Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
Psychology 3190F
Dr. Jessica Grahn
Schedule of Lectures and Readings
September 12th Lecture: Introduction, cognitive neuroscience methods, evolution.
*Lewis, 2001: Musical Minds
*McDermott & Hauser, 2005: The origins of music: innateness, uniqueness, and evolution
Supplementary: Ch 1 of Levitin: Useful and readable descriptions of music terminology: not technical--recommended.
Supplementary: Ch 3 Ward: The electrophysiological brain
Supplementary: Ch 4 Ward: The imaged brain (recommended if your background in neuroscience does not include above methods)
Supplementary: Ch 2 of Tan: Acoustics of music (pages 9-18)
Supplementary: Ch 3 of Tan: Sound and neurophysiology of hearing
Web links with useful information
Useful introduction into eeg/meg signals (Parts 1-6)
The basics of reading music (you do not need to know details)
Rhythm: vocabulary at the top not great, but demos of different rhythms and how they are written are good
September 19th Lecture: Rhythm, beat perception, and metre
*Geiser, Zeigler, Jancke, & Meyer, 2009: Early electrophysiological correlates of meter and rhythm processing in music perception.
*Ladinig, Honing, Haden, and Winkler, 2009: Probing attentive and preattentive emergent meter in adult listeners without extensive music training
*Grahn & Brett, 2007: Rhythm and beat processing in motor areas of the brain
Patel, Iversen, Bregman & Schulz, 2009: Studying synchronization to a musical beat in nonhuman animals
Supplementary: Zatorre, Chen & Penhune, 2007: When the brain plays music: auditory–motor interactions in music perception and production
September 26th Lecture: Pitch processing in music
*Zatorre, 2001: Neural specializations for tonal processing
*Loui, Wu, Wessel, & Knight, 2009: A generalized mechanism for perception of pitch patterns.
*Tierney, Russo, & Patel: The motor origins of human and avian song structure: commonalities in song structure
October 3rd Lecture: Musical development
*Hannon & Trainor, 2007: Music acquisition: effects of enculturation and formal training on development
*Winkler et al., 2009 Newborn infants detect the beat in music
*Phillips-Silver & Trainor, 2005 Feeling the Beat: Movement Influences Infant Rhythm Perception
Supplementary: Trainor, 2005 Are There Critical Periods for Musical Development?
October 10th (holiday)
October 17th Lecture: Music and Language
*Slevc, Rosenberg, & Patel, 2009: Making psycholinguistics musical: Self-paced reading time: evidence for shared processing of linguistic and musical syntax
*Koelsch, Kasper, Sammler, Schulze, Gunter & Friederici 2004: Music, language and meaning: brain signatures of semantic processing.
*Patel, 2011: Why would musical training benefit the neural encoding of speech? The OPERA hypothesis
Supplementary: Ch 4 of Tan: Neuroscience of Music
October 24th Lecture: Expectation & Emotion. Progress Report due
*Blood, Zatorre, Bermudez, & Evans, 1999: Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions.
*Salimpoor, Benovoy, Larcher, Dagher, & Zatorre, 2011: Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music.
*Peretz, Blood, Penhune &Zatorre, 2001: Cortical deafness to dissonance
*Ch 14 of Tan: The emotional power of music
Supplementary: Trainor & Zatorre, 2009: The neurobiological basis of musical expectations.
October 31st Midterm
November 7th Lecture: Brain Plasticity and Structure
*Elbert, Pantev, Wienvruch, Rockstroh & Taub, 1995: Increased Cortical Representation of the Fingers of the Left Hand in String Players
*Schneider, Scherg, Dosch, Specht, Gutschalk & Rupp: 2002: Morphology of Heschl’s gyrus reflects enhanced activation of auditory cortex in musicians
*Elbert, Candia, Altenmuller, Rau, Sterr, Rockstroh, Pantev & Taub, 1998: Alteration of digital representations in somatosensory cortex in focal hand dystonia
Supplementary: Schellenberg, 2005: Music and Cognitive Abilities
November 14th Guest lecture All Press Article Critiques should be finished before this week
November 21st Grant Presentations (Written proposal due at 9 am, peer review due within 1 week)
November 28th Grant Presentations (Written proposal due at 9 am, peer review due within 1 week)
December 5th Summary, Class chosen topics, Discussion
*Lewis, 2001: Musical Minds
*McDermott & Hauser, 2005: The origins of music: innateness, uniqueness, and evolution
Supplementary: Ch 1 of Levitin: Useful and readable descriptions of music terminology: not technical--recommended.
Supplementary: Ch 3 Ward: The electrophysiological brain
Supplementary: Ch 4 Ward: The imaged brain (recommended if your background in neuroscience does not include above methods)
Supplementary: Ch 2 of Tan: Acoustics of music (pages 9-18)
Supplementary: Ch 3 of Tan: Sound and neurophysiology of hearing
Web links with useful information
Useful introduction into eeg/meg signals (Parts 1-6)
The basics of reading music (you do not need to know details)
Rhythm: vocabulary at the top not great, but demos of different rhythms and how they are written are good
September 19th Lecture: Rhythm, beat perception, and metre
*Geiser, Zeigler, Jancke, & Meyer, 2009: Early electrophysiological correlates of meter and rhythm processing in music perception.
*Ladinig, Honing, Haden, and Winkler, 2009: Probing attentive and preattentive emergent meter in adult listeners without extensive music training
*Grahn & Brett, 2007: Rhythm and beat processing in motor areas of the brain
Patel, Iversen, Bregman & Schulz, 2009: Studying synchronization to a musical beat in nonhuman animals
Supplementary: Zatorre, Chen & Penhune, 2007: When the brain plays music: auditory–motor interactions in music perception and production
September 26th Lecture: Pitch processing in music
*Zatorre, 2001: Neural specializations for tonal processing
*Loui, Wu, Wessel, & Knight, 2009: A generalized mechanism for perception of pitch patterns.
*Tierney, Russo, & Patel: The motor origins of human and avian song structure: commonalities in song structure
October 3rd Lecture: Musical development
*Hannon & Trainor, 2007: Music acquisition: effects of enculturation and formal training on development
*Winkler et al., 2009 Newborn infants detect the beat in music
*Phillips-Silver & Trainor, 2005 Feeling the Beat: Movement Influences Infant Rhythm Perception
Supplementary: Trainor, 2005 Are There Critical Periods for Musical Development?
October 10th (holiday)
October 17th Lecture: Music and Language
*Slevc, Rosenberg, & Patel, 2009: Making psycholinguistics musical: Self-paced reading time: evidence for shared processing of linguistic and musical syntax
*Koelsch, Kasper, Sammler, Schulze, Gunter & Friederici 2004: Music, language and meaning: brain signatures of semantic processing.
*Patel, 2011: Why would musical training benefit the neural encoding of speech? The OPERA hypothesis
Supplementary: Ch 4 of Tan: Neuroscience of Music
October 24th Lecture: Expectation & Emotion. Progress Report due
*Blood, Zatorre, Bermudez, & Evans, 1999: Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions.
*Salimpoor, Benovoy, Larcher, Dagher, & Zatorre, 2011: Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music.
*Peretz, Blood, Penhune &Zatorre, 2001: Cortical deafness to dissonance
*Ch 14 of Tan: The emotional power of music
Supplementary: Trainor & Zatorre, 2009: The neurobiological basis of musical expectations.
October 31st Midterm
November 7th Lecture: Brain Plasticity and Structure
*Elbert, Pantev, Wienvruch, Rockstroh & Taub, 1995: Increased Cortical Representation of the Fingers of the Left Hand in String Players
*Schneider, Scherg, Dosch, Specht, Gutschalk & Rupp: 2002: Morphology of Heschl’s gyrus reflects enhanced activation of auditory cortex in musicians
*Elbert, Candia, Altenmuller, Rau, Sterr, Rockstroh, Pantev & Taub, 1998: Alteration of digital representations in somatosensory cortex in focal hand dystonia
Supplementary: Schellenberg, 2005: Music and Cognitive Abilities
November 14th Guest lecture All Press Article Critiques should be finished before this week
November 21st Grant Presentations (Written proposal due at 9 am, peer review due within 1 week)
November 28th Grant Presentations (Written proposal due at 9 am, peer review due within 1 week)
December 5th Summary, Class chosen topics, Discussion
Readings to make your final project outstanding (and every other written or oral presentation you do!)
Communication for Scientists
Writing or Speaking for Non-Specialists (supplementary)
Structuring Your Scientific Paper (highly recommended- including introduction, body, conclusion, and abstract)
Drafting Your Scientific Paper (highly recommended- including verbs and mechanics)
Structuring Your Oral Presentation (supplementary- including opening, body, closing, starting and ending forcefully, and revealing your presentation's structure)
Answering Questions (supplementary)
Interaction During Conferences Sessions (highly recommended - entire unit)
Writing or Speaking for Non-Specialists (supplementary)
Structuring Your Scientific Paper (highly recommended- including introduction, body, conclusion, and abstract)
Drafting Your Scientific Paper (highly recommended- including verbs and mechanics)
Structuring Your Oral Presentation (supplementary- including opening, body, closing, starting and ending forcefully, and revealing your presentation's structure)
Answering Questions (supplementary)
Interaction During Conferences Sessions (highly recommended - entire unit)
Writing
Here are links on some of the errors I note in written assignments:
Dangling or Misplaced modifier
Run-on (sentence)
Wordy
Parallel structure
This is a fantastic chapter that covers many of the above issues--if you follow these guidelines, your writing will improve 1000%:
Bem, D.J. Writing the Empirical Journal Article, from the Compleat Academic (read the whole book if you are contemplating a grad career)
Dangling or Misplaced modifier
Run-on (sentence)
Wordy
Parallel structure
This is a fantastic chapter that covers many of the above issues--if you follow these guidelines, your writing will improve 1000%:
Bem, D.J. Writing the Empirical Journal Article, from the Compleat Academic (read the whole book if you are contemplating a grad career)
Video Links
Full Video |
Video Shorts from 'Notes and Neurons' |
Press Articles
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Journal Articles
| Altenmuller & Jabusch -2010- Focal dystonia in musicians: Phenomenology, pathophysiology and triggering factors |
| Blood et al. -1999- Emotional responses to pleasent and unpleasent music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions |
| Elbert, Pantev, Wienbruch, Rockstroh, & Taub -1995- Increased cortical representation of the fingers of the left hand in string players |
| Elbert et al. -1998- Alteration of digital representations in somatosensory cortex in focal hand dystonia |
| Grahn & Brett -2007- Rhythm and beat perception in motor areas of the brain |
| Hannon & Trainor -2007- Music acquisition: Effects of enculturation and formal training on development |
| Hutchins & Peretz -2011- A frog in your throat or in your ear? Searching for the causes of poor singing |
| Koelsch et al. -2004- Music, language, and meadning: Brain signatures of semantic processing |
| Kraus & Chandrasekaran -2010- Music training for the development of auditory skills |
| Lewis -2002- Musical minds |
| Loui, Wu, & Knight -2009- A generalized mechanism for perception of pitch patterns |
| McDermott & Hauser -2005- The origins of music: Innateness, uniqueness, and evolution |
| Patel -2011- Why would musical training benefit the neural encoding of speech? The OPERA hypothesis |
| Patel, Iverson, Bregman, & Schulz -2009- Studying synchronization to a musical beat in nonhuman animals |
| peretz_et_al._-2001-_cortical_deafness_to_dissonance.pdf |
| Phillips-Silver & Trainor -2005- Feeling the beat: Movement influences infant rhythm perception |
| Schellenberg -2005- Music and cognitive abilities |
| schneider_et_al._-2002-_morphology_of_heschls_gyrus_reflects_enhanced_activation_in_the_auditory_cortex_of_musiciants.pdf |
| Slevc et al. -2009- Making psycholinguistics musical: Self-paced reading time evidence for shared processing of linguistic and musical syntax |
| Tierney, Russo, & Patel -2011- The motor origins of human and avian song structure |
| Trainor -2005- Are there critical periods for musical development? |
| Winkler, Haden, Ladinig, Sziller, & Honing -2009- Newborn infants detect the beat in music |
| Zatorre, Chen, & Penhune -2007- When the brain plays music:Auditory-motor interactions in music perception and production |
