Research in music is a multidisciplinary matter. Experts from very different fields in science report the most recent data from their own research and thereby show today's knowledge concerning music and neuropsychological sciences. This includes the developing and adult brain, neurological and psychiatric diseases as well as the battery of the most recent development in brain imaging techniques.
This book offers an excellent introduction to new scientific efforts in understanding both neuronal and psychic mechanisms when listening to or performing music.

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.