan Journal of Music Research 3, 91-106.

Wolf PL. (2005) The effects of diseases, drugs, and chemicals on the creativity and productivity of famous sculptors, classic painters, classic music composers, and authors. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 129(11):1457-64.

Wills GI. (2003) Forty lives in the bebop business: mental health in a group of eminent jazz musicians. Br J Psychiatry. 183:255-9.

 

Week 12. Pitch perception

Braun M, Chaloupka V. (2005) Carbamazepine induced pitch shift and octave space representation. Hear Res. 210(1-2):85-92.

Bermudez P, Zatorre RJ. (2005) Conditional associative memory for musical stimuli in nonmusicians: implications for absolute pitch. J Neurosci. 25(34):7718-23.

Hyde KL, Zatorre RJ, Griffiths TD, Lerch JP, Peretz I. (2006) Morphometry of the amusic brain: a two-site study. Brain. 129(Pt 10):2562-70.

 

Week 13. Mirror neurons

Prinz W. (2006) What re-enactment earns us. Cortex. 42(4):515-7.

Haslinger B, Erhard P, Altenmuller E, Schroeder U, Boecker H, Ceballos-Baumann AO. (2005) Transmodal sensorimotor networks during action observation in professional pianists. J Cogn Neurosci. 17(2):282-93.

 

Week 14. Music and language I

Koelsch S, Kasper E, Sammler D, Schulze K, Gunter T, Friederici AD. (2004) Music, language and meaning: brain signatures of semantic processing. Nature Neuroscience 7(3):302-7, 2004.

Ozdemir E, Norton A, Schlaug G. (2006) Shared and distinct neural correlates of singing and speaking. Neuroimage. 33(2):628-35.

 

Week 15. Music and language II

Ackermann H, Riecker A (2004) The contribution of the insula to motor aspects of speech production: a review and a hypothesis. Brain Lang 89:320-328.

Brown S, Martinez MJ, Hodges DA, Fox PT, Parsons LM. (2004) The song system of the human brain. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res. 20(3):363-75.

 

Week 16. Emotion

Menon V, Levitin DJ. (2005) The rewards of music listening: response and physiological connectivity of the mesolimbic system. Neuroimage. 28(1):175-84.

Baumgartner T, Esslen M, and Jancke L. (2006) From emotion perception to emotion experience: emotions evoked by pictures and classical music. Int J Psychophysiol. 60(1):34-43.

Koelsch S, Fritz T, Cramon DY, Muller K, Friederici AD. (2006) Investigating emotion with music: an fMRI study. Hum Brain Mapp. 27(3):239-50.

 

Week 17. Learning and cross-cultural studies

Lotze M,Scheler G, Tan HR, Braun C, Birbaumer N. (2003) The musician's brain: functional imaging of amateurs and professionals during performance and imagery. Neuroimage. 20(3):1817-29.

Mutschler I, Schulze-Bonhage A, Glauche V, Demandt E, Speck O, Ball T. (2007) A rapid sound-action association effect in human insular cortex. PLoS ONE. 2:e259.