Altenmuller, Eckart - Music, Motor Control and the Brain

This book examines the neural basis of musicianship and forms a comprehensive account of the motor skills and associated cognitive processes which are behind musical talent. It covers a range of instruments and performance situations, and examines motor problems in musicians in later life.

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CONTENTS

Part 1: History
1 Andreas C. Lehmann: Historical increases in expert music performance skills: optimising instruments, playing techniques and training
Part 2: Psychology
2 Lutz Jancke: From cognition to action
3 Caroline Palmer: The nature of memory for music performance skills
4 Bruno Repp: Musical synchronization
PArt 3: Movement analysis
5 Thomas E. Jerde, Marco Santello, Martha Flanders & John F. Soechting: Hand movements and musical performance
6 Hans-Christian Jabusch: Movement analysis in pianists
7 Mario Wiesendanger, Andreas Baader & Oleg Kazennikov: Fingering and bowing in violinists
8 Sofia Dahl: Movements and analysis of drumming
Part 4: Representation in the Brain
9 Gottfried Schlaug: Brain structures of musicians: executive functions and morphological implications
10 Lutz Jancke: The motor representation in pianists and string players
11 Marc Bangert: Brain activation during piano playing
12 Arto Nirkko & Rumyana Kristeva: Brain activation during string playing
13 Hermann Ackermann, Dirk Wildgruber & Axel Riecker: 'Singing in the (b)rain': cerebral correlates of vocal music performance in humans
14 Reyna Leigh Gordon, Amelie Racette & Daniele Schon: Sensory-motor networks in singing and speaking: a comparative approach
15 Christian Gerloff & Friedhelm Hummel: Role of inhibition in motor control of finger functions
Part 5: Apollo's curse - the loss of motor control in musicians
16 Eckart Altenmueller: The end of the song? Robert Schumann's focal dystonia
17 Hans-Christian Jabusch & Eckart Altenmueller: Epidemiology, phenomenology and therapy of musician's cramp
18 Karin Rosenkranz: The neurophysiology of focal hand dystonia in musicians
19 Nancy Byl & Alberto Priori: The development of focal dystonia in musicians as a consequence of maladaptive plasticity: implications for intervention
20 Jurg Kesselring: Music performance anxiety