Main description:

Drawing on perspectives from music psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, musicology, clinical psychology, and music education, Music and Mental Imagery provides a critical overview of cutting-edge research on the various types of mental imagery associated with music. The four main parts cover an introduction to the different types of mental imagery associated with music such as auditory/musical, visual, kinaesthetic, and multimodal mental imagery; a critical assessment of established and novel ways to measure mental imagery in various musical contexts; coverage of different states of consciousness, all of which are relevant for, and often associated with, mental imagery in music, and a critical overview of applications of mental imagery in health, educational, and performance settings.

By both critically reviewing up-to-date scientific research and offering new empirical results, this book provides a unique overview of the different types and origins of mental imagery in musical contexts, various ways to measure them, and intriguing insights into related mental phenomena such as mind-wandering and synaesthesia. This will be of particular interest for scholars and researchers of music psychology and music education. It will also be useful for practitioners working with music in applied health and educational contexts.

Contents:

Foreword by Andrea R. Halpern

Introduction and Overview

Mats B. Kussner, Liila Taruffi, and Georgia A. Floridou

PART I: Modalities of Mental Imagery

The Chronicles of Musical Imagery as it Occurs Before, During, and After Music
Georgia A. Floridou

Visual Mental Imagery, Music, and Emotion: From Academic Discourse to Clinical Applications
Liila Taruffi and Mats B. Kussner

Intermittent Motor Control in Volitional Musical Imagery
Rolf Inge Godoy

Kinaesthetic Musical Imagery Underlying Music Cognition
Jin Hyun Kim

Music and Multimodal Mental Imagery
Bence Nanay

PART II: Measurement

Music-Evoked Imagery and Imagery for Music: Subjective and Behavioural Measures
Rebecca W. Gelding, Robina A. Day, and William Forde Thompson

Self-Report Measures in the Study of Musical Imagery
Timothy L. Hubbard

Neuroscience Measures of Music and Mental Imagery
Amy M. Belfi

Deep Neural Networks and Auditory Imagery
Andre Ofner and Sebastian Stober

Musical Imagery from a Cross-Cultural Methodological Perspective
George Athanasopoulos

PART III: Mental Imagery and Related States of Consciousness

Mental Imagery in Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories
Kelly Jakubowski

What is Mind-Wandering?
Mahiko Konishi

Distraction or Panic?
Anthony Gritten

Musical Daydreaming and Kinds of Consciousness
Ruth Herbert

Sound-Colour Synaesthesia and Music-Induced Visual Mental Imagery: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Mats B. Kussner and Konstantina Orlandatou

Music-Evoked Imagery in an Absorbed State of Mind: A Bayesian Network Approach
Thijs Vroegh

Recumbent Journeys Into Sound - Music, Imagery, and Altering States of Consciousness
Joerg Fachner

Part IV: Applied Mental Imagery

Imagery and Movement in Music-Based Rehabilitation and Music Pedagogy
Rebecca S. Schaefer

Applied Mental Imagery and Music Performance Anxiety
Katherine K. Finch and Jonathan M. Oakman

In Search of a Story: Guided Imagery and Music Therapy
Helena Dukic

The Image Behind the Sound: Visual Imagery in Music Performance
Graziana Presicce

Multimodal Perception in Selected Visually Impaired Pianists: Towards A Conceptual Framework
Anri Herbst and Silvia van Zyl

"Don't Sing it With the Face of a Dead Fish!" Can Verbalised Imagery Stimulate a Vocal Response in Choral Rehearsals?
Mary T. Black

Part V: Outlook

Future Perspectives and Challenges

Tuomas Eerola