| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 327 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Part 1: History. Historical increases in expert music performance skills: optimising instruments, playing techniques and training / Andreas C. Lehmann -- Part 2: Psychology. From cognition to action / Lutz Jäncke ; The nature of memory for music performance skills / Caroline Palmer ; Musical synchronization / Bruno H. Repp -- Part 3: Movement analysis. Hand movements and musical performance / Thomas E. Jerde, Marco Santello, Martha Flanders and John F. Soechting ; Movement analysis in pianists / Hans-Christian Jabusch ; Fingering and bowing in violinists: a motor control approach / Mario Wiesendanger, Andreas Baader and Oleg Kazennikov ; Movements and analysis of drumming / Sofia Dahl -- Part 4: Representation in the Brain. Brain structures of musicians: executive functions and morphological implications / Gottfried Schlaug ; The motor representation in pianists and string players / Lutz Jäncke ; Brain activation during piano playing / Marc Bangert ; Brain activation during string playing / Arto Nirkko and Rumyana Kristeva ; 'Singing in the (b)rain': cerebral correlates of vocal music performance in humans / Hermann Ackermann, Dirk Wildgruber and Axel Riecker ; Sensory motor networks in singing and speaking: a comparative approach / Reyna Leigh Gordon, Amelie Racette and Daniele Schon ; The role of inhibition in the motor control of finger function / Christian Gerloff and Friedhelm Hummel -- Part 5: Apollo's curse : the loss of motor control in musicians. The end of the song? Robert Schumann's focal dystonia / Eckart Altenmüeller ; Epidemiology, phenomenology and therapy of musician's cramp / Hans-Christian Jabusch and Eckart Altenmüeller ; The neurophysiology of focal hand dystonia in musicians / Karin Rosenkranz ; The development of focal dystonia in musicians as a consequence of maladaptive plasticity: implications for intervention / Nancy Byl and Alberto Priori ; Music performance anxiety / Jurg Kesselring |
| Summary |
This text 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Music -- Physiological aspects.
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Music -- Psychological aspects.
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Sensorimotor integration.
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Motor ability.
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Brain -- physiology
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Motor Skills
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Music -- psychology
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Motor ability
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Music -- Physiological aspects
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Music -- Psychological aspects
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Sensorimotor integration
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Musikpsychologie
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Musik
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Physiologie
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Motorik
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Gehirn
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Psychomotorik
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Sensorik Neurophysiologie
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Music -- Physiological aspects.
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Music -- Psychological aspects.
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Sensorimotor integration.
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Sensorik (Neurophysiologie)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Altenmüller, Eckart
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Kesselring, Jürg
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Wiesendanger, Mario
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| ISBN |
9780191700903 |
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0191700908 |
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