Presentations by:

• Dr. Susan Homan, Professor of Literacy at University of South Flordia, College of Education
  and
  
• Carlo Franzblau, Inventor and CEO of "TUNEinTM to READING"; Electronic Learning Products in Tampa, Florida.

Articles:

1. Rasinski, T., Homan, S. & Biggs, M. (in press). Teaching reading fluency to struggling readers - method, materials, and evidence.
   
2. Biggs, M.C., Homan, S.P., Dedrick, R., Minick, V. & Rasinski, T. Running Head: SINGING SOFTWARE WITH STRUGGLING READERS.

Articles:

1. Overy, K. (2003). Dyslexia and music. From timing deficits to musical intervention. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 999, 497-505.
   
2. Norton, A., Winner, E., Cronin, K., Overy, K., Lee, D. & Schlaug, G. (2005). Are there pre-existing neural, cognitive, or motoric markers for musical ability? Brain and Cognition, Vol 59(2), p. 124-134.

Articles:
Starter Papers

1. Brown, S. (2001). Are music and language homologues? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 930(1), 372-374.
   
2. Hauser, M. & McDermott, J. (2003). The evolution of the music faculty: a comparative perspective. Nature Neuroscience, 6, 663-668.
   
3. McDermott, J. & Hauser, M. (2005). Probing the evolutionary origins of music perception. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060(1), 6-16.

Additional papers

1. McDermott, J. & Hauser, M. (2005). The origins of music: innateness, development, and evolution. Music Perception, 23, 29-59.
   
2. Fitch, T. (2006). The biology and evolution of music: a comparative perspective. Cognition, 100, 173-215.
   
3. Peretz, I. (2006). The nature of music from a biological perspective. Cognition, 100, 1-32.

Articles:

1. Blood, A.J. & Zatorre, R.J. (2001). Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion. Proceedings of the National Acadmey of Sciences of the United States of America, 98(20), 11818-23.
   
2. Grewe, O., Nagel, F., Kopiez, R. & Altenmuller, E. (2005). How does music arouse "chills"? Investigating strong emotions, combining psychological, physiological, and psychoacoustical methods. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060, 446-9.

Articles:

1. Zatorre, R.J., Belin, P. & Penhune, V.B. (2002). Structure and function of auditory cortex: music and speech. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(1), 37-46.
   
2. Amaducci, L., Grassi, E. & Boller, F. (2002). Maurice Ravel and right-hemisphere musical creativity: influence of disease on his last musical works? European Journal of Neurology, 9(1), 75-82.

Articles:

1. Peretz, I. & Coltheart, M. (2003). Modularity of music processing. Nature Neuroscience, 6(7), 688-691.
   
2. Schellenberg, E. (2005). Music and cognitive abilities. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14(6), 317-320.