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 (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
- an insider experience in a 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. German will be allowed on this page and its subpages, though.
Timeline
30 June 2008 -- Topic selection 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)
Date | Topic | Presenter | Collaborator(s) | primary sources | comments |
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Sep 7 | Thema I | Name Ia | Name Ib | Reference Ia, Reference Ib | test comment vormittags |
Thema II | Name IIa | Name IIb | Reference IIa, Reference IIb | test comment nachmittags | |
Sep 8 | Thema I | Name Ia | Name Ib | Reference Ia, Reference Ib | test comment vormittags |
Thema II | Name IIa | Name IIb | Reference IIa, Reference IIb | test comment nachmittags | |
Sep 9 | Thema I | Name Ia | Name Ib | Reference Ia, Reference Ib | test comment vormittags |
Thema II | Name IIa | Name IIb | Reference IIa, Reference IIb | test comment nachmittags | |
Sep 10 | Thema I | Name Ia | Name Ib | Reference Ia, Reference Ib | test comment vormittags |
Thema II | Name IIa | Name IIb | Reference IIa, Reference IIb | test comment nachmittags | |
Sep 11 | Thema I | Name Ia | Name Ib | Reference Ia, Reference Ib | test comment vormittags |
Thema II | Name IIa | Name IIb | Reference IIa, Reference IIb | test comment nachmittags | |
Sep 14 | Thema I | Name Ia | Name Ib | Reference Ia, Reference Ib | test comment vormittags |
Thema II | Name IIa | Name IIb | Reference IIa, Reference IIb | test comment nachmittags | |
Sep 15 | Thema I | Name Ia | Name Ib | Reference Ia, Reference Ib | test comment vormittags |
Thema II | Name IIa | Name IIb | Reference IIa, Reference IIb | test comment nachmittags | |
Sep 16 | Thema I | Name Ia | Name Ib | Reference Ia, Reference Ib | test comment vormittags |
Thema II | Name IIa | Name IIb | Reference IIa, Reference IIb | test comment nachmittags | |
Sep 17 | Thema I | Name Ia | Name Ib | Reference Ia, Reference Ib | test comment vormittags |
Thema II | Name IIa | Name IIb | Reference IIa, Reference IIb | test comment nachmittags | |
Sep 18 | Thema I | Name Ia | Name Ib | Reference Ia, Reference Ib | test comment vormittags |
Thema II | Name IIa | Name IIb | Reference IIa, Reference IIb | test comment nachmittags |
Writing instructions
CZ:How to edit an article gives general instructions on how to edit Citizendium pages. 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.
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}}" at the top of your article page. It produces this notice:
Besides, many other Eduzendium articles welcome your collaboration! |
We strongly encourage such collaborative editing but if you want to make sure no other Citizendium authors or editors does 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}}" at the top of your article. It produces this notice:
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.
List of possible topics
A tentative list of topics (in alphabetical order; will have to be rearranged and shortened to about 20) for the presentations follows below (an explanation of the colours and icons associated with an article is here). Other relevant topics are listed here. Comments and further suggestions welcome.
- Acoustic perception: Add brief definition or description
- Amusia: An umbrella term for brain disorders affecting music perception and production. [e]
- Amygdala: Add brief definition or description
- Auditory cortex: Add brief definition or description
- Auditory illusions: Add brief definition or description
- Auditory system: A sensory system used by animals for the processing of sound pressure variation. [e]
- Babbling: Add brief definition or description
- Basal ganglia: A cluster of nerve cell bodies at the base of the forebrain in vertebrates. [e]
- Biomusicology: The study of biological aspects of music perception and production. [e]
- Brain: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
- Brain development: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons, glia and blood vessels. [e]
- Brain evolution: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. [e]
- Brain morphometry: The quantitative study of structures in the brain, their differences between individuals, correlations with brain function, and changes of these characteristics over time. [e]
- Brain structure: Add brief definition or description
- Broca's area: Add brief definition or description
- Deep homology: Add brief definition or description
- Ear: The organ that detects sound. [e]
- Emotion: A psychophysiological process underlying the interpretation of situations or objects by an animal. [e]
- Ethnomusicology: The study of music in its cultural context. [e]
- Focal dystonia: Add brief definition or description
- FOXP2: A regulatory gene on human chromosome 7, involved in language disorders. [e]
- Gestalt theory: Add brief definition or description
- Harmony: Simultaneous pitches (tones, notes), or chords used in making music. [e]
- Heschl's gyrus: Add brief definition or description
- History of music: Add brief definition or description
- History of music research: Add brief definition or description
- Human uniqueness: A theoretical concept in evolutionary studies, often used in discussions about the evolution of biological traits found in humans. [e]
- 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]
- Larynx: The primary organ for sound production in mammals; also protects the trachea. [e]
- Mirror neuron: Add brief definition or descriptions
- Modularity of the mind: Add brief definition or description
- Music cognition: Add brief definition or description
- Music perception: The study of the neural mechanisms involved in people perceiving rhythms, melodies, harmonies and other musical features. [e]
- Music production: Principles of generating sounds and music. [e]
- Music semantics: Add brief definition or description
- Music syntax: Add brief definition or description
- Music universal: Add brief definition or descriptions
- Musical instrument: Add brief definition or description
- Neuroimaging: Add brief definition or description
- Origin of language: Add brief definition or description
- Origin of music: Add brief definition or description
- Pitch (music): Add brief definition or description
- Prosody: Add brief definition or description
- Psychology: Add brief definition or description
- Rhythm: Add brief definition or description
- Subsong: Add brief definition or description
- Synchronization: Add brief definition or description
- Vocal learning: Add brief definition or description
- Williams syndrome: Add brief definition or description
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