Music, Motor Control and the Brain

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