Re: [huml-comment] Article: Music, Emotions, and The Brain

[cognite@zianet.com]

Great lead.

associated _Science_ article; this free from University newsletter:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/dec02/melodies.shtml

In sum:

Includes Quiktime color animation of  torus movement of keys in the piece
of music used to test perception.  Selected composition by Birk shifts 
from key to key.  Shifts were tracked only by the prefrontal
cortex during NMRI in experienced musicians (used to isolate locus of
perception as rostral prefrontal cortex -- connected to temporal auditory
processes right under the ear, but Not adjacent to the corpus callosum which
communicates between the lobes.


CogSci music modeler, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences
and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.  Uses EEG, ERP, fMRI.  Publications
include study of Western Music perception by experienced musicians, and
songbird song consolidation (avia, finch -- their cerebellum is also like
ours).  
        His wife Katie Henry is a singer-songwriter (banjo, guitar) with MP3
links from the site. 
        Recent articles on CNN and in Science not shown in publications list.
Example:  Janata, P. (2001c). Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying
auditory image formation in music. In R. I. Godøy & H. Jørgensen
     (Eds.), Elements of Musical Imagery . Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers.



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Thanks, Len!
SC


At 01:09 PM 13-12-2002 -0600, you wrote:
>http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/13/music.brain.ap/index.html
<http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/13/music.brain.ap/index.html> 
> 
>An intriguing article.  Short read on CNN.com
> 
>"Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, which detects the part of the
brain active in response to specific stimuli, they found that the ability to
recognize music is contained in a centrally located area just behind the
forehead.  Janata said that part of the brain also plays a key role in
learning and in the response and control of emotions. " 
>
>Somehow I've always suspected that The Third Eye and music were related. ;-)
>
>len