Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation

Quora referenced this article in "What are the leading theories connecting music theory to the effect of music on the brain?" on 13 Dec 2010 at 22:30 GMT

"This question may be considered on many levels.  The processing of sound in the auditory midbrain and even auditory cortex is beginning to be understood.  These areas are specially adapted to process signals like speech and music.  These adaptions relate to the perception of musical consonance.  There is not a healthy scientific consensus in this area due to a lack of research, but good resources include: http://www.mmk.ei.tum.de/persons/ter.html http://www.purveslab.net/research/explanation/sound/sound.html http://jn.physiology.org/content/89/3/1603.full http://www.springerlink.com/content/q5864t221578l241/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11458869 http://www.cell.com/neuron/retrieve/pii/S0896627302010607 http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/7/765.full Higher up, the emotional impact of music is studied using fMRI and other techniques.  This field of inquiry is more formative.  For instance: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16078183 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/298/5601/2167.abstract http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001679 Higher still, certain music theory rules (e.g. those on voice leading) are related to results in cognitive psychology, e.g. with respect to constraints of human short-term memory.  The most famous of these is: http://www.musanim.com/miller1956/ More recent and ambitious attempts to derive music theory rules from such considerations should be considered speculative at this time."

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