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Thoughts on musical memory
I am quite a busy bee at the moment but I hate to leave the blog unattended for you, dear reader. As a compromise I have reprinted here a shortened version of a blog I wrote for Ohlogy about the power of musical memory. The original can be found here. ——————————————————————————————————— A while ago I had a nice email from a media student who was working on her final dissertation project. She was interested in the nature of musical memory and wanted to chat to me for her planned broadcast. It was a very interesting hour. Her first question went straight to the heart of the matter. Is musical memory…
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Music-based therapy helps non-verbal autistic children to utter speech for the first time
For a few years now there has been a great deal of interest in Melodic Intonation Therapy, a singing-based intervention that has been extensively tested by Gottfried Schlaug’s Boston group. This specially adapted sing-song training has been shown to help people with non-fluent aphasia (usually after stroke) regain some ability to speak. Today’s blog is about a variant of this type of therapy that has been tested by one of the Schlaug lab members, Catherine Wan, which can aid speech production in non-verbal autistic children. In June of this year I attended Music and Neurosciences IV conference in Edinburgh and this was where I first heard about Auditory Motor Mapping…
