Temporal Entrainment of Cognitive Functions: Musical Mnemonics Induce Brain Plasticity and Oscillatory Synchrony in Neural Networks Underlying Memory

2005 ◽  
Vol 1060 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. THAUT
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Brain Plasticity

scholarly journals Terapi Menulis untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Kognitif Pecandu Narkoba di Lapas Dewasa Kota Blitar

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Miza Rahmatika Aini ◽  
Hesty Puspitasari
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Neural Circuits ◽  
Brain Plasticity ◽  
Alternative Therapy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Psychotropic Substances ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
New Information ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Modern Era

Drugs is the term for narcotics, psychotropic substances and other dangerous. The term often used is DRUGS (Narcotics, Alcohol, Psychotropics and other addictive substances) Around us today, there are a lot of addictive substances that are negative and very harmful to the body. Known as narcotics and illegal drugs. In this sophisticated modern era, drugs have become a problem for mankind in various parts of the world. Drugs that can destroy bright reasoning destroy body and soul, inevitably can threaten the future of mankind. In life, a critical step of the neurodevelopmental process, drug abuse may be caused brain plasticity mechanisms that can induce long-lasting improvements in neural circuits and in the end, actions. One of the effects of these improvements is the disability. Cognitive functions, with negative academic effects on the acquisition of new information.  Knowing those phenomena, the researcher had alternative therapy for increasing their cognitive functions. The researcher used writing as a therapy for them. The advantages of writing are immense, but they are also underestimated. Writing has profound therapeutic benefits. Writing is also a healthy brain exercise to activate brain cells and boost memory. This research conducted in Adult Prison in Blitar city, in which 15 drug prisoners were treated into writing theraphy. The result is they could write as well as the icreasing of their cognition.    

Innate Musicality and Brain Plasticity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shera Lumsden
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Brain Plasticity ◽  
Brain Areas ◽  
Gross Motor ◽  
Recent Advancement ◽  
The Brain

The field of neuroscience has undergone a recent advancement upon the realization that music has a profound effect on brain plasticity. The hypothesis that a person is born with a brain that is “hard-wired” for use has been replaced with the understanding that while the brain has innate tendencies, it is modifiable and adapts in response to experience (Habib & Besson, 2008). Brain plasticity is necessary for cognitive development to continue (The Neuroscience Institute, 2012). Most infants are born with the basic neural networks needed to begin to adapt to their world, including their musical world, and as they grow and learn, neural networks are formed and developed in response to their experiences. The brain, however, does not always develop as expected, and one significant sign is a delay in gross motor coordination. This paper will present research discussing brain areas and structures associated with coordination and those involved in the processing of music, hypothesizing there might be a relationship between the two. This will have implications for further study regarding the effects of music on the brain and the possibility that music can be used to facilitate brain plasticity and assist in the development of coordination skills in those with developmental delays.  

Neurons versus Networks: The Interplay between Individual Neurons and Neural Networks in Cognitive Functions

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri I. Arshavsky
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Complex Networks ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Medial Temporal Lobe ◽  
Nervous Activity ◽  
Intracellular Level ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Electrical Potentials ◽  
Higher Nervous Activity

The main paradigm of cognitive neuroscience is the connectionist concept postulating that the higher nervous activity is performed through interactions of neurons forming complex networks, whereas the function of individual neurons is restricted to generating electrical potentials and transmitting signals to other cells. In this article, I describe the observations from three fields—neurolinguistics, physiology of memory, and sensory perception—that can hardly be explained within the constraints of a purely connectionist concept. Rather, these examples suggest that cognitive functions are determined by specific properties of individual neurons and, therefore, are likely to be accomplished primarily at the intracellular level. This view is supported by the recent discovery that the brain’s ability to create abstract concepts of particular individuals, animals, or places is performed by neurons (“concept cells”) sparsely distributed in the medial temporal lobe.

Parallel Distributed Processing and Neural Networks: Origins, Methodology and Cognitive Functions

1991 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randolph W. Parks ◽  
Debra L. Long ◽  
Daniel S. Levine ◽  
David J. Crockett ◽  
Edith G. McGeer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Distributed Processing ◽  
Parallel Distributed Processing

Neural plasticity: The substratum of music-based interventions in neurorehabilitation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Diya Chatterjee ◽  
Shantala Hegde ◽  
Michael Thaut
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Neural Plasticity ◽  
Neurological Disorders ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Brain Plasticity ◽  
Neurological Rehabilitation ◽  
Predictive Role ◽  
The Brain ◽  
And Training

BACKGROUND: The plastic nature of the human brain lends itself to experience and training-based structural changes leading to functional recovery. Music, with its multimodal activation of the brain, serves as a useful model for neurorehabilitation through neuroplastic changes in dysfunctional or impaired networks. Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) contributes to the field of neurorehabilitation using this rationale. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to present a discourse on the concept of neuroplasticity and music-based neuroplasticity through the techniques of NMT in the domain of neurological rehabilitation. METHODS: The article draws on observations and findings made by researchers in the areas of neuroplasticity, music-based neuroplastic changes, NMT in neurological disorders and the implication of further research in this field. RESULTS: A commentary on previous research reveal that interventions based on the NMT paradigm have been successfully used to train neural networks using music-based tasks and paradigms which have been explained to have cross-modal effects on sensorimotor, language and cognitive and affective functions. CONCLUSIONS: Multimodal gains using music-based interventions highlight the brain plasticity inducing function of music. Individual differences do play a predictive role in neurological gains associated with such interventions. This area deserves further exploration and application-based studies.

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