Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
Psychology 3230F
Dr. Jessica Grahn
Schedule of Lectures and Readings
September 10th 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: What is Music? Recommended for non-musicians, non-technical descriptions of musical terms, entertaining.
Supplementary: Ch 3 Ward: The electrophysiological brain (description of EEG/MEG methods: recommended if your background has not covered these methods)
Supplementary: Ch 4 Ward: The imaged brain (description of PET/fMRI: recommended if your background has not covered these methods)
Supplementary: Ch 2 of Tan: Acoustics of music(pages 9-18). A more scientific description of terms in music and acoustics (frequency, timbre, harmonics).
Supplementary: Ch 3 of Tan: Sound and neurophysiology of hearing A description of how sound is translated into perception (amplitude vs. loudness, frequency vs. pitch, etc.)
Here are some 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, but if you are curious)
Rhythm: the vocabulary at the top is not great, but demos of different rhythms and how they are written in musical notation are good
September 17th 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: Experimental evidence for synchronization to a musical beat in a nonhuman animal
Supplementary: Zatorre, Chen & Penhune, 2007: When the brain plays music: auditory–motor
interactions in music perception and production
September 24th Lecture: Pitch processing in music
*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
*Stewart, 2012: Characterizing congenital amusia
Supplementary: Loui, Alsop, & Schlaug 2009: Tone deafness: a new disconnection syndrome?
October 1st 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?
Supplementary: Schellenberg, 2005: Music and Cognitive Abilities
October 8th (holiday)
October 15th mini-mid-term 1, guest lecture, project work.
October 22nd Lecture: Music and Language Progress Report due
*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 29th Lecture: Expectation & Emotion. All Press Article Critiques should be finished before this week
*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.
*Griffiths, Warren, Dean, & Howard, 2004: ‘‘When the feeling’s gone’’: a selective loss of musical emotion
*Huron, 2004: Music-engendered laughter: An analysis of humor devices in PDQ Bach
*Ch 14 of Tan: The emotional power of music
Supplementary: Trainor & Zatorre, 2009: The neurobiological basis of musical expectations.
November 5th Lecture: Neuropsychological studies and clinical applications of music
*de Bruin, Doan, Turnbull, Suchowersky, Bonfield, Hu, & Brown 2010: Walking with music is a safe and viable tool for gait training in Parkinson’s disease: the effect of a 13-week feasibility study on single and dual task walking.
*Stewart, Kriegstein, Warren & Griffiths, 2006: Music and the brain: disorders of musical listening
*Norton, Zipse, Marchina, & Schlaug, 2009: Melodic intonation therapy: shared insights on how it is done and why it might help.
November 12th mini-mid-term 2 + in-class work on project.
November 19th 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
November 26th Grant Presentations (All written proposals due at 12 pm)
December 3rd Grant Presentations (All peer reviews due at 12 pm)
* = required reading, Supplementary reading is strongly recommended but not required.
*Lewis, 2001: Musical Minds
*McDermott & Hauser, 2005: The origins of music: innateness, uniqueness, and evolution
Supplementary: Ch 1 of Levitin: What is Music? Recommended for non-musicians, non-technical descriptions of musical terms, entertaining.
Supplementary: Ch 3 Ward: The electrophysiological brain (description of EEG/MEG methods: recommended if your background has not covered these methods)
Supplementary: Ch 4 Ward: The imaged brain (description of PET/fMRI: recommended if your background has not covered these methods)
Supplementary: Ch 2 of Tan: Acoustics of music(pages 9-18). A more scientific description of terms in music and acoustics (frequency, timbre, harmonics).
Supplementary: Ch 3 of Tan: Sound and neurophysiology of hearing A description of how sound is translated into perception (amplitude vs. loudness, frequency vs. pitch, etc.)
Here are some 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, but if you are curious)
Rhythm: the vocabulary at the top is not great, but demos of different rhythms and how they are written in musical notation are good
September 17th 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: Experimental evidence for synchronization to a musical beat in a nonhuman animal
Supplementary: Zatorre, Chen & Penhune, 2007: When the brain plays music: auditory–motor
interactions in music perception and production
September 24th Lecture: Pitch processing in music
*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
*Stewart, 2012: Characterizing congenital amusia
Supplementary: Loui, Alsop, & Schlaug 2009: Tone deafness: a new disconnection syndrome?
October 1st 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?
Supplementary: Schellenberg, 2005: Music and Cognitive Abilities
October 8th (holiday)
October 15th mini-mid-term 1, guest lecture, project work.
October 22nd Lecture: Music and Language Progress Report due
*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 29th Lecture: Expectation & Emotion. All Press Article Critiques should be finished before this week
*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.
*Griffiths, Warren, Dean, & Howard, 2004: ‘‘When the feeling’s gone’’: a selective loss of musical emotion
*Huron, 2004: Music-engendered laughter: An analysis of humor devices in PDQ Bach
*Ch 14 of Tan: The emotional power of music
Supplementary: Trainor & Zatorre, 2009: The neurobiological basis of musical expectations.
November 5th Lecture: Neuropsychological studies and clinical applications of music
*de Bruin, Doan, Turnbull, Suchowersky, Bonfield, Hu, & Brown 2010: Walking with music is a safe and viable tool for gait training in Parkinson’s disease: the effect of a 13-week feasibility study on single and dual task walking.
*Stewart, Kriegstein, Warren & Griffiths, 2006: Music and the brain: disorders of musical listening
*Norton, Zipse, Marchina, & Schlaug, 2009: Melodic intonation therapy: shared insights on how it is done and why it might help.
November 12th mini-mid-term 2 + in-class work on project.
November 19th 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
November 26th Grant Presentations (All written proposals due at 12 pm)
December 3rd Grant Presentations (All peer reviews due at 12 pm)
* = required reading, Supplementary reading is strongly recommended but not required.
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
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)
What is critical thinking? It's not just criticizing...
Here are links on some of the errors I note in written assignments:
Dangling or Misplaced modifier
Run-on (sentence)
Wordy
Parallel structure
Bem, D.J. Writing the Empirical Journal Article, from the Compleat Academic (read the whole book if you are contemplating a grad career)
What is critical thinking? It's not just criticizing...
Here are links on some of the errors I note in written assignments:
Dangling or Misplaced modifier
Run-on (sentence)
Wordy
Parallel structure
Video Links
Full Video |
Video Shorts from 'Notes and Neurons' |
Press Articles (even better is to find your own)
Childhood music lessons improve hearing in adults
Another version: Music lessons makes children better listeners
Music has the power to shape a child's mind
Research confirms brain link for words, music
Do conductors actually DO anything?
Musical duets synchronize brains as well as rhythms
Pop music too loud, all sounds the same
Research says parrots have their own musical taste
Does listening to music while working make you less productive?
Music as medicine for the brain
Another version: Music lessons makes children better listeners
Music has the power to shape a child's mind
Research confirms brain link for words, music
Do conductors actually DO anything?
Musical duets synchronize brains as well as rhythms
Pop music too loud, all sounds the same
Research says parrots have their own musical taste
Does listening to music while working make you less productive?
Music as medicine for the brain
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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 |
| debruingaittraining2010.pdf |
| 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 |
| Koelsch et al. -2004- Music, language, and meadning: Brain signatures of semantic processing |
| 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 |
| norton_melodicintonationtherapy_nyas_04859.pdf |
| Patel -2011- Why would musical training benefit the neural encoding of speech? The OPERA hypothesis |
| 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 |
| stewart_et_al._-_2006_-_music_and_the_brain_disorders_of_musical_listening.pdf |
| 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 |
