David Hargreaves and Alexandra Lamont (2017)

subsection from Theoretical Models of Musical Development section

of Chapter 2 ‘Musical Development: Theoretical Models, Approaches, and Issues‘

in The Psychology of Musical Development

The authors set 3 questions to consider with each approach to musical development:

1. How do these neuroscientific studies deal with:
   • musical production?
   • musical perception?
   • musical performance?
   • musical representation?
2. How do these neuroscientific studies deal specifically with developmental progression?
3. How do these neuroscientific studies deal specifically with music?

This section covers 4 main areas, each further divided into sub-areas:

• Cognitive neuroscience
  • neuroconstructivism
  • connectionism

• Social development
  • theory of mind
  • mirror neurons

• General neuroscientific findings about music
  • music has powerful effects at the neural level
  • music activates many different areas of the brain
  • musicians brain structures are different from those of non-musicians

• Imagination as the basis of composing / improvising, performing, and listening to music.