Abstract Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) refers to a group of neurodevelopmental disorders
including autism, Asperger's syndrome (AS) and pervasive developmental disorder-not …

During the past ten years, an increasing number of controlled studies have assessed the
potential rehabilitative effects of music-based interventions, such as music listening, singing …

The RAVDESS is a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. The
database is gender balanced consisting of 24 professional actors, vocalizing lexically …

The most difficult clinical questions in stroke rehabilitation are “What is this patient's potential
for recovery?” and “What is the best rehabilitation strategy for this person, given her/his …

Behavioural deficits in stroke reflect both structural damage at the site of injury, and
widespread network dysfunction caused by structural, functional, and metabolic …

Whereas the cerebral cortex has long been regarded by neuroscientists as the major locus
of cognitive function, the white matter of the brain is increasingly recognized as equally …

Researchers have sought to understand how language is processed in the brain, how brain
damage affects language abilities, and what can be expected during the recovery period …

Musical training has emerged as a useful framework for the investigation of training-related
plasticity in the human brain. Learning to play an instrument is a highly complex task that …

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 …

Music has cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral and motor benefits for people with
neurological disorders such as dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease (PD) and Autism …