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Neural Plasticity in a French Horn Player with Bilateral Amelia
Precise control of movement and timing play a key role in musical performance. This motor skill requires coordination across multiple joints, muscles, and limbs, which is acquired through extensive musical training from childhood on.
Daniel S. Scholz +4 more
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The surgeon and the musician☆ [PDF]
These two quotations encapsulate my personal thinking about music. I cannot imagine my life without listening to music most of the time. Being both a surgeon and an amateur musician, I have been, for a long time, intrigued by the potential relations between medicine and music (Fig. 1). Indeed there have been in history, many famous people who were both
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Efficiency of attentional networks in musicians and non-musicians [PDF]
Music is a complex and properly human skill. Previous studies indicate that systematic musical training induces specific structural brain changes and improves audio-motor functions. However, whether these benefits can transfer into functional improvements of attentional skills is still little known.
David Medina, Paulo Barraza
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I have been asked to add further details of my observations of musicians' ears, together with some of the statistics I have gathered. It will be best to place these details first, as an introduction to this new subject.
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The importance of including performance-related body mechanics into music education to improve performance quality and prevent performance-related injuries has been stressed by many researchers recently.
Anna Détári, Tina Margareta Nilssen
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Background Recent studies indicate increased autistic traits in musicians with absolute pitch and a higher proportion of absolute pitch in people with autism.
T. Wenhart +3 more
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Differences in motor inhibition in young and older musicians and non-musicians at rest
IntroductionOlder adults experience a decline in motor inhibition. These declines have been implicated in instrumental activities of daily living. However, studies have revealed that older musicians have behavioral and neurophysiological enhancements in ...
Patricia Izbicki +3 more
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Absolute pitch, the ability to name or produce a musical tone without a reference, is a rare ability which is often related to early musical training and genetic components.
Teresa Wenhart +3 more
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Health Education for Musicians [PDF]
Context and aims: Many musicians suffer for their art, and health is often compromised during training. The Health Promotion in Schools of Music (HPSM) project has recommended that health education should be included in core curricula, although few such courses have been evaluated to date.
Matei, R +3 more
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