Skip Navigation


Brain Advance Access originally published online on July 15, 2006
Brain 2006 129(10):2533-2553; doi:10.1093/brain/awl171
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Supplementary Data
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
129/10/2533    most recent
awl171v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (19)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Stewart, L.
Right arrow Articles by Griffiths, T. D.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Stewart, L.
Right arrow Articles by Griffiths, T. D.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author (2006). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Guarantors of Brain. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Review Articles

Music and the brain: disorders of musical listening

Lauren Stewart1,2,3, Katharina von Kriegstein1,3, Jason D. Warren4 and Timothy D. Griffiths1,3

1 Auditory Group, Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, London, UK 2 Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London London, UK 3 Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London London, UK 4 Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, University College London London, UK

Correspondence to: Tim Griffiths, Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Newcastle General Hospital, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE, UK E-mail: t.d.griffiths{at}ncl.ac.uk

The study of the brain bases for normal musical listening has advanced greatly in the last 30 years. The evidence from basic and clinical neuroscience suggests that listening to music involves many cognitive components with distinct brain substrates. Using patient cases reported in the literature, we develop an approach for understanding disordered musical listening that is based on the systematic assessment of the perceptual and cognitive analysis of music and its emotional effect. This approach can be applied both to acquired and congenital deficits of musical listening, and to aberrant listening in patients with musical hallucinations. Both the bases for normal musical listening and the clinical assessment of disorders now have a solid grounding in systems neuroscience.

Key Words: brain disorders; lesions; listening; music

Abbreviations: HG, Heschl's gyrus; MBEA, Montreal battery for the evaluation of amusia; MEG, magnetoencephalography; PAC, primary auditory cortex; PT, planum temporale; SPET, single photon emission tomography

Received February 14, 2006. Revised May 8, 2006. Accepted May 31, 2006.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 BrainHome page
R. Omar, J. C. Hailstone, J. E. Warren, S. J. Crutch, and J. D. Warren
The cognitive organization of music knowledge: a clinical analysis
Brain, February 8, 2010; (2010) awp345v1.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Music and MedicineHome page
T. Tenyi, P. Moricz, J. Stefanits, P. Barsi, and J. Janszky
Coexistent Acquired Hearing Loss and Right Fronto-Parietal Meningioma as Causes of Musical Hallucinations
Music and Medicine, October 1, 2009; 1(2): 97 - 101.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Cereb CortexHome page
S. J. Wilson, D. Lusher, C. Y. Wan, P. Dudgeon, and D. C. Reutens
The Neurocognitive Components of Pitch Processing: Insights from Absolute Pitch
Cereb Cortex, March 1, 2009; 19(3): 724 - 732.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Postgrad. Med. J.Home page
A Ashoori and J Jankovic
Mozart's movements and behaviour: a case of Tourette's syndrome?
Postgrad. Med. J., June 1, 2008; 84(992): 313 - 317.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 J. Neurol. Neurosurg. PsychiatryHome page
A. Ashoori and J. Jankovic
Mozart's movements and behaviour: a case of Tourette's syndrome?
J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry, November 1, 2007; 78(11): 1171 - 1175.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 J. Neurol. Neurosurg. PsychiatryHome page
M Satoh, M Kokubo, and S Kuzuhara
A case of idiopathic musical hallucination with increasing repertoire
J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry, February 1, 2007; 78(2): 203 - 204.
[Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.