Resonating References

Below are some research articles relevant to my most recent Goleta Grapevine column, A Resonating Resource which ever-so-lightly touches on neurocognition and music.

Research Articles:

Zatorre RJ. Absolute pitch: a model for understanding the influence of genes and development on neural and cognitive function. Nat Neurosci. 2003

Jul;6(7):692-5.

Cuddy LL, Balkwill LL, Peretz I, Holden RR. Musical difficulties are rare: a study of "tone deafness" among university students. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005

Dec;1060:311-24.

Patel AD. Language, music, syntax and the brain. Nat Neurosci. 2003

Jul;6(7):674-81.

* Forgeard M, Winner E, Norton A, Schlaug G. Practicing a musical instrument in childhood is associated with enhanced verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning.

PLoS One. 2008;3(10):e3566.

* Ross D, Choi J, Purves D. Musical intervals in speech. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.

2007 Jun 5;104(23):9852-7.

* Moreno S, Marques C, Santos A, Santos M, Castro SL, Besson M. Musical training influences linguistic abilities in 8-year-old children: more evidence for brain plasticity.

Cereb Cortex. 2009 Mar;19(3):712-23.

Parbery-Clark A, Skoe E, Kraus N. Musical experience limits the degradative effects of background noise on the neural processing of sound. J Neurosci. 2009

Nov 11;29(45):14100-7.

Bowling DL, Gill K, Choi JD, Prinz J, Purves D. Major and minor music compared to excited and subdued speech.

J Acoust Soc Am. 2010 Jan;127(1):491-503. 

*articles are publicly available

Lapses and Invigorations

While I have been preoccupied with employment and parenthood, Stimulating Aliquot, the chickens, garden, compost, zombie novel, sourdough starter, surfing and the like have been somewhat neglected. Fortunately, in February I began contributing to the Goleta Grapevine, a column at the Santa Barbara Independent and, as a consequence, am reinvigorating the blog. Stimulating Aliquot will still relate everyday happens to science news but now will also serve as a supplementary venue for ongoing writing projects.

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