A comprehensive survey of the latest neuroscientific research into
the effects of music on the brain
* Covers a variety of topics fundamental for music perception,
including musical syntax, musical semantics, music and action,
music and emotion
* Includes general introductory chapters to engage a broad
readership, as well as a wealth of detailed research material for
experts
* Offers the most empirical (and most systematic) work on the
topics of neural correlates of musical syntax and musical
semantics
* Integrates research from different domains (such as music,
language, action and emotion both theoretically and empirically, to
create a comprehensive theory of music psychology
A propos de l’auteur
Stefan Koelsch is Professor of Music Psychology at
the Freie University Berlin. He is a former post-doctoral research
fellow at Harvard Medical School, and led an independent Junior
Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and
Brain Sciences in Leipzig. His main areas of research are
neurocognition of music, music and emotion, and music
therapy.