Michael H. Thaut serves as Director of the Music and Health Research Collaboratory and holds professorships in music, neuroscience, and rehabilitation science at the University of Toronto, Canada. He was awarded a TIER I CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR in 2017. He is the author of over 200 research publications and author/editor of 7 books. He is past President of the Society for Clinical Neuromusicology, Vice President of the International Society for Music and Medicine, and serves on the Management Committee of the World Federation of Neurorehabilitation. His internationally recognized pioneering research has advanced the basic and clinical neuroscience of music which also has become the scientific foundation for the development of Neurologic Music Therapy as a new treatment model in brain rehabilitation.

Donald A. Hodges served as Covington Distinguished Professor of Music Education and Director of the Music Research Institute (2003-2013) and is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Hodges is the author of A Concise Survey of Music Philosophy (2017), co-author of Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology (2011), contributing editor of the Handbook of Music Psychology and the accompanying Multimedia Companion (1980, 1996), co-editor of Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain (2019), co-editor of Routledge International Handbook on Music Psychology in Education and the Community across the Lifecourse (forthcoming), and author of numerous papers in music psychology and music education. Recent research efforts have included a series of brain imaging studies of pianists, conductors, and singers using PET and fMRI

• Section I. Introduction


• 1: Michael H. Thaut and Donald A. Hodges: The Neuroscientific Study of Music: A New Discipline


• Section II. Music, the Brain, and Cultural Contexts


• 2: Michael H. Thaut and Donald A. Hodges: Music through the Lens of Cultural Neuroscience


• 3: Steve J. Morrison, Steven M. Demorest, and Marcus T. Pearce: Cultural Distance: A computational approach to exploring cultural influences on music cognition


• 4: Bjorn Merker: When extravagance impresses: Recasting esthetics in evolutionary terms


• Section III. Music processing in The Human Brain


• 5: Thenille Braun Janzen and Michael H. Thaut: Cerebral Organization of Music Processing


• 6: Robin W. Wilkins: Network Neuroscience: An Introduction to Graph Theory Network-Based Techniques for Music and Brain Imaging Research


• 7: Mike Schutz: Acoustic structure and musical function: Musical notes informing auditory research


• 8: Christina M Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden, Eric T. Taylor, and Jessica A. Grahn: Neural Basis of Rhythm Perception


• 9: Stefan Koelsch: Neural Basis of Music Perception: Pitch, Harmony, and Timbre


• 10: Frank Russo: Multisensory Processing in Music


• Section IV. Neural Responses to Music: Cognition, Affect, Language


• 11: Lutz Jäncke: Music and Memory


• 12: Psyche Loui and Rachel Guetta: Music and attention, executive function, and creativity


• 13: Patrik N. Juslin and Laura S. Sakka: Neural Correlates of Music and Emotion


• 14: Yuko Koshimori: Neurochemical Responses to Music


• 15: Elvira Brattico: The neuroaesthetics of music: A research agenda coming of age


• 16: Daniele Schön and Benjamin Morillon: Music and Language


• Section V. Musicianship and Brain Function


• 17: Virginia B. Penhune: Musical Expertise and Brain Structure: The causes and consequences of training


• 18: Irma Järvelä: Genomics approaches for studying musical aptitude and related traits


• 19: Eckart Altenmüller, Shinichi Furuya, Daniel S. Scholz, and Christos I. Ioannou: Brain Research in Music Performance


• 20: Aaron Berkowitz and Michael G. Erkkinen: Brain Research in Music Improvisation


• 21: Timothy L. Hubbard: Neural mechanisms of musical imagery


• 22: Vesa Putkinen and Mari Tervaniemi: Neuroplasticity in Music Learning


• Section VI. Development al Issues in Music and the Brain


• 23: Anthony Brandt, L. Robert Slevc, and Molly Gebrian: The Role of Musical Development in Early Language Acquisition


• 24: Laurel J Trainor and Susan Marsh-Rollo: Rhythm, Meter, and Timing: The heartbeat of musical development


• 25: L. Ferreri, A. Moussard, E. Bigand, and B. Tillmann: Music and the Aging Brain


• 26: Swathi Swaminathan and E. Glenn Schellenberg: Music Training and Cognitive Abilities: Associations, Causes, and Consequences


• 27: Adam Ockelford: The Neuroscience of Children on the Autism Spectrum with Exceptional Musical Abilities


• Section VII. Music, the Brain, and Health


• 28: Corene Thaut and Klaus Martin Stephan: Music and Sensorimotor Functions


• 29: Yune Lee, Corene Thaut, and Charlene Santoni: Music-Induced Speech and Language Rehabilitation


• 30: Shantala Hegde: Neurologic Music Therapy to target Cognitive and Affective Functions


• 31: Isabelle Royal, Sébastien Paquette, and Pauline Tranchant: Musical Disorders


• 32: David Peterson: When blue turns to grey: the enigma of musician's dystonia


• Section VII. The Future


• 33: Michael H. Thaut and Donald A. Hodges: New Horizons for Brain Research in Music