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Dr. Artur C Jaschke
ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Music Therapy, Faculty Member
- Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, Department MemberUniversity Medical Center Groningen, Neonatology, Department Memberadd
- Clinical Neuroscience, Paediatrics, Creative AI, Music Therapy, Improvisation, Music Cognition, and 44 moreNeural Development, Systems Neuroscience, Neuromusicology, Neuropsychology, Neuroimaging, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz, Creativity, Interaction, Sociology of Cutlure, Clinical Neuropsychology, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Music, Music Education, Child Development, Music Psychology, Neurology, Jazz Studies, Psychology of Music, Gustav Mahler studies, Music and the Brain, Gustav Mahler, Neuroscience, Public Health, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Behavioral Decision Making, Traumatic Brain Injury, Philosophy, Psychology, Evolutionary Biology, Epistemology, Musicology, Music Theory, Complex Systems Science, Musical Composition, Complexity Theory, Systems Theory, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Neuroscience, Human Evolution, Evolution, Consciousness, Autism Spectrum Treatment, and Paediatrics & Child Healthedit
- Currently, he is Reader (Lector) Music-based Therapies and Interventions and in Ecologies of clinical Neuromusicology... moreCurrently, he is Reader (Lector) Music-based Therapies and Interventions and in Ecologies of clinical Neuromusicology: creative AI, Music Sciences and Health Care Applications at the department of Music Therapy at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Enschede the Netherlands, specialising in the interrelation of music, technology and brain maturation in clinical and non clinical populations as well as Research Fellow cognitive neuroscience of music at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University Medical Center Groningen and the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research (UK).
Further he is member of
Editorial Board Member Music and Medicine
Review Editorial Frontiers in Neuroscience
The European Society for Paediatrics
The British Society for Neuroscience
The European Society for the Cognitive Sciences Of Music (ESCOM)
The Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC)
The Gustav Mahler Stichting Nedeedit
BackgroundAn increasingly 24/7 connected and urbanised world has created a silent pandemic of noise-induced hearing loss. Ensuring survival to children born (extremely) preterm is crucial. The incubator is a closed medical device,... more
BackgroundAn increasingly 24/7 connected and urbanised world has created a silent pandemic of noise-induced hearing loss. Ensuring survival to children born (extremely) preterm is crucial. The incubator is a closed medical device, modifying the internal climate, and thus providing an environment for the child, as safe, warm, and comfortable as possible. While sound outside the incubator is managed and has decreased over the years, managing the noise inside the incubator is still a challenge.MethodUsing active noise cancelling in an incubator will eliminate unwanted sounds (i.e., from the respirator and heating) inside the incubator, and by adding sophisticated algorithms, normal human speech, neonatal intensive care unit music-based therapeutic interventions, and natural sounds will be sustained for the child in the pod. Applying different methods such as active noise cancelling, motion capture, sonological engineering. and sophisticated machine learning algorithms will be implement...
This article will elaborate on the cognitive and neurological aspects when listening to Mahler’s’ music. It will concentrate on how the music of Mahler is perceived in the brain and what the underlying cognitive functions are, which make... more
This article will elaborate on the cognitive and neurological aspects when listening to Mahler’s’ music. It will concentrate on how the music of Mahler is perceived in the brain and what the underlying cognitive functions are, which make it an unique experience every time again. It will guide the reader through a simplified and explained journey of the human brain with Mahler’s music in mind. There is more to Mahler than one believes to perceive in the first instance and this article is aimed at shining light into those underlying mechanisms of perception, processing and stimulation.
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Interventions such as kangaroo care (KC) and live-performed music therapy (LPMT), are increasingly used to facilitate stress reduction in neonates. This study aims to investigate the effect of combining the two on physiological responses... more
Interventions such as kangaroo care (KC) and live-performed music therapy (LPMT), are increasingly used to facilitate stress reduction in neonates. This study aims to investigate the effect of combining the two on physiological responses and neurological functioning in very preterm infants. Infants received six sessions of LPMT. KC was added to one LPMT session. Physiological responses included heart rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation. We videotaped infants for 30 min before and after two sessions to assess general movements (GMs). We included 17 infants, gestational age median 26.0 weeks (IQR 25.6–30.6 weeks), of whom six were males. Combined interventions showed a decrease in heart rate from mean 164 bpm before to 157 bpm during therapy, p = 0.001. Oxygen saturation levels increased during combination therapy from median 91.4% to 94.5%, p = 0.044. We found no effects of LPMT or combined interventions on GMs. Infants with a postnatal age (PNA) <7 days generally seem to...
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Having an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) elicits maternal anxiety, which may hamper parent−child bonding. We performed a prospective cohort study to describe anxiety in mothers of infants born before 30 weeks of... more
Having an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) elicits maternal anxiety, which may hamper parent−child bonding. We performed a prospective cohort study to describe anxiety in mothers of infants born before 30 weeks of gestation during NICU stay in The Netherlands, and investigated the influence of infant stress and gestational age. Second, we performed a randomized-controlled live-performed music therapy trial (LPMT trial) to investigate whether music therapy applied to the infant alleviated maternal anxiety. The relation between infant stress, gestational age, and maternal anxiety was measured in 45 mother−infant dyads, using the Neonatal Infant Stressor Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). The effect of LPMT on anxiety was assessed in 21 mothers whose infants were assigned to either LPMT (n = 12) or waitlist (n = 9). Mothers completed the STAI before and after this period. Maternal anxiety decreased over time in all mothers, and was strongly related wit...
Research Interests: Music Therapy, Medicine, Multidisciplinary, Distress, Anxiety, and 15 moreChildren, Environmental public health, Care, Symptoms, Mothers, Parents, Outcomes, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, ANXIETY, Postpartum Anxiety, Preterm infants, Gestational Age, Gestation, Maternal Anxiety, and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can present with changes in music appreciation. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and nature of music appreciation phenotypes among FTD syndromes in a memory clinic population.
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Change is inevitable to every profession. While we learn from the mistakes in the past, we should not lose sight of the developments which lie ahead. In this narrative review, we consider the different theoretical but more so practical... more
Change is inevitable to every profession. While we learn from the mistakes in the past, we should not lose sight of the developments which lie ahead. In this narrative review, we consider the different theoretical but more so practical and clinical mechanisms and uses of music technology in music therapy. We assemble relevant findings from a broad range of complimentary data, comprising published as well as unpublished research, clinical rapports, practical experience and self-rapports from clinicians, researchers, and practitioners worldwide. In addition, we have conducted a systematic search of the following databases: PubMed, MedLine, Jstor, ScienceDirect, EMBASe as well as academic theses and hand searches. Giving the relatively small amount of literature available on the topic of music technology in music therapy, true meta-analysis or systematic review were not possible. This narrative review aims at answering the importance of 1) the changing music therapy field; 2) the use o...
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Music activates a wide array of neural areas involved in different functions besides the perception, processing and execution of music itself. Understanding musical processes in the brain has had multiple implications in the neuro- and... more
Music activates a wide array of neural areas involved in different functions besides the perception, processing and execution of music itself. Understanding musical processes in the brain has had multiple implications in the neuro- and health sciences. Engaging the brain with a multisensory stimulus such as music activates responses beyond the temporal lobe. Brain networks involve the frontal lobes, parietal lobes, the limbic system such as the Amygdala, Hippocampus and thalamus, the cerebellum and the brainstem. Nonetheless, there has been no attempt to summarise all involved brain areas in music into one overall encompassing map. This may well be, as there has been no thorough theory introduced, which would allow an initial point of departure in creating such a atlas. A thorough systematic review has been therefore conducted together with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify all mentioned neural connection involved in the perception, processing and execution of...
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Music activates a wide array of brain areas involved in different functions such as perception, processing and execution of music. Understanding musical processes in the brain has multiple implications in the neuro- and health... more
Music activates a wide array of brain areas involved in different functions such as perception, processing and execution of music. Understanding musical processes in the brain has multiple implications in the neuro- and health sciences. Challenging the brain with a multisensory stimulus such as music activates responses beyond the auditory cortex of the temporal lobe. Other areas that are involved include the frontal lobes, parietal lobes, areas of the limbic system such as the amygdala, hippocampus and thalamus, the cerebellum and the brainstem. Nonetheless, there has been no attempt to summarize all involved brain areas in music into one overall encompassing map. This may well be, as there has been no thorough theory introduced, which would allow an initial point of departure in creating such a mapTherefore, a thorough systematic review has been conducted to identify all mentioned neural connections involved in the perception, processing and execution of music. Communication b...
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Music therapy is a novel intervention that may minimize neonatal stress. The mechanism of action is still largely unknown. We hypothesized that one mechanism of action regards altered brain oxygenation (either due to altered cerebral... more
Music therapy is a novel intervention that may minimize neonatal stress. The mechanism of action is still largely unknown. We hypothesized that one mechanism of action regards altered brain oxygenation (either due to altered cerebral perfusion or altered cerebral oxygen consumption). We measured cerebral oxygenation before, during and after music therapy sessions using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS). We extracted data on cerebral oxygen saturation (rcSO2) and calculated cerebral fractional tissue oxygen extraction (cFTOE). In addition, we measured heart rate. We included 20 infants, receiving 44 music therapy sessions. Median gestational age was 27 weeks, the majority were males. We identified two distinct reactions: in one group rcSO2 increased and cFTOE decreased during therapy compared with before therapy, whereas in the other group rcSO2 decreased and cFTOE increased during therapy compared with before therapy. The first may indicate a sedative effect, whereas the second may ...
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Research Interests: Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Neuropsychology, Music, Art Therapy, and 10 moreNeuromusicology, Music Therapy, Intellectual Disability, Everyday Life, Psychological Intervention, Active Listening, Musictherapy, Guidance and Counseling Intervention Programs, Neuroscience & Neurology, and Clinical Neuromusicology
Far transfer between music education and other cognitive skills, such as academic achievement, has been widely examined. However, the results of studies within similar cognitive domains are found to be inconclusive or contradictory. These... more
Far transfer between music education and other cognitive skills, such as academic achievement, has been widely examined. However, the results of studies within similar cognitive domains are found to be inconclusive or contradictory. These differences can be traced back to the analytical methods used, differences in the forms of music education studied and differences in neural activation during the processing of these tasks. In order to gain a better picture of the relationships involved, a literature survey was performed in leading databases, such as PubMed/MedLine, psychINFO, ScienceDirect, Embase, ERIC, ASSIA and Jstor from January 2001 to January 2013. All studies included, concerned the far transfer from music education to other cognitive skills in children aged 4-13 years as compared with controls. These studies were independently selected and their quality was assessed by two authors. This systematic review shows the need to address methodological and analytical questions in ...
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This paper seeks to combine the notion of the Empathising-Systemising (E-S) theory and the resulting twist from the executive dysfunction theory in autism spectrum conditions (ASC) in light of music intervention as system. To achieve... more
This paper seeks to combine the notion of the Empathising-Systemising (E-S) theory and the resulting twist from the executive dysfunction theory in autism spectrum conditions (ASC) in light of music intervention as system. To achieve these points it will be important to re-visit, nonetheless briefly, the above mentioned theories and re-define music intervention in the light of these. Furthermore there is the need to adjust the executive dysfunction theory to a theory of dysfunctioning executive functions. These notions will create a different understanding of music intervention in this context, allowing the development of future and existing music intervention programs applied clinically. These applications will evolve around a structuralised approach to music intervention as system, proposing five consecutive systems. It will therefore argue the aspects of expanding existing theories in ASC together with the call for generalised interventions to better assess autism from a theoretical point of view. Theories have to be updated in a time of fast and ever-changing development.
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&amp;quot;AIMS Quality assessment of studies is essential for the understanding and application of these in systematic reviews and meta analyses, the two “gold standards” of medical sciences. Publications in scientific journals have... more
&amp;quot;AIMS Quality assessment of studies is essential for the understanding and application of these in systematic reviews and meta analyses, the two “gold standards” of medical sciences. Publications in scientific journals have extensively used assessment scales to address poor methodological quality, forming inclusion criteria or determine sensitivity of controls. Even though these assessments are commonplace in science publications, there is no scale, which assesses the quality of studies in the vast amount of music related sciences. METHODS Musiquas is based on the widely used Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomized studies in meta-analyses and was attuned by the authors to fit the demand of quality assessment in music studies and interventions. Initially 37 scoring points were included into the scale, distributed across the four main groups; Selection, Control criteria, Exposure and Outcome. These points were included from music studies addressing the importance of aspects in a methodological context and were compared against points used in the NOS excluding points showing methodological flaws against experimental studies as well as against the NOS. OUTCOMES The final scale assesses the quality of music studies and intervention on 26 points divided over the four main groups: Selection, Control criteria, Exposure and Outcome applying a 10-point rating. IMPLICATIONS Implications for sciences in music are obvious; from being able to assign more methodological value to a study to implications important for policy makers. Musiquas was published online, prior to this article, to make it available to researchers worldwide. This procedure gives insight into face and content validity of Musiquas, by receiving comments and critiques of fellow researchers. Evaluation of all remarks is currently in progress. Additionally, Musiquas was piloted in a systematic review on the relationship of music and the transfer effect (Jaschke et al., submitted). &amp;quot;
Research Interests: Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Music, Music Education, Musicology, and 11 morePsychology of Music, Art Therapy, Music Psychology, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Neuromusicology, Music Cognition, Creative Arts Therapy, Music Therapy, Music Perception and Cognition, Music and Medicine, and Autism Spectrum Treatment
Background: Research on the effects of music education on cognitive abilities has generated increasing interest across the scientific community. Nonetheless, longitudinal studies investigating the effects of structured music education on... more
Background: Research on the effects of music education on cognitive abilities has generated increasing interest across the scientific community. Nonetheless, longitudinal studies investigating the effects of structured music education on cognitive sub-functions are still rare. Prime candidates for investigating a relationship between academic achievement and music education appear to be executive functions such as planning, working memory and inhibition.
Method: 147 primary school children, Mage= 6.4 years, SD=.65 were followed for 2.5 years. Participants were randomised into four groups: two music intervention groups, one active visual arts group and a no arts control group.
Neuropsychological tests assessed verbal intelligence and executive functions. Additionally, a national pupil monitor provided data on academic performance.
Results: Children in the visual arts group perform better on visuospatial memory tasks as compared to the three other conditions. However, the test scores on inhibition, planning and verbal intelligence increased significantly in the two music groups over time as compared to the visual art and no arts controls. Mediation analysis with executive functions and verbal IQ as mediator for academic performance have shown a possible far transfer effect from executive sub-function to academic performance scores.
Discussion: The present results indicate a positive influence of long-term music education on cognitive abilities such as inhibition and planning. Of note, following a two-and-a-half year long visual arts program significantly improves scores on a visuospatial memory task. All results combined, this study supports a far transfer effect from music education to academic achievement mediated by executive sub-functions.
Method: 147 primary school children, Mage= 6.4 years, SD=.65 were followed for 2.5 years. Participants were randomised into four groups: two music intervention groups, one active visual arts group and a no arts control group.
Neuropsychological tests assessed verbal intelligence and executive functions. Additionally, a national pupil monitor provided data on academic performance.
Results: Children in the visual arts group perform better on visuospatial memory tasks as compared to the three other conditions. However, the test scores on inhibition, planning and verbal intelligence increased significantly in the two music groups over time as compared to the visual art and no arts controls. Mediation analysis with executive functions and verbal IQ as mediator for academic performance have shown a possible far transfer effect from executive sub-function to academic performance scores.
Discussion: The present results indicate a positive influence of long-term music education on cognitive abilities such as inhibition and planning. Of note, following a two-and-a-half year long visual arts program significantly improves scores on a visuospatial memory task. All results combined, this study supports a far transfer effect from music education to academic achievement mediated by executive sub-functions.
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Abstract Background: Music intervention gains increasing evidence throughout the literature. Objective: This study investigated to what extent music intervention is applied in a structured way to people with a form of intellectual... more
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Background: Music intervention gains increasing evidence throughout the
literature.
Objective: This study investigated to what extent music intervention is applied in
a structured way to people with a form of intellectual disability, and whether its
application is related to agitation, repetitive behaviour, and quality of life.
Method: Consequently, a survey was administered analysing to what extent
music is applied, and whether it is applied in the context of agitation, repetitive
behaviour, and quality of life.
Results: A first finding is that clients are exposed to music daily - 2,5 h-3 h of
music listening per day - without a specific purpose, i.e. not specifically to reduce
e.g. agitation. Furthermore the results show low levels of agitation and repetitive
behaviour as well as high quality of life.
Conclusions: Music interventions - passively or actively - remain an important part
of a clients’ everyday life. Nonetheless, more research is needed to show more
compelling and clear results.
Keywords: Music therapy, Music intervention, Intellectual disability, Agitation,
Quality of life, Repetitive behavior
Background: Music intervention gains increasing evidence throughout the
literature.
Objective: This study investigated to what extent music intervention is applied in
a structured way to people with a form of intellectual disability, and whether its
application is related to agitation, repetitive behaviour, and quality of life.
Method: Consequently, a survey was administered analysing to what extent
music is applied, and whether it is applied in the context of agitation, repetitive
behaviour, and quality of life.
Results: A first finding is that clients are exposed to music daily - 2,5 h-3 h of
music listening per day - without a specific purpose, i.e. not specifically to reduce
e.g. agitation. Furthermore the results show low levels of agitation and repetitive
behaviour as well as high quality of life.
Conclusions: Music interventions - passively or actively - remain an important part
of a clients’ everyday life. Nonetheless, more research is needed to show more
compelling and clear results.
Keywords: Music therapy, Music intervention, Intellectual disability, Agitation,
Quality of life, Repetitive behavior
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Maandag zijn de eindexamens begonnen. Laatstejaars van de middelbare school duiken weer de studieboeken in om straks met een diploma de school uit te kunnen huppelen. Veel van hen studeren met muziek op de achtergrond. Maar welke muziek... more
Maandag zijn de eindexamens begonnen. Laatstejaars van de middelbare school duiken weer de studieboeken in om straks met een diploma de school uit te kunnen huppelen. Veel van hen studeren met muziek op de achtergrond. Maar welke muziek luisteren ze dan? En hoe efficiënt is het nou eigenlijk?
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Aangezien je nu present bent op de muziekwebsite Noisey ga ik er voor het gemak van uit dat je – net als wij – muziek reteleuk vindt. Het maakt een feestje, het maakt je dag en het helpt je over die ex heen te komen. Maar wat gebeurt er... more
Aangezien je nu present bent op de muziekwebsite Noisey ga ik er voor het gemak van uit dat je – net als wij – muziek reteleuk vindt. Het maakt een feestje, het maakt je dag en het helpt je over die ex heen te komen. Maar wat gebeurt er eigenlijk in ons brein als we muziek horen? Waarom luisteren we in godsnaam naar depressieve, droevige muziek als we ons al ongelukkig voelen? En hoe kan het dat die ene track je altijd in de partymood brengt?
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Wat is het effect van muziek op de hersenen? Dit artikel probeert dat op een heldere manier te laten zien. Voordat we de positieve effecten van muziek op de hersenen verkennen, zien we hoe onderzoekers kunnen zien wat muziek doet in de... more
Wat is het effect van muziek op de hersenen? Dit artikel probeert dat op een heldere manier te laten zien. Voordat we de positieve effecten van muziek op de hersenen verkennen, zien we hoe onderzoekers kunnen zien wat muziek doet in de hersenen. Daarna zoeken we uit welk pad de geluidsprikkels van muziek door de hersenen volgen. Vervolgens kijken we naar het verband tussen de ontwikkeling van de hersenen en muziek in het onderwijs.
Research Interests: Neuroscience, Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Music, and 10 moreEducation, Art Therapy, Music Psychology, Child Development, Clinical Neuroscience, Music Cognition, Music Therapy, Clinical Neuropsychology, Jazz, Music Cognition, Improvisation, Neurology of Music, Neurology, and Child Clinical Neuropsychology
This paper seeks to combine the notion of the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory and the resulting twist from the executive dysfunction theory in autism spectrum conditions (ASC) in light of music intervention as system. To achieve... more
This paper seeks to combine the notion of the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory and the resulting twist from the executive dysfunction theory in autism spectrum conditions (ASC) in light of music intervention as system.
To achieve these points it will be important to re-visit, nonetheless briefly, the above mentioned theories and re-define music intervention in the light of these.
Furthermore there is the need to adjust the executive dysfunction theory to a theory of dysfunctioning executive functions. These notions will create a different understanding of music intervention in this context, allowing the development of future and existing music intervention programs applied clinically. These applications will evolve around a structuralised approach to music intervention as system, proposing five consecutive systems. It will therefore argue the aspects of expanding existing theories in ASC together with the call for generalised interventions to better assess autism from a theoretical point of view. Theories have to be updated in a time of fast and ever- changing development.
To achieve these points it will be important to re-visit, nonetheless briefly, the above mentioned theories and re-define music intervention in the light of these.
Furthermore there is the need to adjust the executive dysfunction theory to a theory of dysfunctioning executive functions. These notions will create a different understanding of music intervention in this context, allowing the development of future and existing music intervention programs applied clinically. These applications will evolve around a structuralised approach to music intervention as system, proposing five consecutive systems. It will therefore argue the aspects of expanding existing theories in ASC together with the call for generalised interventions to better assess autism from a theoretical point of view. Theories have to be updated in a time of fast and ever- changing development.
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Far transfer between music education and other cognitive skills, such as academic achievement, has been widely examined. However, the results of studies within similar cognitive domains are found to be inconclusive or contradictory. These... more
Far transfer between music education and other cognitive skills, such as academic achievement, has been widely examined. However, the results of studies within similar cognitive domains are found to be inconclusive or contradictory. These differences can be traced back to the analytical methods used, differences in the forms of music education studied and differences in neural activation during the processing of these tasks. In order to gain a better picture of the relationships involved, a literature survey was performed in leading databases, such as PubMed/MedLine, psychINFO, ScienceDirect, Embase, ERIC, ASSIA and Jstor from January 2001 to January 2013. All studies included, concerned the far transfer from music education to other cognitive skills in children aged 4–13 years as compared with controls. These studies were independently selected and their quality was assessed by two authors. This systematic review shows the need to address methodological and analytical questions in greater detail. There is a general need to unify methods used in music education research. Furthermore, the hypothesis that intellectual skills, such as mathematics, reading, writing and intelligence can be divided into sub-functions, needs to be examined as one approach to the problems considered here. When this has been done, detailed analysis of cognitive transfer from music education to other disciplines should become possible.
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Article in prep. The perception and processing of music reaches increasing interest in the scientific literature. Especially, cognitive and neuroscience studies shed light into the intricate working of the brain when exposed to a musical... more
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The perception and processing of music reaches increasing interest in the scientific literature. Especially, cognitive and neuroscience studies shed light into the intricate working of the brain when exposed to a musical stimulus. Even though, the body of literature is ranging from different pathological applications to neurotypical brain development in children, two fundamental perception and processing theories still argue their justification in understanding brain function and music perception. Resource sharing and modularity are both widely accepted, however still stand as separate hypotheses to explain music perception. In light of this argument, we approach this conundrum from the angle of thalamic multi-sensory integration. The perception of music is innate to multi-sensory processing as the musical stimulus itself is multi-sensory. To understand this relationship, a brief review of the music cognition and neuroscience literature has been conducted to identify the workings of music perception as multi-sensory stimulus. The key structure in this investigation is the Thalamus, an area, which has received too little attention in researching music perception and processing. The thalamus is more than just a relay station, knowledge, which is increasingly supported within the neuroscientific community, but has not yet reached into the realm of music related research. This may well be, as the direct role of the thalamus in relation to the cognitive task of perceiving and processing music has been little understood. Therefore, this review will critically argue the role of the thalamus in multi-sensory integration between the two existing theories of resource sharing and modularity, taking perception, processing and the production of music deep into the brain and back to one of evolutions oldest structures within that architecture.
The perception and processing of music reaches increasing interest in the scientific literature. Especially, cognitive and neuroscience studies shed light into the intricate working of the brain when exposed to a musical stimulus. Even though, the body of literature is ranging from different pathological applications to neurotypical brain development in children, two fundamental perception and processing theories still argue their justification in understanding brain function and music perception. Resource sharing and modularity are both widely accepted, however still stand as separate hypotheses to explain music perception. In light of this argument, we approach this conundrum from the angle of thalamic multi-sensory integration. The perception of music is innate to multi-sensory processing as the musical stimulus itself is multi-sensory. To understand this relationship, a brief review of the music cognition and neuroscience literature has been conducted to identify the workings of music perception as multi-sensory stimulus. The key structure in this investigation is the Thalamus, an area, which has received too little attention in researching music perception and processing. The thalamus is more than just a relay station, knowledge, which is increasingly supported within the neuroscientific community, but has not yet reached into the realm of music related research. This may well be, as the direct role of the thalamus in relation to the cognitive task of perceiving and processing music has been little understood. Therefore, this review will critically argue the role of the thalamus in multi-sensory integration between the two existing theories of resource sharing and modularity, taking perception, processing and the production of music deep into the brain and back to one of evolutions oldest structures within that architecture.
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Cognitieve neurowetenschap maakt een enorm snelle ontwikkeling door, onder meer door een scala aan nieuwe technologieën die wetenschappers in staat stelt het brein beter waar te nemen. Artur C. Jaschke is muzikant, neuromusicoloog en als... more
Cognitieve neurowetenschap maakt een enorm snelle ontwikkeling door, onder meer door een scala aan nieuwe technologieën die wetenschappers in staat stelt het brein beter waar te nemen. Artur C. Jaschke is muzikant, neuromusicoloog en als onderzoeker verbonden aan de afdeling klinische neuropsychologie, Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam. Hij bestudeert de effecten van muziek op het brein.
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Quality assessment of studies is essential for the understanding and application in systematic reviews and meta analyses. Publications in scientific journals have extensively used assessment scales to address poor methodological quality,... more
Quality assessment of studies is essential for the understanding and application in systematic reviews and meta analyses. Publications in scientific journals have extensively used assessment scales to address poor methodological quality, forming inclusion criteria or determine sensitivity controls. Even though these assessments are commonplace in science publications, there is no scale, which assesses the quality of studies in the vast amount of music related sciences.
The clinical music study quality assessment scale (Musiquas) addresses this issue, providing a 10-point rating, whereas studies are judged on four broad perspectives: Selection, Control criteria, Exposure and Outcome.
Musiquas is based on the widely used Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomized studies in meta-analyses (Wells et al, 2011) and was attuned by the authors to fit the demand of quality assessment in music studies and interventions.
Musiquas was piloted in a systematic review on the relationship of music and the transfer effect (Jaschke, Eggermont & Scherder, under review) and its evaluation and validation is currently in progress.
Contact details: Drs A.C. Jaschke, Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, VU University Amsterdam, van der Boechorststraat 1, Room: 1D-26, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
e-mail: a.c.jaschke@vu.nl
The scale is available for download through the below [Download (.pdf)] button
Copyright 2012 VU University Amsterdam. All rights reserved
The clinical music study quality assessment scale (Musiquas) addresses this issue, providing a 10-point rating, whereas studies are judged on four broad perspectives: Selection, Control criteria, Exposure and Outcome.
Musiquas is based on the widely used Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomized studies in meta-analyses (Wells et al, 2011) and was attuned by the authors to fit the demand of quality assessment in music studies and interventions.
Musiquas was piloted in a systematic review on the relationship of music and the transfer effect (Jaschke, Eggermont & Scherder, under review) and its evaluation and validation is currently in progress.
Contact details: Drs A.C. Jaschke, Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, VU University Amsterdam, van der Boechorststraat 1, Room: 1D-26, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
e-mail: a.c.jaschke@vu.nl
The scale is available for download through the below [Download (.pdf)] button
Copyright 2012 VU University Amsterdam. All rights reserved
Research Interests: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Music, Musicology, Art Therapy, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and 7 moreNeuromusicology, Music Cognition, Creative Arts Therapy, Music Therapy, Music Therapy and Oncology and Palliative Medicine; Music Therapy and Global Crises; Music Therapy in Multicultural contexts, Music and Medicine, and Autism Spectrum Treatment
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Ongoing improvements of brain imaging technology rapidly map out the functions of the brain. Research shows music could improve quality of life.
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This article will elaborate on the cognitive and neurological aspects when listening to Mahler’s’ music. It will concentrate on how the music of Mahler is perceived in the brain and what the underlying cognitive functions are, which make... more
This article will elaborate on the cognitive and neurological aspects when listening to Mahler’s’ music.
It will concentrate on how the music of Mahler is perceived in the brain and what the underlying cognitive functions are, which make it an unique experience every time again. It will guide the reader through a simplified and explained journey of the human brain with Mahler’s music in mind.
There is more to Mahler than one believes to perceive in the first instance and this article is aimed at shining light into those underlying mechanisms of perception, processing and stimulation.
It will concentrate on how the music of Mahler is perceived in the brain and what the underlying cognitive functions are, which make it an unique experience every time again. It will guide the reader through a simplified and explained journey of the human brain with Mahler’s music in mind.
There is more to Mahler than one believes to perceive in the first instance and this article is aimed at shining light into those underlying mechanisms of perception, processing and stimulation.
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"This study demonstrates that one cannot speak of freedom in jazz improvisation. Analysing music as a stimulus and thus improvisation with all its different characteristics in a cognitive and neurological framework, one cannot view... more
"This study demonstrates that one cannot speak of freedom in jazz improvisation.
Analysing music as a stimulus and thus improvisation with all its different characteristics in a cognitive and neurological framework, one cannot view improvisation as ultimately free. Nonetheless, it is generally believed that improvisation is the most ultimate form of freedom in music.
This paper however, will show through the application of cognitive economy, hierarchical organisation and the analysis of neurological imaging data that improvisation is based on pre-learned parameters, which define the way a musician performs.
Combining these scientific findings with a philosophical, musicological and cultural framework, allows me to create the hypothesis of controlled freedom.
The interdisciplinary observations, theories and suggestions elaborated in this dissertation are based on extensive literature and experiment reviews, conducted interviews and my own experience as a jazz musician.
Throughout the paper I argue that there is no freedom in improvisation, only the freedom to choose freedom. Improvisation always works within a framework and therefore is the improviser merely able to negotiate the boundaries in which to operate."
Analysing music as a stimulus and thus improvisation with all its different characteristics in a cognitive and neurological framework, one cannot view improvisation as ultimately free. Nonetheless, it is generally believed that improvisation is the most ultimate form of freedom in music.
This paper however, will show through the application of cognitive economy, hierarchical organisation and the analysis of neurological imaging data that improvisation is based on pre-learned parameters, which define the way a musician performs.
Combining these scientific findings with a philosophical, musicological and cultural framework, allows me to create the hypothesis of controlled freedom.
The interdisciplinary observations, theories and suggestions elaborated in this dissertation are based on extensive literature and experiment reviews, conducted interviews and my own experience as a jazz musician.
Throughout the paper I argue that there is no freedom in improvisation, only the freedom to choose freedom. Improvisation always works within a framework and therefore is the improviser merely able to negotiate the boundaries in which to operate."
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De NS laat muziek uit attractiepark de Efteling horen op het Centraal Station, in de hoop hangjongeren en andere ongewenste bezoekers af te schrikken. Zij zouden zich ergeren aan de muziek. Onder meer de nummers van het Carnaval Festival... more
De NS laat muziek uit attractiepark de Efteling horen op het Centraal Station, in de hoop hangjongeren en andere ongewenste bezoekers af te schrikken. Zij zouden zich ergeren aan de muziek. Onder meer de nummers van het Carnaval Festival en De Indische Waterlelies zijn te horen.
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Zaterdag 27.05.2017
Start biedt tussen 05:00 en 07:00 een andere kijk op de actualiteit, verdiept met persoonlijke verhalen, poezie en veel muziek. De redactie van het programma wordt gedaan door de talenten van BNNVARA-Academy.
Start biedt tussen 05:00 en 07:00 een andere kijk op de actualiteit, verdiept met persoonlijke verhalen, poezie en veel muziek. De redactie van het programma wordt gedaan door de talenten van BNNVARA-Academy.
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http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/editienl/een-muziekloos-cafe-we-willen-gasten-niet-lastig-vallen-met-muziek Een muziekloos café: 'We willen gasten niet lastig vallen met muziek'4590 © iStock Images Voor wie in alle rust een borrel wil drinken of... more
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Een muziekloos café: 'We willen gasten niet lastig vallen met muziek'4590 © iStock Images Voor wie in alle rust een borrel wil drinken of hapje eten, is er nu zondermuziek.nl. De site verzamelt openbare locaties in Nederland waar geen achtergrondmuziek wordt gespeeld. We zijn zo aan die muziek gewend, maar wat gebeurt er met ons als dat weg wordt gehaald? Het zijn er niet veel, maar volgens zondermuziek.nl telt Nederland een tiental cafés en restaurants die geen achtergrondmuziek draaien. Eén daarvan is café-restaurant De Ysbreeker in Amsterdam. "We willen de gasten niet lastig vallen met de muziek", zegt eigenaar Yuri de Baat. "Overdag zitten hier veel zzp'ers en studenten te werken, en dan is rust goed. Maar 's avonds zit het hier altijd zo vol dat muziek daar bovenop voor te veel lawaai zal zorgen. Je focust je gewoon beter op je gesprek zo." Opvoeding en omgeving Het onderzoek naar wat muziek met ons alle precies doet, blijkt moeilijker dan gedacht. "Het is heel individueel", zegt neuromusicoloog Arthur Jaschke. "Aan de ene kant heb je mensen die goed kunnen leren met muziek en anderen die de achtergrondmuziek juist vervelend vinden." "Het heeft te maken met hoe we zijn opgevoed en hoe ons brein dat allemaal verwerkt", zegt Jaschke. Dit heeft volgens de neuromusicoloog te maken met 'nature' en 'nurture': wat je meekrijgt in je genen of je omgeving.
Een muziekloos café: 'We willen gasten niet lastig vallen met muziek'4590 © iStock Images Voor wie in alle rust een borrel wil drinken of hapje eten, is er nu zondermuziek.nl. De site verzamelt openbare locaties in Nederland waar geen achtergrondmuziek wordt gespeeld. We zijn zo aan die muziek gewend, maar wat gebeurt er met ons als dat weg wordt gehaald? Het zijn er niet veel, maar volgens zondermuziek.nl telt Nederland een tiental cafés en restaurants die geen achtergrondmuziek draaien. Eén daarvan is café-restaurant De Ysbreeker in Amsterdam. "We willen de gasten niet lastig vallen met de muziek", zegt eigenaar Yuri de Baat. "Overdag zitten hier veel zzp'ers en studenten te werken, en dan is rust goed. Maar 's avonds zit het hier altijd zo vol dat muziek daar bovenop voor te veel lawaai zal zorgen. Je focust je gewoon beter op je gesprek zo." Opvoeding en omgeving Het onderzoek naar wat muziek met ons alle precies doet, blijkt moeilijker dan gedacht. "Het is heel individueel", zegt neuromusicoloog Arthur Jaschke. "Aan de ene kant heb je mensen die goed kunnen leren met muziek en anderen die de achtergrondmuziek juist vervelend vinden." "Het heeft te maken met hoe we zijn opgevoed en hoe ons brein dat allemaal verwerkt", zegt Jaschke. Dit heeft volgens de neuromusicoloog te maken met 'nature' en 'nurture': wat je meekrijgt in je genen of je omgeving.
LUDWIG en het Brein op tournee door Nederland Minifestivals met onder meer kruipruimte voor babyonderzoek 9/10/2016 | LUDWIG organiseert van 8 t/m 20 november 2016 een eerste serie van vijf minifestivals door heel Nederland. Onder de naam... more
LUDWIG en het Brein op tournee door Nederland Minifestivals met onder meer kruipruimte voor babyonderzoek 9/10/2016 | LUDWIG organiseert van 8 t/m 20 november 2016 een eerste serie van vijf minifestivals door heel Nederland. Onder de naam Brainwave presenteert het eigenzinnige muziekgezelschap, samen met een groep wetenschappers, medici en technici, de voortgang van hun gezamenlijke project LUDWIG en het Brein, over de impact en inzetbaarheid van muziek. Brainwave #1 (november 2016) gaat over de invloed van muziek op het jonge brein en de ontwikkeling van identiteit. Brainwave #2 (februari 2017) onderzoekt de rol van muziek bij aandoeningen zoals dementie en autisme. De Brainwave #3-festivals (september 2017) kijken naar de manier waarop we muziek waarnemen en de rol die muziek in de toekomst zal gaan spelen. De Brainwave #1-festivals worden dynamisch, waarbij het publiek in de diverse ruimtes afwisselend muziekluisteraar, wetenschaps-fan, innovatie-watcher of zelfs onderzoeksobject zal zijn. Neuromusicoloog, contrabassist en drummer Artur Jaschke en beeldontwerper Maarten Warmerdam nemen ons mee op een virtuele reis door het brein, waarvan een dwarsdoorsnede op de vloer wordt geprojecteerd. Componist en theatermaker Florian de Backere laat het publiek in zijn voorstelling over muziek, identiteit en kindertijd voelen hoe groot de impact van muziek kan zijn op een mensenleven. Hersenonderzoeker Richard Kunert, gepromoveerd aan het Max Planck Instituut, deelt de laatste inzichten over de relatie tussen taal en muziek in het menselijk brein.
Research Interests: Neuroscience, Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Psychology, and 14 moreCognitive Science, Neuropsychology, Artificial Intelligence, Music, Musicology, Art Therapy, Deep Brain Stimulation, Creative Arts Therapy, Music Therapy, Cognitive Neuroscience, Systematic Musicology, Brain, Brain Based Learning, and Congnitive Neuroscience
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Hoe kan je muziek als hulpmiddel in de dagelijkse zorg inzetten? Deze vraag staat centraal tijdens het succesvolle landelijk congres 'Muziek, een waardevol instrument in de Zorg' op 26 september 2016 in het Akoesticum in Ede. Topsprekers,... more
Hoe kan je muziek als hulpmiddel in de dagelijkse zorg inzetten? Deze vraag staat centraal tijdens het succesvolle landelijk congres 'Muziek, een waardevol instrument in de Zorg' op 26 september 2016 in het Akoesticum in Ede. Topsprekers, waaronder Prof.dr. Hans Jeekel, Artur Jaschke en Hanne Deneire, gaan in op de effecten en praktische inzet van muziek in de zorg. Muziek is niet weg te denken uit ons leven. Luisteren naar muziek geeft een bijzondere beleving, het roept emoties op en brengt mensen in contact. Zo krijgen mensen met diepgevorderde dementie door het luisteren naar muziek herinneringen terug. Mensen die een herseninfarct hebben gehad, kunnen door muziektherapie hun spraak leren verbeteren. Doordat muziek positieve gevoelens oproept, kan het ondersteunen bij stressvolle momenten in de dagelijkse zorg. Ook in het ziekenhuis wordt muziek ingezet als middel tegen pijn, stress en angst, bijvoorbeeld ter voorbereiding op een operatie. Alle reden om vaker muziek in te zetten als hulpmiddel in de dagelijkse zorg. Naast een college van Artur Jaschke over muziek en het brein gaat Prof.dr. Hans Jeekel in op de inzet van muziek in het ziekenhuis. Hanne Deneire, artistiek leider van House of Music uit België, geeft praktische tips over hoe muziek kan worden ingezet in de dagelijkse praktijk. Deelnemers kunnen het congresprogramma verder zelf samenstellen door een keuze te maken uit 15 inspirerende en praktische workshops. Dit congres wordt georganiseerd door StudieArena in samenwerking met Alzheimer Nederland, VU Amsterdam, NVvMT (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Muziektherapie), House of Music en Music & Memory. Het complete programma vindt je terug op: www.studiearena.nl. Opmerking voor de redactie (niet voor publicatie): Voor eventuele vragen over de inhoud van dit persbericht kunt u contact opnemen met: StudieArena, Wendie Zwarst, 035-5394005 / info@studiearena.nl. Complete link naar het congresprogramma:
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An introduction day aimed at those who are curious to know more about the principles of music therapy and who are interested in the Master in Music Therapy. Meet our staff ! This introduction day is a good preparation for the audition in... more
An introduction day aimed at those who are curious to know more about the principles of
music therapy and who are interested in the Master in Music Therapy.
Meet our staff ! This introduction day is a good preparation for the audition in March 2016
and gives an impression of the programme through working with several core tutors.
It is open to anyone interested in music therapy. There are no entry requirements.
You can apply by sending an email to: musictherapy@codarts.nl
music therapy and who are interested in the Master in Music Therapy.
Meet our staff ! This introduction day is a good preparation for the audition in March 2016
and gives an impression of the programme through working with several core tutors.
It is open to anyone interested in music therapy. There are no entry requirements.
You can apply by sending an email to: musictherapy@codarts.nl
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In de afgelopen jaren hebben de effecten van muziek op het brein steeds meer aandacht gekregen. In het onderwijs blijken er nog veel open vragen te zijn in hoe veer muziek een bijdrage levert aan hersen groei en ontwikkeling. Met name is... more
In de afgelopen jaren hebben de effecten van muziek op het brein steeds meer aandacht gekregen. In het onderwijs blijken er nog veel open vragen te zijn in hoe veer muziek een bijdrage levert aan hersen groei en ontwikkeling. Met name is de far transfer effect (de invloed van een cognitieve domaine op een andere, b.v. Muziek verwerking naar rekenen) van groot belang binnen het onderzoek naar de invloed van muziek op het zich ontwikkelende brein. Maar muziek blijkt niet alleen in het onderwijs een rol te spelen, ook bij ziektes als Alzheimer, Autisme of Parkinson werd steeds meer muziek implementeert om niet alleen de Kwaliteit van Leven van de cliënt te verbeteren, maar de horizon verder te streken en Muziek als medicijn te zien. Deze lezing zou een korte reis door het muziek verwerkende brein aangaan en de vertaalslag maken, naar een beter begrip van muziek als medicijn.
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In de afgelopen jaren hebben de effecten van muziek op het brein steeds meer aandacht gekregen. Vooral in het onderwijs blijken er nog veel open vragen te zijn in hoe veer muziek een bijdrage levert aan hersen groei en ontwikkeling. Met... more
In de afgelopen jaren hebben de effecten van muziek op het brein steeds meer aandacht gekregen. Vooral in het onderwijs blijken er nog veel open vragen te zijn in hoe veer muziek een bijdrage levert aan hersen groei en ontwikkeling. Met name is de far transfer effect (de invloed van een cognitieve domaine op een andere, b.v. Muziek verwerking naar rekenen) van groot belang binnen het onderzoek naar de invloed van muziek op het zich ontwikkelende brein. Deze lezing zou een korte reis door het muziek verwerkende brein aangaan en de vertaalslag naar de transfer effect maken met voorbeelden uit het op dit moment lopende onderzoek naar de effecten van muziek onderwijs op hersengroei en executieve functies bij basisschool kinderen.
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In de afgelopen jaren hebben de effecten van muziek op het brein steeds meer aandacht gekregen. Vooral in het onderwijs blijken er nog veel open vragen te zijn in hoe veer muziek een bijdrage levert aan hersen groei en ontwikkeling. Met... more
In de afgelopen jaren hebben de effecten van muziek op het brein steeds meer aandacht gekregen. Vooral in het onderwijs blijken er nog veel open vragen te zijn in hoe veer muziek een bijdrage levert aan hersen groei en ontwikkeling. Met name is de far transfer effect (de invloed van een cognitieve domaine op een andere, b.v. Muziek verwerking naar rekenen) van groot belang binnen het onderzoek naar de invloed van muziek op het zich ontwikkelende brein. Deze lezing zou een korte reis door het muziek verwerkende brein aangaan en de vertaalslag naar de transfer effect maken met voorbeelden uit het op dit moment lopende onderzoek naar de effecten van muziek onderwijs op hersengroei en executieve functies bij basisschool kinderen.
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Music is medicine. Different clinical populations increasingly enjoy the benefits of tailored music interventions. But what is music and does it effect our brains, and therefor can raise benefits for clinical populations and different... more
Music is medicine. Different clinical populations increasingly enjoy the benefits of tailored music interventions. But what is music and does it effect our brains, and therefor can raise benefits for clinical populations and different pathologies?
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Vandaag in de uitzending Gesprek (17.05) met Artur Jaschke. Hij is muzikant maar tegenwoordig vooral actief als breinonderzoeker. En hij is betrokken bij concerten van pianiste Katja Veekmans, die een nieuw fenomeen in de concertzaal... more
Vandaag in de uitzending
Gesprek (17.05) met Artur Jaschke. Hij is muzikant maar tegenwoordig vooral actief als breinonderzoeker. En hij is betrokken bij concerten van pianiste Katja Veekmans, die een nieuw fenomeen in de concertzaal vormen: zij maken deel uit van een onderzoek naar de werking van muziek op het brein van musici en luisteraars.
Ons mailadres: podium@ntr.nl
Gesprek (17.05) met Artur Jaschke. Hij is muzikant maar tegenwoordig vooral actief als breinonderzoeker. En hij is betrokken bij concerten van pianiste Katja Veekmans, die een nieuw fenomeen in de concertzaal vormen: zij maken deel uit van een onderzoek naar de werking van muziek op het brein van musici en luisteraars.
Ons mailadres: podium@ntr.nl
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Imagination, Music & the Brain laat het publiek een klassiek concert op een unieke manier ervaren: het publiek maakt het concert mee vanuit de ‘Imagination’ in het hoofd van een pianist.
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Hersenonderzoek tijdens willekeurige concerten bij de BUMA Classical Convention 2014.
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De neuro-cognitieve wetenschappen hebben in de afgelopen 15 jaar een enorme vooruitgang geboekt. Dat geldt vooral voor de neuropsychologie, die neurowetenschap met cognitieve en gedragswetenschappen combineert. Neuropsychologie... more
De neuro-cognitieve wetenschappen hebben in de afgelopen
15 jaar een enorme vooruitgang geboekt. Dat geldt vooral voor
de neuropsychologie, die neurowetenschap met cognitieve en
gedragswetenschappen combineert. Neuropsychologie
onderzoekt niet alleen het van buiten zichtbare gedrag van
cliënten, maar is in staat om deze aan hersenfuncties te
koppelen en creëert zo een duidelijk pathologisch beeld.
Het doel van de workshop is een (nadere) kennismaking met
de klinische neuropsychologie, waarbij uiteengezet wordt hoe
deze kennis in de praktijk toegepast kan worden, toegespitst
op ouderen met verstandelijke beperking.
15 jaar een enorme vooruitgang geboekt. Dat geldt vooral voor
de neuropsychologie, die neurowetenschap met cognitieve en
gedragswetenschappen combineert. Neuropsychologie
onderzoekt niet alleen het van buiten zichtbare gedrag van
cliënten, maar is in staat om deze aan hersenfuncties te
koppelen en creëert zo een duidelijk pathologisch beeld.
Het doel van de workshop is een (nadere) kennismaking met
de klinische neuropsychologie, waarbij uiteengezet wordt hoe
deze kennis in de praktijk toegepast kan worden, toegespitst
op ouderen met verstandelijke beperking.
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NTR - Nederland 2 . Tips hoe je het brein kan verbeteren. Muziek spelt hier onder anderen tips de eerste viool. Hoe werkt muziek in het brein en wat zijn de effecten er van? Heeft muziek een invloed op geheugen, emoties, executieve... more
NTR - Nederland 2
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Tips hoe je het brein kan verbeteren. Muziek spelt hier onder anderen tips de eerste viool. Hoe werkt muziek in het brein en wat zijn de effecten er van? Heeft muziek een invloed op geheugen, emoties, executieve functies of zelfs op ons zijn? Artur C. Jaschke geeft hierop antwoord.
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Tips hoe je het brein kan verbeteren. Muziek spelt hier onder anderen tips de eerste viool. Hoe werkt muziek in het brein en wat zijn de effecten er van? Heeft muziek een invloed op geheugen, emoties, executieve functies of zelfs op ons zijn? Artur C. Jaschke geeft hierop antwoord.
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Kunst als doel of kunst als middel? Folkert Haanstra gaat met u en een panel van deskundigen het gesprek en de discussie aan over de uitkomsten van het onderzoek Art for Art’s sake. Cultuureducatie zou weinig effect hebben op... more
Kunst als doel of kunst als middel?
Folkert Haanstra gaat met u en een panel van deskundigen het gesprek en de discussie aan over de uitkomsten van het onderzoek Art for Art’s sake.
Cultuureducatie zou weinig effect hebben op creativiteit en kritisch denken van leerlingen. Maar moet cultuureducatie niet gaan om rechtvaardiging door de intrinsieke waarde van kunst en de vaardigheden en attitudes die hiermee verbonden zijn? Tijdens deze bijeenkomst gaat u met collega’s uit het veld en experts de discussie aan over dit onderwerp. PO, VO, cultuuraanbieders
Folkert Haanstra gaat met u en een panel van deskundigen het gesprek en de discussie aan over de uitkomsten van het onderzoek Art for Art’s sake.
Cultuureducatie zou weinig effect hebben op creativiteit en kritisch denken van leerlingen. Maar moet cultuureducatie niet gaan om rechtvaardiging door de intrinsieke waarde van kunst en de vaardigheden en attitudes die hiermee verbonden zijn? Tijdens deze bijeenkomst gaat u met collega’s uit het veld en experts de discussie aan over dit onderwerp. PO, VO, cultuuraanbieders
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periode: v.a. tussen 1 november 2013 en 1 februari 2014 op verschillenden SHL locaties in Nederland Doelgroep: gedragswetenschappers en vaktherapeuten, maar (para)medici zijn ook van harte welkom De Neuro-cognitieve... more
periode: v.a. tussen 1 november 2013 en 1 februari 2014
op verschillenden SHL locaties in Nederland
Doelgroep: gedragswetenschappers en vaktherapeuten, maar (para)medici zijn ook van harte welkom
De Neuro-cognitieve wetenschappen hebben in de afgelopen 15 jaar een enorme vooruitgang beleefd. Met name de Neuropsychologie, die Neuro-wetenschap met cognitieve en gedragswetenschappen combineert. Neuropsychologie onderzoekt niet alleen het van buiten zichtbare gedrag van cliënten, maar is in staat om deze aan hersenfuncties te koppelen en creëert zo een duidelijk pathologisch beeld. Nieuwe bevindingen en toepassingen van binnen de klinische Neuropsychologie worden dagelijks gepubliceerd en de methodes dus constant verbeterd.
Het is moeilijk in een tijd van zo veel verandering, op de hoogte te blijven van nieuwe mogelijkheden en het belang van deze mogelijkheden voor de eigen praktijk te zien.
In deze Workshop wordt gefocust op recente ontwikkelingen in de Neuropsychologie vanuit de wetenschap, onderzoek en praktijk. Vragen die beantwoord worden zijn o.a.:
1) Wat is Neuropsychologie en wat zijn de meest recente
ontwikkelingen?
2) Waarom is deze belangrijk voor mij in de praktijk?
3) Hoe kan ik deze gebruiken in mijn praktijk?
4) Is er een verband tussen NP en mijn vakgebied (e.g.
beweging-, taal-, muziek-, gedragstherapie, artspraktijk )
Deelnemers kunnen hun werkervaring inbrengen en deze in groepen bediscussiëren in de context van de Neuropsychologie. Hierin zouden bijvoorbeeld de volgende vragen aan de orde kunnen komen.
1) Kan ik NP überhaupt gebruiken in mijn praktijk?
2) Is het belangrijk voor mij om op de hoogte te blijven van
ontwikkelingen in onderzoek en wetenschap binnen de
Neuropsychologie.
3) Hoe kan ik het gedrag van mijn cliënten beter begrijpen door
een basisbegrip van Neuropsychologie?
De workshop wordt per regio gehouden en zou maximaal 2 uur duren.
De eerste 45 minuten zal en interactieve presentatie over de meest recente ontwikkelingen in de Neuropsychologie een inblik geven in het onderwerp.
Naar een korte pauze, waar er tijd zou zijn om met elkaar al in gesprek te gaan, woorden de deelnemers in groepen onderdeelt. Deze groepen -liefst zo heterogeen mogelijk voor een bevordering van crossdisciplinaire discussie – brengen in de tweede helft (45min) praktijk en casuïstiek in om deze met elkaar te bediscuteren.
Doel van deze workshop is het kennismaken niet alleen met de klinische Neuropsychologie en hoe deze in de praktijk toegepast kan worden maar ook om een platform voor verschillende praktijken te creëren en deze samen te bediscuteren en te ontdekken.
op verschillenden SHL locaties in Nederland
Doelgroep: gedragswetenschappers en vaktherapeuten, maar (para)medici zijn ook van harte welkom
De Neuro-cognitieve wetenschappen hebben in de afgelopen 15 jaar een enorme vooruitgang beleefd. Met name de Neuropsychologie, die Neuro-wetenschap met cognitieve en gedragswetenschappen combineert. Neuropsychologie onderzoekt niet alleen het van buiten zichtbare gedrag van cliënten, maar is in staat om deze aan hersenfuncties te koppelen en creëert zo een duidelijk pathologisch beeld. Nieuwe bevindingen en toepassingen van binnen de klinische Neuropsychologie worden dagelijks gepubliceerd en de methodes dus constant verbeterd.
Het is moeilijk in een tijd van zo veel verandering, op de hoogte te blijven van nieuwe mogelijkheden en het belang van deze mogelijkheden voor de eigen praktijk te zien.
In deze Workshop wordt gefocust op recente ontwikkelingen in de Neuropsychologie vanuit de wetenschap, onderzoek en praktijk. Vragen die beantwoord worden zijn o.a.:
1) Wat is Neuropsychologie en wat zijn de meest recente
ontwikkelingen?
2) Waarom is deze belangrijk voor mij in de praktijk?
3) Hoe kan ik deze gebruiken in mijn praktijk?
4) Is er een verband tussen NP en mijn vakgebied (e.g.
beweging-, taal-, muziek-, gedragstherapie, artspraktijk )
Deelnemers kunnen hun werkervaring inbrengen en deze in groepen bediscussiëren in de context van de Neuropsychologie. Hierin zouden bijvoorbeeld de volgende vragen aan de orde kunnen komen.
1) Kan ik NP überhaupt gebruiken in mijn praktijk?
2) Is het belangrijk voor mij om op de hoogte te blijven van
ontwikkelingen in onderzoek en wetenschap binnen de
Neuropsychologie.
3) Hoe kan ik het gedrag van mijn cliënten beter begrijpen door
een basisbegrip van Neuropsychologie?
De workshop wordt per regio gehouden en zou maximaal 2 uur duren.
De eerste 45 minuten zal en interactieve presentatie over de meest recente ontwikkelingen in de Neuropsychologie een inblik geven in het onderwerp.
Naar een korte pauze, waar er tijd zou zijn om met elkaar al in gesprek te gaan, woorden de deelnemers in groepen onderdeelt. Deze groepen -liefst zo heterogeen mogelijk voor een bevordering van crossdisciplinaire discussie – brengen in de tweede helft (45min) praktijk en casuïstiek in om deze met elkaar te bediscuteren.
Doel van deze workshop is het kennismaken niet alleen met de klinische Neuropsychologie en hoe deze in de praktijk toegepast kan worden maar ook om een platform voor verschillende praktijken te creëren en deze samen te bediscuteren en te ontdekken.
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Thalamic multisensory integration: creating a neural network map of involved brain areas in music perception, processing and execution Music activates a wide array of neural areas involved in different functions besides the perception,... more
Thalamic multisensory integration: creating a neural network map of involved brain areas in music perception, processing and execution
Music activates a wide array of neural areas involved in different functions besides the perception, processing and execution of music itself. Understanding musical processes in the brain has had multiple implications in the neuro- and health sciences.
Engaging the brain with a multisensory stimulus such as music activates responses beyond the temporal lobe. Brain networks involve the frontal lobes, parietal lobes, the limbic system such as the Amygdala, Hippocampus and thalamus, the cerebellum and the brainstem. Nonetheless, there has been no attempt to summarise all involved brain areas in music into one overall encompassing map. This may well be, as there has been no thorough theory introduced, which would allow an initial point of departure in creating such a atlas.
A thorough systematic review has been therefore conducted together with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify all mentioned neural connection involved in the perception, processing and execution of music.
Tracing the direct responses in the involved brain regions back to its origin (the incoming stimulus through the cochlea), neural tracks lead nearly exclusively via the thalamic nuclei. Communication between the thalamic nuclei is the initial step in multisensory integration, which lies at the base of the neural networks as proposed in this paper. Against this backdrop, this manuscript introduces the to our knowledge first thorough map of all involved brain regions in the perception, processing and execution of music, out of the general need of such a map and the knowledge, which can be gained from it.
Consequently, placing thalamic multisensory integration at the core of this atlas allowed to create a preliminary theory to explain the complexity of music induced brain activation, ergo a consecutive network encompassing and explaining the connections between all areas and not only areas of interest in the singularity of different strains of music related research.
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Music intervention as system: reversing Hyper Systemizing in Autism Spectrum Disorders to the comprehension of music as intervention
This paper seeks to combine the notion of the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory and the resulting twist from the executive dysfunction theory in autism spectrum conditions in light of music intervention as system.
To achieve these points it will be important to re-visit, nonetheless briefly, the above mentioned theories and re-define music intervention in view of these. Our understanding of autism in light of impaired neuropsychological functions, calls for alternatives in the improvement of quality of life for these individuals, moving away from still more disabling pharmaceutical intrusions. Music intervention offers this alternative through its multifaceted cognitive stimulation, lacks however a unified and applicable model. Against this backdrop there is the need to adjust the executive dysfunction theory to a theory of dysfunctioning executive functions (dEF) to understand music intervention, E-S and the mentioned dEF. This in turn allows an insight into the cognitive workings of music on the autistic spectrum.
These notions - based on case reports of both clients and therapists as-well as systematic literature reviews - will create a different understanding of music intervention in this framework, placing the grounding stone in the development of future and existing music intervention programs applied clinically. These applications will evolve around a structuralised approach to music intervention as system, proposing five consecutive systems. (Collectible, Mechanical, Numerical, Natural, Motor and Social). Each of these are holding specific attributes, which reflect behaviors on the autistic spectrum.
It will therefore argue the aspects of expanding existing theories in ASD together with the call for generalised interventions to better assess autism.
Theories have to be updated in a time of fast and ever- changing development; a notion that this paper seeks to argue from a clinical, therapeutic, interventional, cognitive and theoretical point of view.
Music activates a wide array of neural areas involved in different functions besides the perception, processing and execution of music itself. Understanding musical processes in the brain has had multiple implications in the neuro- and health sciences.
Engaging the brain with a multisensory stimulus such as music activates responses beyond the temporal lobe. Brain networks involve the frontal lobes, parietal lobes, the limbic system such as the Amygdala, Hippocampus and thalamus, the cerebellum and the brainstem. Nonetheless, there has been no attempt to summarise all involved brain areas in music into one overall encompassing map. This may well be, as there has been no thorough theory introduced, which would allow an initial point of departure in creating such a atlas.
A thorough systematic review has been therefore conducted together with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify all mentioned neural connection involved in the perception, processing and execution of music.
Tracing the direct responses in the involved brain regions back to its origin (the incoming stimulus through the cochlea), neural tracks lead nearly exclusively via the thalamic nuclei. Communication between the thalamic nuclei is the initial step in multisensory integration, which lies at the base of the neural networks as proposed in this paper. Against this backdrop, this manuscript introduces the to our knowledge first thorough map of all involved brain regions in the perception, processing and execution of music, out of the general need of such a map and the knowledge, which can be gained from it.
Consequently, placing thalamic multisensory integration at the core of this atlas allowed to create a preliminary theory to explain the complexity of music induced brain activation, ergo a consecutive network encompassing and explaining the connections between all areas and not only areas of interest in the singularity of different strains of music related research.
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Music intervention as system: reversing Hyper Systemizing in Autism Spectrum Disorders to the comprehension of music as intervention
This paper seeks to combine the notion of the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory and the resulting twist from the executive dysfunction theory in autism spectrum conditions in light of music intervention as system.
To achieve these points it will be important to re-visit, nonetheless briefly, the above mentioned theories and re-define music intervention in view of these. Our understanding of autism in light of impaired neuropsychological functions, calls for alternatives in the improvement of quality of life for these individuals, moving away from still more disabling pharmaceutical intrusions. Music intervention offers this alternative through its multifaceted cognitive stimulation, lacks however a unified and applicable model. Against this backdrop there is the need to adjust the executive dysfunction theory to a theory of dysfunctioning executive functions (dEF) to understand music intervention, E-S and the mentioned dEF. This in turn allows an insight into the cognitive workings of music on the autistic spectrum.
These notions - based on case reports of both clients and therapists as-well as systematic literature reviews - will create a different understanding of music intervention in this framework, placing the grounding stone in the development of future and existing music intervention programs applied clinically. These applications will evolve around a structuralised approach to music intervention as system, proposing five consecutive systems. (Collectible, Mechanical, Numerical, Natural, Motor and Social). Each of these are holding specific attributes, which reflect behaviors on the autistic spectrum.
It will therefore argue the aspects of expanding existing theories in ASD together with the call for generalised interventions to better assess autism.
Theories have to be updated in a time of fast and ever- changing development; a notion that this paper seeks to argue from a clinical, therapeutic, interventional, cognitive and theoretical point of view.
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Music activates a wide array of neural areas involved in different functions besides the perception, processing and execution of music itself. Understanding musical processes in the brain has had multiple implications in the neuro- and... more
Music activates a wide array of neural areas involved in different functions besides the perception, processing and execution of music itself. Understanding musical processes in the brain has had multiple implications in the neuro- and health sciences.
Engaging the brain with a multisensory stimulus - such as music - activates responses beyond the temporal lobe. Brain networks involve the frontal lobes, parietal lobes, the limbic system such as the Amygdala, Hippocampus and thalamus, the cerebellum and the brainstem. Nonetheless, there has been no attempt to summarise all involved brain areas in music into one overall encompassing neural theory. This may well be, as there has been no such theory as of yet.
Tracing the direct responses in the involved brain regions back to its origin (the incoming stimulus through the cochlea), neural tracks lead nearly exclusively via the thalamic nuclei. Communication between the thalamic nuclei is the initial step in multisensory integration, which lies at the base of the neural networks as will be proposed in this presentation. Against this backdrop, this presentation will introduce involved brain regions in the perception, processing and execution of music, comparing clinical and non clinical populations.
Consequently, placing thalamic multisensory integration at the core of music perception, processing and execution allowes to create a preliminary theory to explain the complexity of music induced brain activation; ergo a consecutive network encompassing and explaining the connections between all areas and not only areas of interest in the singularity of different strains of music related research.
Engaging the brain with a multisensory stimulus - such as music - activates responses beyond the temporal lobe. Brain networks involve the frontal lobes, parietal lobes, the limbic system such as the Amygdala, Hippocampus and thalamus, the cerebellum and the brainstem. Nonetheless, there has been no attempt to summarise all involved brain areas in music into one overall encompassing neural theory. This may well be, as there has been no such theory as of yet.
Tracing the direct responses in the involved brain regions back to its origin (the incoming stimulus through the cochlea), neural tracks lead nearly exclusively via the thalamic nuclei. Communication between the thalamic nuclei is the initial step in multisensory integration, which lies at the base of the neural networks as will be proposed in this presentation. Against this backdrop, this presentation will introduce involved brain regions in the perception, processing and execution of music, comparing clinical and non clinical populations.
Consequently, placing thalamic multisensory integration at the core of music perception, processing and execution allowes to create a preliminary theory to explain the complexity of music induced brain activation; ergo a consecutive network encompassing and explaining the connections between all areas and not only areas of interest in the singularity of different strains of music related research.
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"Thalamic multisensory integration: creating a neural network map of involved brain areas in music perception, processing and execution Music activates a wide array of neural areas involved in different functions besides the... more
"Thalamic multisensory integration: creating a neural network map of involved brain areas in music perception, processing and execution
Music activates a wide array of neural areas involved in different functions besides the perception, processing and execution of music itself. Understanding musical processes in the brain has had multiple implications in the neuro- and health sciences.
Engaging the brain with a multisensory stimulus such as music activates responses beyond the temporal lobe. Brain networks involve the frontal lobes, parietal lobes, the limbic system such as the Amygdala, Hippocampus and thalamus, the cerebellum and the brainstem. Nonetheless, there has been no attempt to summarise all involved brain areas in music into one overall encompassing map. This may well be, as there has been no thorough theory introduced, which would allow an initial point of departure in creating such a atlas.
A thorough systematic review has been therefore conducted together with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify all mentioned neural connection involved in the perception, processing and execution of music.
Tracing the direct responses in the involved brain regions back to its origin (the incoming stimulus through the cochlea), neural tracks lead nearly exclusively via the thalamic nuclei. Communication between the thalamic nuclei is the initial step in multisensory integration, which lies at the base of the neural networks as proposed in this paper. Against this backdrop, this manuscript introduces the to our knowledge first thorough map of all involved brain regions in the perception, processing and execution of music, out of the general need of such a map and the knowledge, which can be gained from it.
Consequently, placing thalamic multisensory integration at the core of this atlas allowed to create a preliminary theory to explain the complexity of music induced brain activation, ergo a consecutive network encompassing and explaining the connections between all areas and not only areas of interest in the singularity of different strains of music related research.
&
Music intervention as system: reversing Hyper Systemizing in Autism Spectrum Disorders to the comprehension of music as intervention
This paper seeks to combine the notion of the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory and the resulting twist from the executive dysfunction theory in autism spectrum conditions in light of music intervention as system.
To achieve these points it will be important to re-visit, nonetheless briefly, the above mentioned theories and re-define music intervention in view of these. Our understanding of autism in light of impaired neuropsychological functions, calls for alternatives in the improvement of quality of life for these individuals, moving away from still more disabling pharmaceutical intrusions. Music intervention offers this alternative through its multifaceted cognitive stimulation, lacks however a unified and applicable model. Against this backdrop there is the need to adjust the executive dysfunction theory to a theory of dysfunctioning executive functions (dEF) to understand music intervention, E-S and the mentioned dEF. This in turn allows an insight into the cognitive workings of music on the autistic spectrum.
These notions - based on case reports of both clients and therapists as-well as systematic literature reviews - will create a different understanding of music intervention in this framework, placing the grounding stone in the development of future and existing music intervention programs applied clinically. These applications will evolve around a structuralised approach to music intervention as system, proposing five consecutive systems. (Collectible, Mechanical, Numerical, Natural, Motor and Social). Each of these are holding specific attributes, which reflect behaviors on the autistic spectrum.
It will therefore argue the aspects of expanding existing theories in ASD together with the call for generalised interventions to better assess autism.
Theories have to be updated in a time of fast and ever- changing development; a notion that this paper seeks to argue from a clinical, therapeutic, interventional, cognitive and theoretical point of view.
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Music activates a wide array of neural areas involved in different functions besides the perception, processing and execution of music itself. Understanding musical processes in the brain has had multiple implications in the neuro- and health sciences.
Engaging the brain with a multisensory stimulus such as music activates responses beyond the temporal lobe. Brain networks involve the frontal lobes, parietal lobes, the limbic system such as the Amygdala, Hippocampus and thalamus, the cerebellum and the brainstem. Nonetheless, there has been no attempt to summarise all involved brain areas in music into one overall encompassing map. This may well be, as there has been no thorough theory introduced, which would allow an initial point of departure in creating such a atlas.
A thorough systematic review has been therefore conducted together with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify all mentioned neural connection involved in the perception, processing and execution of music.
Tracing the direct responses in the involved brain regions back to its origin (the incoming stimulus through the cochlea), neural tracks lead nearly exclusively via the thalamic nuclei. Communication between the thalamic nuclei is the initial step in multisensory integration, which lies at the base of the neural networks as proposed in this paper. Against this backdrop, this manuscript introduces the to our knowledge first thorough map of all involved brain regions in the perception, processing and execution of music, out of the general need of such a map and the knowledge, which can be gained from it.
Consequently, placing thalamic multisensory integration at the core of this atlas allowed to create a preliminary theory to explain the complexity of music induced brain activation, ergo a consecutive network encompassing and explaining the connections between all areas and not only areas of interest in the singularity of different strains of music related research.
&
Music intervention as system: reversing Hyper Systemizing in Autism Spectrum Disorders to the comprehension of music as intervention
This paper seeks to combine the notion of the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory and the resulting twist from the executive dysfunction theory in autism spectrum conditions in light of music intervention as system.
To achieve these points it will be important to re-visit, nonetheless briefly, the above mentioned theories and re-define music intervention in view of these. Our understanding of autism in light of impaired neuropsychological functions, calls for alternatives in the improvement of quality of life for these individuals, moving away from still more disabling pharmaceutical intrusions. Music intervention offers this alternative through its multifaceted cognitive stimulation, lacks however a unified and applicable model. Against this backdrop there is the need to adjust the executive dysfunction theory to a theory of dysfunctioning executive functions (dEF) to understand music intervention, E-S and the mentioned dEF. This in turn allows an insight into the cognitive workings of music on the autistic spectrum.
These notions - based on case reports of both clients and therapists as-well as systematic literature reviews - will create a different understanding of music intervention in this framework, placing the grounding stone in the development of future and existing music intervention programs applied clinically. These applications will evolve around a structuralised approach to music intervention as system, proposing five consecutive systems. (Collectible, Mechanical, Numerical, Natural, Motor and Social). Each of these are holding specific attributes, which reflect behaviors on the autistic spectrum.
It will therefore argue the aspects of expanding existing theories in ASD together with the call for generalised interventions to better assess autism.
Theories have to be updated in a time of fast and ever- changing development; a notion that this paper seeks to argue from a clinical, therapeutic, interventional, cognitive and theoretical point of view.
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Music activates a wide array of neural areas involved in different functions besides the perception, processing and execution of music itself. Understanding musical processes in the brain has had multiple implications in the neuro- and... more
Music activates a wide array of neural areas involved in different functions besides the perception, processing and execution of music itself. Understanding musical processes in the brain has had multiple implications in the neuro- and health sciences.
Engaging the brain with a multisensory stimulus such as music activates responses beyond the temporal lobe. Brain networks involve the frontal lobes, parietal lobes, the limbic system such as the Amygdala, Hippocampus and thalamus, the cerebellum and the brainstem. Nonetheless, there has been no attempt to summarise all involved brain areas in music into one overall encompassing map. This may well be, as there has been no thorough theory introduced, which would allow an initial point of departure in creating such a atlas.
A thorough systematic review has been therefore conducted together with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify all mentioned neural connection involved in the perception, processing and execution of music.
Tracing the direct responses in the involved brain regions back to its origin (the incoming stimulus through the cochlea), neural tracks lead nearly exclusively via the thalamic nuclei. Communication between the thalamic nuclei is the initial step in multisensory integration, which lies at the base of the neural networks as proposed in this paper. Against this backdrop, this manuscript introduces the to our knowledge first thorough map of all involved brain regions in the perception, processing and execution of music, out of the general need of such a map and the knowledge, which can be gained from it.
Consequently, placing thalamic multisensory integration at the core of this atlas allowed to create a preliminary theory to explain the complexity of music induced brain activation, ergo a consecutive network encompassing and explaining the connections between all areas and not only areas of interest in the singularity of different strains of music related research.
Engaging the brain with a multisensory stimulus such as music activates responses beyond the temporal lobe. Brain networks involve the frontal lobes, parietal lobes, the limbic system such as the Amygdala, Hippocampus and thalamus, the cerebellum and the brainstem. Nonetheless, there has been no attempt to summarise all involved brain areas in music into one overall encompassing map. This may well be, as there has been no thorough theory introduced, which would allow an initial point of departure in creating such a atlas.
A thorough systematic review has been therefore conducted together with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify all mentioned neural connection involved in the perception, processing and execution of music.
Tracing the direct responses in the involved brain regions back to its origin (the incoming stimulus through the cochlea), neural tracks lead nearly exclusively via the thalamic nuclei. Communication between the thalamic nuclei is the initial step in multisensory integration, which lies at the base of the neural networks as proposed in this paper. Against this backdrop, this manuscript introduces the to our knowledge first thorough map of all involved brain regions in the perception, processing and execution of music, out of the general need of such a map and the knowledge, which can be gained from it.
Consequently, placing thalamic multisensory integration at the core of this atlas allowed to create a preliminary theory to explain the complexity of music induced brain activation, ergo a consecutive network encompassing and explaining the connections between all areas and not only areas of interest in the singularity of different strains of music related research.
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AIMS Quality assessment of studies is essential for the understanding and application of these in systematic reviews and meta analyses, the two “gold standards” of medical sciences. Publications in scientific journals have extensively... more
AIMS
Quality assessment of studies is essential for the understanding and application of these in systematic reviews and meta analyses, the two “gold standards” of medical sciences. Publications in scientific journals have extensively used assessment scales to address poor methodological quality, forming inclusion criteria or determine sensitivity of controls. Even though these assessments are commonplace in science publications, there is no scale, which assesses the quality of studies in the vast amount of music related sciences.
METHODS
Musiquas is based on the widely used Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomized studies in meta-analyses and was attuned by the authors to fit the demand of quality assessment in music studies and interventions.
Initially 37 scoring points were included into the scale, distributed across the four main groups; Selection, Control criteria, Exposure and Outcome.
These points were included from music studies addressing the importance of aspects in a methodological context and were compared against points used in the NOS excluding points showing methodological flaws against experimental studies as well as against the NOS.
OUTCOMES
The final scale assesses the quality of music studies and intervention on 26 points divided over the four main groups: Selection, Control criteria, Exposure and Outcome applying a 10-point rating.
IMPLICATIONS
Implications for sciences in music are obvious; from being able to assign more methodological value to a study to implications important for policy makers.
Musiquas was published online, prior to this article, to make it available to researchers worldwide. This procedure gives insight into face and content validity of Musiquas, by receiving comments and critiques of fellow researchers. Evaluation of all remarks is currently in progress.
Additionally, Musiquas was piloted in a systematic review on the relationship of music and the transfer effect (Jaschke et al., submitted).
Quality assessment of studies is essential for the understanding and application of these in systematic reviews and meta analyses, the two “gold standards” of medical sciences. Publications in scientific journals have extensively used assessment scales to address poor methodological quality, forming inclusion criteria or determine sensitivity of controls. Even though these assessments are commonplace in science publications, there is no scale, which assesses the quality of studies in the vast amount of music related sciences.
METHODS
Musiquas is based on the widely used Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomized studies in meta-analyses and was attuned by the authors to fit the demand of quality assessment in music studies and interventions.
Initially 37 scoring points were included into the scale, distributed across the four main groups; Selection, Control criteria, Exposure and Outcome.
These points were included from music studies addressing the importance of aspects in a methodological context and were compared against points used in the NOS excluding points showing methodological flaws against experimental studies as well as against the NOS.
OUTCOMES
The final scale assesses the quality of music studies and intervention on 26 points divided over the four main groups: Selection, Control criteria, Exposure and Outcome applying a 10-point rating.
IMPLICATIONS
Implications for sciences in music are obvious; from being able to assign more methodological value to a study to implications important for policy makers.
Musiquas was published online, prior to this article, to make it available to researchers worldwide. This procedure gives insight into face and content validity of Musiquas, by receiving comments and critiques of fellow researchers. Evaluation of all remarks is currently in progress.
Additionally, Musiquas was piloted in a systematic review on the relationship of music and the transfer effect (Jaschke et al., submitted).
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De effecten van muziek op de hersenen zijn een populair en vaak onderzocht gebied. In de afgelopen 20 jaar, zijn methoden en applicaties veranderd om een duidelijker beeld van deze effecten op de hersenen te laten zien. 'Functional... more
De effecten van muziek op de hersenen zijn een populair en vaak onderzocht gebied. In de afgelopen 20 jaar, zijn methoden en applicaties veranderd om een duidelijker beeld van deze effecten op de hersenen te laten zien.
'Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), positron emission tomography (PET) en electroencephalography EEG)' zijn alleen maar vier van de meest gebruikte op dit gebied. Door deze methoden in combinatie met nieuwe media zoals de iPad of moderne computers kunnen de effecten in de hersenen makkelijker zichtbaar gemaakt worden, zijn multilokaal inzetbaar en kunnen bijdragen tot een ontwikkeling van andere meetmethoden bij neuropsychologische testen.
In deze lezing zal ik een overzicht geven van de bovengenoemde neuro-imaging techniques samen met neuropsychologischen testen, aan de hand van voorbeelden in het kader van de effecten van muziek op de zogenaamde 'executive functies' en ontwikkeling van de hersenen bij het autistisch spectrum.
'Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), positron emission tomography (PET) en electroencephalography EEG)' zijn alleen maar vier van de meest gebruikte op dit gebied. Door deze methoden in combinatie met nieuwe media zoals de iPad of moderne computers kunnen de effecten in de hersenen makkelijker zichtbaar gemaakt worden, zijn multilokaal inzetbaar en kunnen bijdragen tot een ontwikkeling van andere meetmethoden bij neuropsychologische testen.
In deze lezing zal ik een overzicht geven van de bovengenoemde neuro-imaging techniques samen met neuropsychologischen testen, aan de hand van voorbeelden in het kader van de effecten van muziek op de zogenaamde 'executive functies' en ontwikkeling van de hersenen bij het autistisch spectrum.
Vaktherapie zoals muziek, kunst, dans en drama, hebben een lange en succesvolle geschiedenis. Helaas mist het effect van deze vorm van therapie empirische bewijzen. Onderzoek en resultaten in deze discipline zijn niet sufficiënt... more
Vaktherapie zoals muziek, kunst, dans en drama,
hebben een lange en succesvolle geschiedenis. Helaas
mist het effect van deze vorm van therapie empirische
bewijzen. Onderzoek en resultaten in deze discipline zijn
niet sufficiënt en specifiek over de effecten op de
menselijke cognitie en hersenontwikkeling is weinig
bekend. Vaak zijn de resultaten gebaseerd op verhalen
en persoonlijke ervaringen, en niet op empirische feiten.
Deze lezing zal een introductie geven op de ten
grondslag liggende mechanismen en effecten van deze
vormen van therapie op het menselijk brein en welke
hersenengebieden en neurale systemen hierbij
betrokken zijn. Het zal tevens aantonen dat deze vormen
van vaktherapie meer aandacht in empirisch onderzoek
en onderwijs krijgt en het een essentiële vorm van
interventie blijkt.
hebben een lange en succesvolle geschiedenis. Helaas
mist het effect van deze vorm van therapie empirische
bewijzen. Onderzoek en resultaten in deze discipline zijn
niet sufficiënt en specifiek over de effecten op de
menselijke cognitie en hersenontwikkeling is weinig
bekend. Vaak zijn de resultaten gebaseerd op verhalen
en persoonlijke ervaringen, en niet op empirische feiten.
Deze lezing zal een introductie geven op de ten
grondslag liggende mechanismen en effecten van deze
vormen van therapie op het menselijk brein en welke
hersenengebieden en neurale systemen hierbij
betrokken zijn. Het zal tevens aantonen dat deze vormen
van vaktherapie meer aandacht in empirisch onderzoek
en onderwijs krijgt en het een essentiële vorm van
interventie blijkt.