Now there is the new, updated and significantly expanded edition of <em>Hemisfärernas music. About music processing in the brain.</em>
Fagius, Jan
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Now there is the new, updated and significantly expanded edition of Hemisfärernas music. About music processing in the brain.
The human brain has created the phenomenon of music, which exerts a strong attraction on us and constitutes an important ingredient of human culture. How does the brain do this – what happens when we listen to or practice music? And where - is there a specialized music center in the brain? Does the brain handle musical processes in different ways in the musically untrained and in the professional musician? How does a brain injury affect musicality? Are we all born with the same basic musical ability or are some of us congenitally tone deaf? Music evokes emotions - what happens in the brain then? The "Mozart effect" is said to make us more intelligent by dealing with and listening to Mozart's music - could it be true? Why do we have music – does music add any specific biological survival value?
The functions of the brain are in some respects well mapped. The place of musical ability in the brain is less well understood than our linguistic ability, but there is extensive research on the brain and music.
This book seeks to provide an easy-to-read exposé of the knowledge of what happens in the brain when music is playing. The book is primarily aimed at an interested public, but for those who wish to delve deeper there is a rich bibliography.
Since the first edition of Music of the Hemispheres was published in 2001, research in this area has made great progress. Not least, functional imaging techniques have shown increasingly clearly where and how the music experience is created. Comparative studies of music and language have added new knowledge. Differences between music readers and improvisational musicians have been mapped. And the brain registers a misplay even before it is a fact! We feel good and perhaps become healthier from singing and playing music - and recent research supports the belief that practicing music increases our mental ability in other areas as well. In this significantly expanded new edition, Jan Fagius also reports on the exciting findings of recent years.
Jan Fagius is a doctor, associate professor of neurology at the University Hospital in Uppsala, active for many years as a clinical neurologist, educator and researcher. He is also a dedicated amateur musician and has extensive experience as a choir singer. This combination has led to an interest in the research on the "neurology of music", which he followed and conveyed in a popularized form, partly as a frequently hired lecturer, partly with the first edition from 2001 of this book. He has also published textbooks in neurology and on the disease MS.
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