Music, motor control and the brain / edited by Eckart Altenmüller, Mario Wiesendanger, Jurg Kesselring

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part 1: History. Historical increases in expert music performance skills: optimising instruments, playing techniques and training / Andreas C. Lehmann -- Part 2: Psychology. From cognition to action / Lutz Jäncke ; The nature of memory for music performance skills / Caroline Palmer ; Musical synchronization / Bruno H. Repp -- Part 3: Movement analysis. Hand movements and musical performance / Thomas E. Jerde, Marco Santello, Martha Flanders and John F. Soechting ; Movement analysis in pianists / Hans-Christian Jabusch ; Fingering and bowing in violinists: a motor control approach / Mario Wiesendanger, Andreas Baader and Oleg Kazennikov ; Movements and analysis of drumming / Sofia Dahl -- Part 4: Representation in the Brain. Brain structures of musicians: executive functions and morphological implications / Gottfried Schlaug ; The motor representation in pianists and string players / Lutz Jäncke ; Brain activation during piano playing / Marc Bangert ; Brain activation during string playing / Arto Nirkko and Rumyana Kristeva ; 'Singing in the (b)rain': cerebral correlates of vocal music performance in humans / Hermann Ackermann, Dirk Wildgruber and Axel Riecker ; Sensory motor networks in singing and speaking: a comparative approach / Reyna Leigh Gordon, Amelie Racette and Daniele Schon ; The role of inhibition in the motor control of finger function / Christian Gerloff and Friedhelm Hummel -- Part 5: Apollo's curse : the loss of motor control in musicians. The end of the song? Robert Schumann's focal dystonia / Eckart Altenmüeller ; Epidemiology, phenomenology and therapy of musician's cramp / Hans-Christian Jabusch and Eckart Altenmüeller ; The neurophysiology of focal hand dystonia in musicians / Karin Rosenkranz ; The development of focal dystonia in musicians as a consequence of maladaptive plasticity: implications for intervention / Nancy Byl and Alberto Priori ; Music performance anxiety / Jurg Kesselring