Advanced Independent Study | Music, Cognition, Neuroscience

Books 

● Critchley, M., & Henson, R. A. (Eds.). (1977). Music and the brain: Studies in the neurology of music. Heinemann Medical Books. 

● Donald, M. (1991). Origins of the modern mind: Three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition. Harvard University Press. 

● Ellis, H. (1923). The dance of life. Houghton Mifflin Company. Project Gutenberg. 

● Hart, M., Lieberman, F., & Sonneborn, D. A. (1991). Planet drum: A celebration of percussion and rhythm. Harper: San Francisco. 

● Hart, M., Stevens, J., & Lieberman, F. (1990). Drumming at the edge of magic: A journey into the spirit of percussion. Harper: San Francisco. 

● Rouget, G. (1985). Music and trance: A theory of the relations between music and possession. University of Chicago Press. 

● Sacks, O. (2007). Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain. Alfred A. Knopf. 

● Storr, A. (1992). Music and the mind. Free Press. 

Peer-Reviewed and Scholarly Articles 

● Beaty, R. E. (2015). The neuroscience of musical improvisation. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 51, 108–117. 

● Beaty, R. E., Benedek, M., Silvia, P. J., & Schacter, D. L. (2016). Creative cognition and brain network dynamics. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20 (2), 87–95. 

● Drake, S. (1975). The role of music in Galileo’s experiments. Scientific American, 232 (6), 98–105.

● Farbood, M. M., Heeger, D. J., Marcus, G., Hasson, U., & Lerner, Y. (2015). The neural processing of hierarchical structure in music and speech at different timescales. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, 157.  

● Limb, C. J., & Braun, A. R. (2008). Neural substrates of spontaneous musical performance: An fMRI study of jazz improvisation. PLoS ONE, 3 (2), e1679. 

● Norton, A., Zipse, L., Marchina, S., & Schlaug, G. (2009). Melodic intonation therapy: Shared insights on how it is done and why it might help. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169, 431–436. 

● Sams, M., Paavilainen, P., Alho, K., & Näätänen, R. (1985). Auditory frequency discrimination and event-related potentials. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 62(6), 437–448. 

● Vuust, P., & Witek, M. A. G. (2014). Rhythmic complexity and predictive coding: A novel approach to modeling rhythm and meter perception in music. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1111. 

Research, Neuroscience, and Clinical Resources 

● American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (n.d.). Traumatic brain injury in adults. ASHA Practice Portal. 

● Institute for Music and Neurologic Function. (n.d.). Institute for Music and Neurologic Function. 

● Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience. (n.d.). Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.  

● New York University. (n.d.). Music and Audio Research Laboratory. NYU Steinhardt. 

● NYU Langone Health. (n.d.). Aphasia & language rehabilitation research. Rusk Rehabilitation. 

● NYU Langone Health. (n.d.). Adult recreation and creative arts therapies: Music therapy. Rusk Rehabilitation. 

Film and Documentary Sources 

● Burns, R. (Director). (2019). Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. 

● Kohlberg, J. (Director). (2011). The Music Never Stopped. 

● Mannes, E. (Writer & Director). (2009). The Music Instinct: Science & Song. THIRTEEN/WNET. 

● Marshall, P. (Director). (1990). Awakenings. Columbia Pictures. 

● Raynauld, I. (Director). (2019). Tuning the Brain with Music. Bunbury Films. 

● Rossato-Bennett, M. (Director). (2014). Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory. 

● Schnabel, J. (Director). (2007). The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.