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Keeping Mozart in Mind
of: Gordon L. Shaw
Elsevier Trade Monographs, 2003
ISBN: 9780080509709 , 400 Pages
2. Edition
Format: PDF
Copy protection: DRM
Front Cover
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Keeping Mozart in Mind
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Foreword
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Preface to the First Edition
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Preface to the Second Edition
14
Acknowlegments
16
Prologue
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Part I: Higher Brain Function: Music, Mathematics, Chess
28
Chapter 1. History, Anecdotes, Correlations, and Interviews
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Chapter 2. Spatial-Temporal and Language-Analytic Reasoning in Learning Math and Science
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Chapter 3. Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning
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Chapter 4. Implications: Scientific, Educational, Clinical
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Part II: Structured Brain and Symmetry
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Chapter 5. Symmetry as a Common Theme
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Chapter 6. Introduction to the Brain: Basic Brain Features and Brain Imaging
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Chapter 7. Mountcastle Theory of Mammalian Cortex: Internal Neural Language of Higher Brain Function
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Chapter 8. Trion Model and Symmetries
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Chapter 9. Trion Music: Reasoning and Creativity
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Chapter 10. Trion Model of Higher Brain Function: Prediction that Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning
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Part III: Tests of Predictions in Human Behavior
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Chapter 11. Highly Accurate Mental Rehearsals: Correlation with Top Performance in Sports
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Chapter 12. Listening to Mozart Sonata (K.448) Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning: The ‘‘Mozart Effect’’
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Chapter 13. Music Training Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning in Preschool Children
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Chapter 14. Music Training Plus Spatial-Temporal Training Equals Improved Math
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Part IV: Tests from Brain Imaging and Animal Studies
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Chapter 15. EEG and fMRI Studies of the Mozart Effect
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Chapter 16. Symmetry in Primate Higher Brain Function
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Chapter 17. Musical Structure of the Internal Neural Language of the Brain: Using Music as the Rosetta Stone to Help Decode this Internal Language
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Chapter 18. Animal Behavior While Listening to Music and Doing Higher Brain Functions
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Part V: The Future of Music as a Window into Higher Brain Function
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Chapter 19. Child Brain Development and Adult Brain Reorganization
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Chapter 20. Education: Music Training Plus Spatial-Temporal Training Improves Math
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Chapter 21. Clinical Implications
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Chapter 22. The Spatial-Temporal Thinking Machine
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Chapter 23. Thoughts
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Part VI: New Scientific and Educational Results
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Chapter 24. Science Updates and Breakthroughs
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Chapter 25. Revolution in Math Education
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Glossary
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Notes
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References
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Index
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