Keeping Mozart in Mind

San Diego: Academic, 2000. Octavo in yellow glossy, color illus boards; xx, 374 p.: ill. (some col.); 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM As New. CD-ROM still sealed in pocket at rear. Very Fine. Hardcover. ISBN: 0126392900

Contents: Higher brain function: music, mathematics, chess. History, anecdotes, correlations, and interviews; Spatial-temporal and language-analytic reasoning in learning math and science; Music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning; Implications: scientific, educational, clinical -- Structured brain and symmetry. Symmetry as a common theme; Introduction to the brain: basic brain features and brain imaging; Mountcastle theory of mammalian cortex: internal neural language of higher brain function; Trion model and symmetries; Trion music: reasoning and creativity; Trion model of higher brain function: prediction that music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning -- Tests of predictions in human behavior. Highly accurate mental rehearsals: correlation with top performance in sports; Listening to Mozart Sonata (K.448) enhances spatial-temporal reasoning: the "Mozart effect"; Music training enhances spatial-temporal reasoning in preschool children; Music training plus spatial-temporal training equals improved math -- Tests from brain imaging and animal studies. EEG and fMRI studies of Mozart effect; Symmetry in primate higher brain function; Musical structure of the internal neural language of the brain: using music as the Rosetta stone to help decode this internal language; Animal behavior while listening to music and doing higher brain functions -- The future of music as a window into higher brain function. Child brain development and adult brain reorganization; Education: music training plus spatial-temporal training improves math; Clinical implications; The spatial-temporal thinking machine; Final thoughts. Music therapy. Music -- Physiological effect. Higher Nervous Activity -- physiology. Learning -- physiology. Music. Space Perception -- physiology. Time Perception -- physiology.