Music and the Mind Machine

I. Musical Expression and Comprehension.- Convergent Research Methods in Music Cognition.- Fundamental Factors of Music Comprehension.- Beginning of Human Musicality.- Expressive Intention and Performance.- Expressive Aspects of Instrumental and Vocal Performance.- The Two Steps of the Categorization Process in Music Listening An Approach of the Cue Extraction Mechanism as Modular System.- The Zürich Performance Workstation Project - An Overview.- II. Music Physiology and Pathophysiology.- Music Perception in the Auditory Hierarchy.- Neuronal Response in Limbic and Neocortical Structures During Perception of Consonances and Dissonances.- Neural Nets and Music Cognition.- What Does the Visual Information Contained in Music Performances Offer the Observer? Some Preliminary Thoughts.- Tone Discrimination in Patients with Temporal Lobe Lesions.- Music Processing After Brain Damage: The Case of Rhythm Without Melody.- Immune Parameters, Musical Abilities, and Anomalous Dominance.- III. Music Psychopathology.- The Psychopathology of the Sense of Music.- Music Perception and Preference in the Course of Mental Diseases.- The Reality of Musical Delusions.- Aggression And Autoaggression in the Opera.- Dramatization of Madness in the Opera: SALOMÈ, by Richard Strauss.- Can Strong Experiences of Music Have Therapeutic Implications?.- IV. Brain Imaging and Music.- EEG in Music Psychological Studies.- How Consistent are Changes in EEG Coherence Patterns Elicited by Music Perception.- Motor Cortical Fields and Rhythmic Coordination of The Hands in Music Performance.- DC-EEG, MEG and FMRI as Investigational Tools for Music Processing.- Music and SPECT.- EEG Mapping During Music Perception and MRI Data in Psychiatric Patients.