Keeping Mozart in Mind (eBook)

Gordon L. Shaw (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2003 | 2. Auflage
400 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-050970-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The demand for math and science skills in our technology-driven world is at a premium, and yet U.S. students continue to lag behind many other industrialized countries in these areas. This book, based on studies conducted on 8000 elementary school-aged children, proposes that not only is there a relationship between music and math comprehension, but that music can be utilized to heighten higher brain function and improve math skills. The enclosed CD-Rom includes (1) a recording of Allegro con spirito from Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu, courtesy of Sony ClassicalTM, and (2) a descriptive interactive version of S.T.A.R.TM (Spatial-Temporal Animation Reasoning) software program. While this book's discussion of the breakthroughs in understanding of spatial-temporal reasoning abilities will be of particular interest to neuroscientists and cognitive researchers, the book is also accessible to parents and educators.

* Presents the theory that music exercises higher brain function and can enhance math comprehension
* Details how music training coupled with special-temporal reasoning (thinking in pictures) can dramatically impact a child's ability to understand and master math
* Includes an interactive CD-ROM with math games

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Keeping Mozart in Mind 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Foreword 10
Preface to the First Edition 12
Preface to the Second Edition 14
Acknowlegments 16
Prologue 20
Part I: Higher Brain Function: Music, Mathematics, Chess 28
Chapter 1. History, Anecdotes, Correlations, and Interviews 30
Chapter 2. Spatial-Temporal and Language-Analytic Reasoning in Learning Math and Science 44
Chapter 3. Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning 56
Chapter 4. Implications: Scientific, Educational, Clinical 62
Part II: Structured Brain and Symmetry 68
Chapter 5. Symmetry as a Common Theme 70
Chapter 6. Introduction to the Brain: Basic Brain Features and Brain Imaging 80
Chapter 7. Mountcastle Theory of Mammalian Cortex: Internal Neural Language of Higher Brain Function 100
Chapter 8. Trion Model and Symmetries 114
Chapter 9. Trion Music: Reasoning and Creativity 148
Chapter 10. Trion Model of Higher Brain Function: Prediction that Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning 168
Part III: Tests of Predictions in Human Behavior 172
Chapter 11. Highly Accurate Mental Rehearsals: Correlation with Top Performance in Sports 174
Chapter 12. Listening to Mozart Sonata (K.448) Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning: The ‘‘Mozart Effect’’ 186
Chapter 13. Music Training Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning in Preschool Children 196
Chapter 14. Music Training Plus Spatial-Temporal Training Equals Improved Math 212
Part IV: Tests from Brain Imaging and Animal Studies 230
Chapter 15. EEG and fMRI Studies of the Mozart Effect 232
Chapter 16. Symmetry in Primate Higher Brain Function 238
Chapter 17. Musical Structure of the Internal Neural Language of the Brain: Using Music as the Rosetta Stone to Help Decode this Internal Language 256
Chapter 18. Animal Behavior While Listening to Music and Doing Higher Brain Functions 266
Part V: The Future of Music as a Window into Higher Brain Function 280
Chapter 19. Child Brain Development and Adult Brain Reorganization 282
Chapter 20. Education: Music Training Plus Spatial-Temporal Training Improves Math 296
Chapter 21. Clinical Implications 308
Chapter 22. The Spatial-Temporal Thinking Machine 322
Chapter 23. Thoughts 328
Part VI: New Scientific and Educational Results 350
Chapter 24. Science Updates and Breakthroughs 352
Chapter 25. Revolution in Math Education 368
Glossary 384
Notes 396
References 414
Index 428

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.11.2003
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-050970-3 / 0080509703
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-050970-9 / 9780080509709