Authors: Gordon L. Shaw, Gordon Shaw
ISBN-13: 9780126390612, ISBN-10: 0126390614
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: REV
The demand for math and science skills in our technology-driven world is at a premium, and yet U.S. students continue to lag behind many other industrialized countries in these areas. This book, based on studies conducted on 8000 elementary school-aged children, proposes that not only is there a relationship between music and math comprehension, but that music can be utilized to heighten higher brain function and improve math skills. The enclosed CD-Rom includes (1) a recording of Allegro con spirito from Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu, courtesy of Sony ClassicalTM, and (2) a descriptive interactive version of S.T.A.R.TM (Spatial-Temporal Animation Reasoning) software program. While this book's discussion of the breakthroughs in understanding of spatial-temporal reasoning abilities will be of particular interest to neuroscientists and cognitive researchers, the book is also accessible to parents and educators.
* Presents the theory that music exercises higher brain function and can enhance math comprehension
* Details how music training coupled with special-temporal reasoning (thinking in pictures) can dramatically impact a child's ability to understand and master math
* Includes an interactive CD-ROM with math games
Foreword | ||
Preface to the First Edition | ||
Preface to the Second Edition | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Prologue | ||
Pt. I | Higher Brain Function: Music, Mathematics, Chess | |
Ch. 1 | History, Anecdotes, Correlations, and Interviews | 3 |
Ch. 2 | Spatial-Temporal and Language-Analytic Reasoning in Learning Math and Science | 17 |
Ch. 3 | Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning | 29 |
Ch. 4 | Implications: Scientific, Educational, Clinical | 35 |
Pt. II | Structured Brain and Symmetry | |
Ch. 5 | Symmetry as a Common Theme | 43 |
Ch. 6 | Introduction to the Brain: Basic Brain Features and Brain Imaging | 53 |
Ch. 7 | Mountcastle Theory of Mammalian Cortex: Internal Neural Language of Higher Brain Function | 73 |
Ch. 8 | Trion Model and Symmetries | 87 |
Ch. 9 | Trion Music: Reasoning and Creativity | 121 |
Ch. 10 | Trion Model of Higher Brain Function: Prediction that Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning | 141 |
Pt. III | Tests of Predictions in Human Behavior | |
Ch. 11 | Highly Accurate Mental Rehearsals: Correlation with Top Performance in Sports | 147 |
Ch. 12 | Listening to Mozart Sonata (K.448) Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning: The "Mozart Effect" | 159 |
Ch. 13 | Music Training Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning in Preschool Children | 169 |
Ch. 14 | Music Training Plus Spatial-Temporal Training Equals Improved Math | 185 |
Pt. IV | Tests from Brain Imaging and Animal Studies | |
Ch. 15 | EEG and fMRI Studies of the Mozart Effect | 205 |
Ch. 16 | Symmetry in Primate Higher Brain Function | 211 |
Ch. 17 | Musical Structure of the Internal Neural Language of the Brain: Using Music as the Rosetta Stone to Help Decode this Internal Language | 229 |
Ch. 18 | Animal Behavior While Listening to Music and Doing Higher Brain Functions | 239 |
Pt. V | The Future of Music as a Window into Higher Brain Function | |
Ch. 19 | Child Brain Development and Adult Brain Reorganization | 255 |
Ch. 20 | Education: Music Training Plus Spatial-Temporal Training Improves Math | 269 |
Ch. 21 | Clinical Implications | 281 |
Ch. 22 | The Spatial-Temporal Thinking Machine | 295 |
Ch. 23 | Thoughts | 301 |
Pt. VI | New Scientific and Educational Results | |
Ch. 24 | Science Updates and Breakthroughs | 325 |
Ch. 25 | Revolution in Math Education | 341 |
Glossary | 357 | |
Notes | 369 | |
References | 387 | |
Index | 401 |