CZ:Guidel 2008 summer course on Music and Brain

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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 Reference IIa, Reference IIb test comment
Sep 8 Musical syntax Johanna Jedamzik Test user 2 Reference Ia, Reference Ib test comment
Musical semantics Test user 1 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 Test user 1 Test user 2 Reference Ia, Reference Ib concentrate on cognitive and motor aspects
Popular music Test user 1 Test user 2 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 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 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 test comment
Origin of music J. Ulrich Steiger Test user 2 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:

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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:

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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. Developing Article 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. Developing Article Musical semantics: The study of how music conveys meaning. [e] (Inscription in table above)
  3. Ethnomusicology: The study of music in its cultural context. [e] (Test user would like to collaborate)
  4. Music universals: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)

Brain

  1. Developing Article Neuroimaging: A group of techniques used to visualize structure and function of nervous systems, especially the vertebrate brain. [e] (Inscription in table above)
  2. Stub 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. Developing Article 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. Developing Article History of music psychology research: Description of the historical development of research in music psychology. [e]
  2. Developing Article 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. Stub Music production: Principles of generating sounds and music. [e] (Inscription in table above)
  4. Stub Music and emotion: An overview of the intricate relationships between music and emotion. [e] (Inscription in table above)
  5. Developing Article Music and disease: Add brief definition or description (Inscription in table above)
  6. Developing Article Music therapy: The planned and creative use of music to attain and maintain health and well being. [e] (Inscription in table above)
  7. Stub 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)
    • Music reading: Add brief definition or description (Test user would like to collaborate)
    • Developing Article Poetry: A form of literary work which uses rhythm, metre, and sound elements (such as assonance or dissonance) to structure, amplify, and in some instances supplant the literal meanings of words. [e] (concentrate on cognitive aspects; Test user would like to collaborate)
    • Prosody: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Prosody (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed. (concentrate on cognitive aspects; Test user would like to collaborate)

Biomusicology

  1. Stub Vocal learning: The ability of an organism to imitate sounds not inborn to it. [e] (Inscription in table above)
  2. Developing Article Origin of music: Add brief definition or description (Inscription in table above)
  3. Developing Article Human uniqueness: Add brief definition or description (Inscription in table above)

Further suggested contributions

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