CZ:Guidel 2008 summer course on Music and Brain

About

This page serves as a central forum for the Music and Brain course at the Guidel 2008 summer academy of the German National Merit Foundation.

The course is organized by Daniel Mietchen (Citizendium page/ lab page) and Stefan Koelsch (Citizendium page/ lab page).

It has two major aims – it seeks to provide participants with

• an up-to-date overview about how the brain perceives and produces music (and how these processes can be investigated) and
• an insider experience in a cross-disciplinary collaborative learning environment.

The task for each participant is to give a presentation on a topic relevant to music perception and cognition (see list below), and to assist at least one other participant in the preparation of their presentation.

Further than that, we wish to encourage participants to share the knowledge they gain in the preparation of their talks, preferably by creating an encyclopedic wiki entry about their respective topics. The language of the course will be German, and so the German Wikipedia would be one option for sharing but Wikipedia has a number of drawbacks, most notably vandalism, whereas Citizendium's policy (e.g. requiring real names) drastically reduces or effectively eliminates such problems. Most of the topics covered in the course do not have an entry yet in either of the Wikipedias or Citizendium, while the few entries that exist are of rather poor quality or very short, such that they will have to be re-written or expanded anyway. Under these circumstances, we deem Citizendium (which currently has only an English language version) to be most suited for the course.

Since we have 26 participants and only 20 sessions, there might be two presentations in some sessions, or those who do not present any topic can engage in other activities, e.g. by providing suitable video materials to the presenters or by spell-checking and expanding the course's Citizendium entries. German will be allowed on this page and its subpages.

Timeline

30 June 2008 -- Topic selection

4 July 2008 -- References due

31 July 2008 -- Rough draft due

31 August 2008 -- Final draft due

7-20 September 2008 -- Guidel summer academy (9-13h on working days, with a coffee break around 10.30-11.00, hence ca. 2x90min)

Course schedule: The topics have been defined now, except for the BU-labeled "buffer" session whose focus we will adjust once everyone have chosen how to contribute-- preferably once as presenter and once as collaborator. To sign up for a topic (once you are registered, see below), replace the "Test user" placeholders with ~~~ (these three tildes will then automatically be converted into your user name). Some suggestions for subtopics suitable for collaboration are listed below. The "primary sources" refer to papers mentioned on the Bibliography subpage.

Date	Topic	Presenter	Collaborator(s)	primary sources	comments
Sep 7	History of music psychology research	Ulrich Terstiege	Eva Wollrab	Reference Ia, Reference Ib	test comment
	Neuroimaging	Johannes Reinhard	Stephan.Hohmann	Logothetis 2008, Gaser 2003, Steinbeis 2008	concentrate on methods useful to study music cognition
Sep 8	Musical syntax	Johanna Jedamzik	[[User:Friederike Lutz|Friederike Lutz],Patrick Fornaro]	Reference Ia, Reference Ib	focus on cognitive aspects
	Musical semantics	Michael Wenzel	Johanna Jedamzik	Reference IIa, Reference IIb	test comment
Sep 9	Brain development	Eva Weig	Julia M. Nakagawa	Reference Ia, Reference Ib	test comment
	Brain evolution	Annemarie Brunswicker	Michael Wenzel, Ulrich Terstiege	Reference Ia, Reference Ib	test comment
Sep 10	Dance	Patricia Buescher	Test user 2	Reference Ia, Reference Ib	concentrate on cognitive and motor aspects
	Popular music	Dorothea Platz	Martin Schorb	Reference IIa, Reference IIb	focus on what social and cognitive processes make music popular
Sep 11	Brain function	Julia M. Nakagawa	Céline Wasmer	Reference Ia, Reference Ib	test comment
	Brain plasticity	Natalia Drost	Test user 2	Reference IIa, Reference IIb	test comment
Sep 14	Music perception	Felipe Gerhard	Katharina Höllerhage	Reference Ia, Reference Ib	test comment
	Music production	Martin Schorb	Johannes Reinhard	Reference IIa, Reference IIb	test comment
Sep 15	Music and emotion	Markus Brandstetter	Patricia Buescher Friederike Lutz	Reference Ia, Reference Ib	test comment
	Music and disease	Dorothea Kluczniok	Felipe Gerhard	Reference IIa, Reference IIb	test comment
Sep 16	Music therapy	Katharina Höllerhage	J. Ulrich Steiger, Patrick Fornaro	Reference Ia, Reference Ib	test comment
	Language and music	Stephan.Hohmann	Annemarie Brunswicker	Reference IIa, Reference IIb	test comment
Sep 17	Vocal learning	Maria Jakuszeit	Céline Wasmer	Fitch 2006, Jarvis 2007, Janik 1997	test comment
	Origin of music	J. Ulrich Steiger	Maria Jakuszeit	Reference IIa, Reference IIb	test comment
Sep 18	Human uniqueness	Eva Wollrab	Test user 2	Reference Ia, Reference Ib	test comment
	BU	Test user 1	Test user 2	Reference IIa, Reference IIb	test comment

Getting registered

Go to Special:RequestAccount and fill in the form provided there. Some additional hints:

Form field	Suggested input	Comments
User account/ Position	author	You can change that later.
Main areas of interest	Eduzendium	You can choose more and always change that.
Personal information/ Biography for your public user page	I am a student of X in Z (place, country) and wish to contribute to articles about Music and Brain.	You can always extend this later. Citizendium user pages are publicly visible but not indexed by search machines.
Other information/ Additional notes	Guidel 2008

If you have problems to register, please describe them here (Wikiversity page, so no registration required).

Writing instructions

If you have never edited a wiki page, you may wish to read CZ:Quick Start and to play around a bit in the Citizendium sandbox or this course's sandbox -- you can't do any harm by changing anything in either of these. For those experienced in editing at Wikipedia, a look at the differences might be of interest.

CZ:How to edit an article gives general instructions on how to edit Citizendium pages. Please make use of the preview button before you submit a page you have edited. Remember we are creating an encyclopedia here, and so the individual articles should be informative as well as nicely phrased and illustrated. They should cover all aspects relevant to the topic such that an interested lay reader (imagine yourself as an undergraduate) can digest it and find suitable references for in-depth study. In contrast to Wikipedia, Citizendium makes use of subpages for these purposes. This is achieved by placing the command "{{Subpages}}" at the top of your article and following the instructions that show up after saving the page (see Music and disease and its metadata subpage for an example).

If you want to invite other Citizendium authors (everybody here) or editors (a subset of everybody, with specialist knowledge in some area) to join you in working on your article, add this text: "{{EZarticle-open-auto‎}}" (just what's inside the "'s) just below the "{{Subpages}}". It produces this notice:

This article is currently being developed as part of an Eduzendium student project. One of the goals of the course is to provide students with insider experience in collaborative educational projects, and so you are warmly invited to join in here, or to leave comments on the discussion page. However, please refrain from removing this notice. Besides, many other Eduzendium articles welcome your collaboration!

We strongly encourage such collaborative editing (this explicitly includes inviting fellow students, friends or experts to work with you on the subject) but if you want to make sure no other Citizendium authors or editors do anything to your article while you are working on it, add this text: "{{EZarticle-closed-auto‎}}" (just what's inside the "'s) just below the "{{Subpages}}". It produces this notice:

This article is currently being developed as part of an Eduzendium student project. If you are not involved with this project, please refrain from collaboratively developing it until this notice is removed. Articles that lack this notice, including many Eduzendium ones, welcome your collaboration!

Please also keep in mind that copyright restrictions may allow you to use some materials for your presentation but not here. If you are uncomfortable with writing encyclopedially in English, we suggest to concentrate on providing facts, references and figures for articles written by others.

List of topics

A list of topics envisaged for the presentations follows below (an explanation of the colours and icons associated with an article is here). Other relevant topics are listed here. The topics are structured at three levels: The first one is meant to indicate the broad topic, the presentations should focus on the second level (the one with numbers), while contributions by the collaborators could perhaps most effectively be done on the third level. Comments and further suggestions welcome. There might also be contributors who concentrate on populating the CZ:Subpages across topics.

If you are interested in one of these topics, please sign up by replacing the "Test user" placeholders with ~~~ (these three tildes will then automatically be converted into your user name).

Music

1.  Musical syntax: A set of culture-specific rules underlying the composition and interpretation of music and often dance, too. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)
2.  Musical semantics: The study of how music conveys meaning. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)

Brain

1.  Neuroimaging: A group of techniques used to visualize structure and function of nervous systems, especially the vertebrate brain. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)
2.  Brain development: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons, glia and blood vessels. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)
3.  Brain evolution: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)
4. Brain function: Add brief definition or description (Inscription in table above)

Music cognition

1.  History of music psychology research: Description of the historical development of research in music psychology. ^[e]
2.  Music perception: The study of the neural mechanisms involved in people perceiving rhythms, melodies, harmonies and other musical features. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)
3.  Music production: Principles of generating sounds and music. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)
4.  Music and emotion: An overview of the intricate relationships between music and emotion. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)
5.  Music and disease: Add brief definition or description (Inscription in table above)
6.  Music therapy: The planned and creative use of music to attain and maintain health and well being. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)
7.  Language and music: Forms of communication that has a number of common neurobiological, evolutionary and formal similarities and at the same time differing in syntax and meaning. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)

Biomusicology

1.  Vocal learning: The ability of an organism to imitate sounds not inborn to it. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)
2.  Origin of music: The evolutionary background of the human capacity for music. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)
3.  Human uniqueness: A theoretical concept in evolutionary studies, often used in discussions about the evolution of biological traits found in humans. ^[e] (Inscription in table above)

Further suggested contributions

Calls for help

Please list here anything in which you would need help. Be precise."

• Test problem

Subtopics

• Amusia: An umbrella term for brain disorders affecting music perception and production. ^[e] (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Auditory cortex: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Auditory illusions: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
•  Auditory system: A sensory system used by animals for the processing of sound pressure variation. ^[e] (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Babbling: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Birdsong: Vocalizations that birds learn. ^[e] (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Cochlea: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
•  Ear: The organ that detects sound. ^[e] (Test user would like to collaborate)
•  Entrainment: The synchronization of different individual organisms to an external rhythm, usually in the framework of social interactions. ^[e] (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Ethnomusicology: The study of music in its cultural context. ^[e] (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Focal dystonia: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• FOXP2: A regulatory gene on human chromosome 7, involved in language disorders. ^[e] (Test user would like to collaborate)
•  Harmony: Simultaneous pitches (tones, notes), or chords used in making music. ^[e] (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Larynx: The primary organ for sound production in mammals; also protects the trachea. ^[e] (Test User would like to collaborate)
• Limbic system: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Mirror neuron: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)s
• Modularity of the mind: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Music as a tool: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to contribute)
  • (cf., e.g., this paper or this one)
• Music and education: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to contribute)
  • e.g. Campbell, P.S. (2003). "Ethnomusicology and Music Education: Crossroads for knowing music, education, and culture". Research Studies in Music Education 21 (1): 16. DOI:10.1177/1321103X030210010201. Research Blogging.

• Music classification: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Music composition: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Music description: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Music education: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to contribute)
• Music in education: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to contribute)
• Music performance: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Music reading: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Music universals: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
•  Musical instrument: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Noise: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to contribute)
• Physiological effects of music: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
•  Poetry: Add brief definition or description (concentrate on cognitive aspects; Test user would like to collaborate)
• Prosody: Add brief definition or description (concentrate on cognitive aspects; Test user would like to collaborate)
• Respiration control: Add brief definition or description (Test User would like to collaborate)
• Rhythm: Add brief definition or description ( Martin Schorb would like to collaborate)
• Social functions of music: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Sound description: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to contribute)
• Specific language impairment: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Tourette syndrome: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
• Unsolved problems in music psychology: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to contribute)
• Williams syndrome: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)

Services

• Proof-reading of the seminar's articles for grammar, spelling and style (Test user would like to contribute)
• Providing the seminar's articles with Bibliographies (Test user would like to contribute)
• Providing the seminar's articles with External links (Test user would like to contribute)
• Providing the seminar's articles with Video material (Test user would like to contribute)
• Providing the seminar's articles with Audio material (Test user would like to contribute)
• Providing the seminar's articles with Music scores (Test user would like to contribute)
• Providing the seminar's articles with Illustrations (Test user would like to contribute)
• Providing the seminar's articles with Related Articles (Test user would like to contribute)
• Anything else (please give details)

Other useful information

• General literature recommendations:
  • The online version of "Nature" currently features a series of essays about music and the brain (recommended by Felipe Gerhard).
• Tools
• Testimonials for past Eduzendium project at Citizendium and similar projects in English Wikipedia

• Citizendium licence

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