Book description
A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into the
effects of music on the brain
- Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception,
including musical syntax, musical semantics, music and action, music
and emotion
- Includes general introductory chapters to engage a broad
readership, as well as a wealth of detailed research material for experts
- Offers the most empirical (and most systematic) work on the topics
of neural correlates of musical syntax and musical semantics
- Integrates research from different domains (such as music,
language, action and emotion both theoretically and empirically, to
create a comprehensive theory of music psychology
Stefan
Koelsch
is Professor of Music Psychology at the Freie University Berlin. He is
a former post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School, and
led an independent Junior Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for
Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. His main areas of
research are neurocognition of music, music and emotion, and music therapy.
