Parkinson’s disease is characterized not only by bradykinesia, rigidity, and tremor, but also by impairments of expressive and receptive linguistic prosody. The facilitating effect of music with a salient beat on patients’ gait suggests that it might have a similar effect on vocal behavior, however it …

In deze scriptie is er een onderzoek gedaan naar hechtingsproblematieken bij jongeren tussen de 12 en 18 jaar oud met een licht verstandelijke beperking. Daarnaast is er gekeken naar het ontstaan van hechting bij mensen met een licht verstandelijke beperking en wat voor invloed dat heeft op de psychische …

This essay addresses the relationship of improvisation and identity. Biographical research that was conducted by the author into professional musicians’ lifelong learning showed the huge importance of improvisation for personal expression. Musically, the concept of sound appeared to serve as a strong …

Het doel van deze module is de afname van gecompliceerde rouw bij jongeren. Na het volgen van de therapie moeten jongeren de draad van het leven weer op kunnen pakken en opnieuw kunnen genieten van het leven. Door middel van improvised songwriting worden jongeren in staat gesteld om met behulp van improvisatie …

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

Classical musicians are a unique population. Unlike other musicians, they learn their skills with the use of sheet music, right from the beginning. Investigation of brain response may help us understand how educational methods influence learning in this group of musicians. In this study, we hypothesized …

Biography, identity, improvisation, sound.

Using fMRI, cerebral activations were studied in 24 classically-trained keyboard performers and 12 musically unskilled control subjects. Two groups of musicians were recruited: improvising (n=12) and score-dependent (non-improvising) musicians (n=12). While listening to both familiar and unfamiliar music, …