Music, Mind, and Society
Music is as old as human history but, within the last decades, revolutionary scientific advances in psychology, genetics and brain imaging are making it possible to explore music and its effects in our lives in dramatically new ways. Studies in music cognition include listening, remembering, performing, learning, and composing music, as well as movement and dance. Behavioral studies and neuroimaging provide a window into the brain basis of music behaviors and their role in language and learning. Research on music and the mind at Vanderbilt is advancing this knowledge base across multiple disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, medicine, education, and music performance. Discoveries and best practices could especially benefit persons with conditions as diverse as ADHD, anxiety, autism and other developmental disorders, brain injury, cancer, dementia, depression, genetic disorders, mental illness, post-traumatic stress syndrome, and stroke.
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Music is as old as human history but, within the last decades, revolutionary scientific advances in psychology, genetics and brain imaging are making it possible to explore music and its effects in our lives in dramatically new ways. Studies in music cognition include listening, remembering, performing, learning, and composing music, as well as movement and dance. Behavioral studies and neuroimaging provide a window into the brain basis of music behaviors and their role in language and learning. Research on music and the mind at Vanderbilt is advancing this knowledge base across multiple disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, medicine, education, and music performance.
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Emelyne Bingham
Senior Lecturer in the Teaching of Music
Blythe A. Corbett, Ph.D.
James G. Blakemore Chair and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Professor of Psychology; Associate Director, Division of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Elisabeth Dykens, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics
Roland Eavey, M.D.
Guy M. Maness Chair and Professor of Otolaryngology; Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology; Professor of Hearing & Speech Sciences; Director, Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center
Miriam Lense, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Otolaryngology
Sohee Park, Ph.D.
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology; Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Mark Wallace, Ph.D.
Louise B. McGavock Endowed Chair; Professor of Hearing & Speech Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Psychology; Director, IDDRC Behavioral Phenotyping Core (Core D)
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