General Foreword

Does a Mother Singing to her Premature Baby Affect Feeding in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?

“…The rest, perhaps half, gave no reason for their decision not to participate. For many of them, the problem seemed to be inherent shyness/inhibition concerning singing or the NICU environment, which lacks privacy and can (2), "sang a book," "sang with the radio" *Indicates the song was listed on the handout); numbers in parentheses indicate the number of trials in which a song was used.…”

“…M usic has long held a privileged place among complementary therapies and attempts to understand its physiologic effects and future possibilities are creating a robust literature. 1,2 The effects of music on neonates-especially premature infants-has been a special focus of attention. [7][8][9] Recent studies indicate that neonates and even fetuses in utero are capable of responding to music in measurable ways and that music can help stimulate developmental progress.…”

Active imaginative listening—a neuromusical critique

“…In a quick sampling of sources, (ex. Hodges, 1996; Avazini et al, 2003, 2005; Peretz and Zatorre, 2003; Bella et al, 2009; Overy et al, 2012), one can find a range of motivations. For some, the object is to learn more about the brain, and music provides a particularly rich stimulus domain with which to study it.…”

Citation index and scientific production on the neuroscience of music: A bibliometric study.

“…), and other communication media (Pritchard, 1969). The present analysis takes into account papers from the year 1977 onward, the year of publication of the book Music and the Brain: Studies in the Neurology of Music by MacDonald Critchley and Ronald Alfred Henson (1977), which was a pioneering landmark in the study of Music and Neurology (Avanzini et al, 2003). The publication of this book could be considered an example of the early beginnings of the field of Music Neuroscience.…”

“…Early this century, experts were already talking of the previous decade’s “explosion” in research on music and the brain despite that the Neuroscience of Music was still considered an emerging discipline (Zatorre & Peretz, 2001). A few years later, there were discussions of the rapid evolution of these studies (Avanzini, Faienza, Lopez, Majno, & Minciacchi, 2003) and even it was talked of a real “boom” in which contributions to scientific literature multiplied at breakneck speed (Avanzini, Lopez, Koelsch, & Majno, 2005). Following this argument, in a conference that took place in Montreal in 2008 (Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity), members then saw themselves as a well-established scientific community (Zatorre, Peretz, & Penhune, 2009).…”