Emerging research over the last decade has shown that long-term music training and skill learning can be a strong stimulator for neuroplastic changes in the developing as well as adult brain. Making music places unique demands on the nervous system, leading to strong coupling of perception and action mediated by sensory, motor, and multimodal integrative regions distributed throughout the brain...

In the domain of sports and motor rehabilitation, it is of major importance to regulate and control physiological processes and physical motion in most optimal ways. For that purpose, real-time auditory feedback of physiological and physical information based on sound signals, often termed "sonification," has been proven particularly useful. However, the use of music in biofeedback systems has ...

In social settings, music selection can play an important effect on the psyche of the environment’s inhabitants. Choosing the appropriate type of music for a social environment is a complex task involving the constant appraisal of the inhabitants’ musical preferences and their changing reactions to the musical selections played. We present a socially aware music selection system that allows peo...

children's development is shaped based on a combination of environmental, organism, physiological and genetic factors. recent researches on the development of children and toddlers convincingly show that the best growth level happens in a motivating environment and a powerful support. this study aimed at evaluating the effect of an environment affordance intervention on social development ...

PURPOSE Prenatal environmental conditions affect the development of the fetus. In the present study, we investigated the effects of exposure to music and noise during pregnancy on neurogenesis and thickness in the motor and somatosensory cortex of rat pups. METHODS The pregnant rats in the music-applied group were exposed to 65 dB of comfortable music for 1 hour, once per day, from the 15th d...

Dancing and singing to music involve auditory-motor coordination and have been essential to our human culture since ancient times. Although scholars have been trying to understand the evolutionary and developmental origin of music, early human developmental manifestations of auditory-motor interactions in music have not been fully investigated. Here we report limb movements and vocalizations in...

The study of music as a complex sensory pattern involving cognitive, sensorimotor and a ffective processes in the human nervous system has received increasing attention in behavioral and brain research in the last decade. The high performance-processing features of music, its complex perceptual demands, the interplay between intrinsic talent and capacity to learn, and its strong and universal e...

Using fMRI, cerebral activations were studied in 24 classically-trained keyboard performers and 12 musically unskilled control subjects. Two groups of musicians were recruited: improvising (n=12) and score-dependent (non-improvising) musicians (n=12). While listening to both familiar and unfamiliar music, subjects either (covertly) appraised the presented music performance or imagined they were...

There are formidable problems in studying how 'real' music engages the brain over wide ranges of temporal scales extending from milliseconds to a lifetime. In this work, we recorded the magnetoencephalographic signal while subjects listened to music as it unfolded over long periods of time (seconds), and we developed and applied methods to correlate the time course of the regional brain activat...

old and modern orators have applied poetic formats to express their concerns in a beautiful manner since the music and rhythm of poetry makes the content more effective.the phenomenon of poetry is not exclusive to any special civilization but rather exists in all nations.bedouins have an innate interest in poetry due to the environment of the desert which is very imaginative.the present article...