Three topics are discussed: audiomotor transformations in music, the aural perception of music, and procedural learning and music syntax. Biologically, the ability to make music and enjoy it is based on the innate capacities for beat induction and relative pitch (recognition of melodic contour). The …

The transformation of music into movement takes place while dancing, singing, and playing an instrument. The human capacity for beat induction facilitates rhythmic movement to the musical beat, a capacity share with only a few animals. While Parkinson patients are limited in their locomotive abilities, …

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While improvisation is considered to be an art form, particularly in jazz, but also in eighteenth-century music, it may also be seen as an didactic instrument which can be used to develop implicit knowledge of music syntax. Two types of syntax may be distinguished: finite state grammars and hierarchical …

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Muziek is niet alleen kunst. Het berust op aangeboren eigenschappen van de mens zoals het vermogen om 'beat' waar te nemen en relatief gehoor, het vermogen om een melodie te herkennen, ongeacht de toonsoort.

A commentary on: Older adults can improve compensatory stepping with repeated postural perturbations by Dijkstra,B.W., Horak,F.B., Kamsma,Y.P.T., and Peterson,D.S.(2015).Front.AgingNeurosci. 7:201. doi:10.3389/fnagi.2015.00201. In sum, the results of Dijkstra etal. (2015) are of importance and significance …

Learning to play a music instrument might be able to improve the hearing of cochlear implant recipients. In this presentation, we report on a pilot project in which three CI recipients received music lessons from students at the conservatoire.

Heeft muziek een positief impact op hersenfunctie bij ouderen? Kan het de aanzet van geheugenverlies en dementie vertragen of zelfs verbetering veroorzaken? Studies van hersenplasticticiteit laten een effect van muziekbeoefening op hersenvolume zien. Bovendien blijkt het (procedural) muziekgeheugen veel …

The functional and anatomical distinction between vision-for-perception and vision-for-action, the hallmark of the dual-stream Perception-Action Model, is equally applicable to the auditory domain, implying that non-conscious audition-for-action could play an important role in music performance. Ear …