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For meeting on May 15th, 2009:
Hyde, K., Lerch, J., Norton, A., Forgeard, M., Winner, E., Evans, A., Schlaug, G. (2009). Musical Training Shapes Structural Brain Development. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 3019-3025.

Forgeard, M., Winner, E., Norton, A, Schlaug, G. (2008). Practicing a Musical Instrument in Childhood is Associated with Enhanced Verbal Ability and Nonverbal Reasoning. Plos One, 3 (10), 1-8.

Pulli, K., Karma, K., Norio, R., Sistonen, P., Goring, H., Jarvela, I. (2008). Genome-wide linkage scan for loci of musical aptitude in Finnish families: evidence for a major locus at 4q22. Journal of Medical Genetics, 45, 451?456.

Hannon, E. Trainor, L. (2007). Music acquisition: Effects of enculturation and formal training on development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 466-472.

Fritz, T. et al. (2009). Universal Recognition of Three Basic Emotions in Music. Current Biology, 19, 573-576.
For meeting on January 25, 2008:
Chapter 9 - Musicophilia
Chapter 14 - Musicophilia
Chapter 16 - Musicophilia

Articles accompanying the lecture on November 16, 2007:

Susan Homan, Ph.D. (University of South Florida, Tampa) will give a presentation about her research experience currently focusing on how struggling readers can improve their reading through regular use of the software program "TUNEinTM to READING".

By courtesy of Susan Homan, we can provide you with the following two relevant articles:
Rasinski, T., Homan, S. & Biggs, M. (in press). Teaching reading fluency to struggling readers - method, materials, and evidence.
Biggs, M.C., Homan, S.P., Dedrick, R., Minick, V. & Rasinski, T. Running Head: SINGING SOFTWARE WITH STRUGGLING READERS.
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