Module PY3215-KP04

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

4

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor Interdisciplinary Courses for health sciences, optional subject, psychology
• Bachelor Interdisciplinary Courses, optional subject, Interdisciplinary modules

Classes and lectures:

• PY3215-S: Music and the Brain (seminar, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 90 hours private studies
• 30 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• Special musical abilities: synesthesia and perfect pitch
• Deficits in musical perception and processing: amusia and musical anhedonia
• Motor control while making music and corresponding movement disorders (focal dystonia)
• Therapeutic use of music
• Music performance anxiety and mental health in musicians
• Music and memory, attention, and emotion

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• The students gain knowledge in perception, processing, production of music in humans
• They gain the ability to present scientific and clinical results, as well as the critical discussion about research and publications
• The students receive competences in personal development, especially regarding the communication and cooperation in a team by structured work in small groups with different backgrounds of profession

Grading through:

• presentation

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Daniel S. Scholz

Teacher:

• University of Music Lübeck
• externe Referent*innen

Literature:

• Altenmüller, E., Furuya, S., Scholz, D. S., & Ioannou, C. I. (2019) : Brain Research in Music Performance In M. H. Thaut & D. A. Hodges (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain (pp. 458–486). Oxford University Press, (2019) /li>
• Münte, T. F., Altenmüller, E., & Jäncke, L. (2002) : The musician’s brain as a model of neuroplasticity Nature Reviews Neuroscience, (2002) /li>
• Vuust, P., Heggli, O. A., Friston, K. J., & Kringelbach, M. L. : Music in the brain Nature Reviews Neuroscience, (2022) /li>

Language:

• English, except in case of only German-speaking participants

Notes:

Last Updated:

07.10.2025