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Music, Motor Control and the Brain

Music, Motor Control and the Brain

9780199298723
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The motor actions that can be witnessed as a virtuoso musician performs can be so fast, so accomplished, so precise, as to seem somehow superhuman. The musician has to produce the movements, monitor those they have already made and the subsequent result, co-ordinate their hands, fingers, eyes, and perhaps throat and diaphragm. These achievements are of course the product of hundreds, even thousands of hours of practice - playing scales, studies, time and time again. But those hoursof practice by no means guarantee that great musicianship will result. This technical prowess has to be combined with a range of other, perhaps, less tangible qualities. This book explores the secrets of musical virtuosity. It presents a comprehensive account of music and motor cognition, examining the neural basis of music making - our understanding of which is just starting to be enhanced by brain imaging. It considers the effect on our brains of prolonged music making. It explores the motor processes across a range of instruments (vocal, string, wind, percussion) and within different performance situations. It also considers what happens when things startto go wrong - why motor problems occur in so many professional musicians in later life, and the possible therapies for such problems. Music is a topic of considerable interest within the brain sciences. With contributions from leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and neurologists, this book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of music and the brain.
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OUP Oxford
86018
9780199298723
9780199298723

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Publication date
2006
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
344
Dimensions (mm)
170 x 245
Weight (g)
637
  • Part 1: History; Historical increases in expert music performance skills: optimising instruments, playing techniques and training; Part 2: Psychology; From cognition to action; The nature of memory for music performance skills; Musical synchronization; PArt 3: Movement analysis; Hand movements and musical performance; Movement analysis in pianists; Fingering and bowing in violinists; Movements and analysis of drumming; Part 4: Representation in the Brain; Brain structures of musicians: executive functions and morphological implications; The motor representation in pianists and string players; Brain activation during piano playing; Brain activation during string playing; Singing in the (b)rain: cerebral correlates of vocal music performance in humans; Sensory-motor networks in singing and speaking: a comparative approach; Role of inhibition in motor control of finger functions; Part 5: Apollos curse - the loss of motor control in musicians; The end of the song? Robert Schumanns focal dystonia; Epidemiology, phenomenology and therapy of musicians cramp; The neurophysiology of focal hand dystonia in musicians; The development of focal dystonia in musicians as a consequence of maladaptive plasticity: implications for intervention; Music performance anxiety;
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