The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music (Paperback, New)

Music offers a unique opportunity to better understand the organization of the human brain. Like language, music exists in all human societies. Like language, music is a complex, rule-governed activity that seems specific to humans, and associated with a specific brain architecture. Yet unlike most other high-level functions of the human brain - and unlike language - music is a skill at which only a minority of people become proficient. The study of music as a major brain function has for some time been relatively neglected. Just recently, however, we have witnessed an explosion in research activities on music perception and performance and their correlates in the human brain. This volume brings together an outstanding collection of international authorities - from the fields of music, neuroscience, psychology, and neurology - to describe the amazing advances being made in understanding the complex relationship between music and the brain. Aimed at psychologists and neuroscientists, this is a book that will lay the foundations for a cognitive neuroscience of music.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2003
First published:	October 2003
Editors:	Isabelle Peretz • Robert J. Zatorre
Dimensions:	204 x 107 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	466
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-852520-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Experimental psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Physiological & neuro-psychology Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Cognitive theory Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Perception Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-852520-6
Barcode:	9780198525202

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