Music has cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral and motor benefits for people with neurological disorders such as dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease (PD) and Autism …
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …
This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what …
CY Wan, G Schlaug - The Neuroscientist, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory, and motor experience that usually commences at an early age and requires the acquisition and maintenance of a range of …
AFC Hamilton - Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2013 - Elsevier
There is much interest in the claim that dysfunction of the mirror neuron system in individuals with autism spectrum condition causes difficulties in social interaction and communication …
GF Halwani, P Loui, T Rüber, G Schlaug - Frontiers in psychology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Structure and function of the human brain are affected by training in both linguistic and musical domains. Individuals with intensive vocal musical training provide a useful model for …
SM Srinivasan, AN Bhat - Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The rising incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) has led to a surge in the number of children needing autism interventions. This paper is a call to clinicians to diversify autism …
CY Wan, T Rüber, A Hohmann, G Schlaug - Music perception, 2010 - online.ucpress.edu
MUSIC MAKING (PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT OR SINGING) is a multimodal activity that involves the integration of auditory and sensorimotor processes. The ability to sing in …
G Lai, SP Pantazatos, H Schneider, J Hirsch - Brain, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Despite language disabilities in autism, music abilities are frequently preserved. Paradoxically, brain regions associated with these functions typically overlap, enabling …