| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 411 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
History, anecdotes, correlations, and interviews -- Spatial-temporal and language-analytic reasoning in learning math and science -- Music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning -- Implications : scientific, educational, clinical -- Symmetry as a common theme -- Introduction to the brain : basic brain features and brain imaging -- Mountcastle theory of mammalian cortex : internal neural language of higher brain function -- Trion model and symmetries -- Trion music : reasoning and creativity -- Trion model of higher brain function : prediction that music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning -- Highly accurate mental rehearsals : correlation with top performance in sports -- Listening to Mozart sonata (K.448) enhances spatial-temporal reasoning : the "Mozart effect" -- Music training enhances spatial-temporal reasoning in preschool children -- Music training plus spatial-temporal training equals improved math -- EEG and fMRI studies of the Mozart effect -- Symmetry in Primate higher brain function -- Musical structure of the internal neural language of the brain : using music as the rosetta stone to help decode this internal language -- Animal behavior while listening to music and doing higher brain functions -- Child brain development and adult brain reorganization -- Education : music training plus spatial-temporal training improves math -- Clinical implications -- The spatial-temporal thinking machine -- Thoughts -- Science updates and breakthroughs -- Revolution in math education |
| Summary |
The demand for math and science skills in our technology-driven world is at a premium, and yet U.S. students continue to lag behind many other industrialized countries in these areas. This book, based on studies conducted on 8000 elementary school-aged children, proposes that not only is there a relationship between music and math comprehension, but that music can be utilized to heighten higher brain function and improve math skills. The enclosed CD-Rom includes (1) a recording of Allegro con spirito from Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu, courtesy of Sony ClassicalTM, and (2) a descriptive interactive version of S.T.A.R. TM (Spatial-Temporal Animation Reasoning) software program. While this book's discussion of the breakthroughs in understanding of spatial-temporal reasoning abilities will be of particular interest to neuroscientists and cognitive researchers, the book is also accessible to parents and educators. * Presents the theory that music exercises higher brain function and can enhance math comprehension * Details how music training coupled with special-temporal reasoning (thinking in pictures) can dramatically impact a child's ability to understand and master math * Includes an interactive CD-ROM with math games |
| Notes |
CD-ROM includes a recording of Allegro con spirito from Sonata for two pianos in D major (K. 448) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu and an interactive illustrative version of the S.T.A.R. (Spatial Temporal Animation Reasoning) software by Matthew Peterson |
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Previous edition: 1999 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-400) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Music therapy.
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Music.
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Higher Nervous Activity -- physiology
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Music Therapy
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Space Perception -- physiology
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Time Perception -- physiology
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Music
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Learning -- physiology
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music (discipline)
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MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Occupational Therapy.
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Music
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Music therapy
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| Genre/Form |
Music
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Music.
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Musique.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Peterson, Matthew.
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| ISBN |
1423742702 |
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9781423742708 |
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9780126390612 |
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0126390614 |
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