Music and Sleep

A Scientific Perspective

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Music and Sleep: A Scientific Perspective presents a comprehensive discussion on the topic of music and sleep. The book brings these disciplines together, providing a solid background, recent developments, and a deeper understanding of their synthesis. Of special interest are technical advances that have made sleep recordings, music manipulation, and sleep stimulation more accessible in recent years. Notably, sleep disturbances are an increasing problem in society, highlighting the importance of developing low-risk and cost-effective treatments. Healthcare professionals looking to integrate novel information on music and sleep to increase their patients' wellbeing need look no further than this book.

Music is widely used as sleep aid, but the exact neural mechanisms of the sleep-enhancing function of music are not fully clear. New research output includes exciting breakthroughs, hypotheses, and discoveries in both of these areas. However, since research fields on the neuroscientific mechanisms of music and those of sleep have not traditionally overlapped, this book fills in the gaps.

Elucidates on the most critical concepts, definitions, theories, neural mechanisms, and implications of music and sleep for overall health
Focuses on the methods of using music to improve sleep for children, healthy participants, the elderly, and patients with sleep disorders
Includes reviews and analyses of recent experimental findings from research, examining the extent to which music and sounds can be processed during sleep and the developmental changes and neural correlates of sleep

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:400
Förlag:Elsevier Science
ISBN:9780443336515

Utforska kategorier

Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
Sömnstörningar inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Kira Vibe Jespersen is Associate Professor at Center for Music in the Brain at Aarhus University, Denmark. With a unique interdisciplinary background in psychology, neuroscience and music therapy, her research focuses on clinical applications of music with a particular interest in the effect of music on sleep and the use of music for insomnia. In her research, she evaluates both the effects of music interventions and the potential neurophysiological mechanisms underlying these effects. In addition, she is a trained musician. Björn Rasch is Professor of Cognitive Biopsychology and Methods at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He has been actively involved in basic sleep research for over 25 years, and has published in leading scientific journals such as Science, Nature Neuroscience, PNAS and Physiological Reviews. He has edited and written several books on memory consolidation, hypnosis research and sleep. His research focus is on sleep, cognition and health, and he has completed many studies involving the presentation of auditory stimuli during sleep. Recently, he has started conducting several studies on music processing during sleep. In addition, he is trained in music theory and is an active musician.

Innehållsförteckning

Section 1: A General Introduction to Music and Sleep1. What is music?2. Music and the brain3. Music and Health4. What is sleep?5. Sleep and Health6. Historical perspectives on music and sleepSection 2: Music for Sleep7. The ethnography of lullabies8. Children and lullabies9. The use of music as a sleep aid in the adult population10. Music as a non-pharmacological sleep aid in the elderly11. Clinical uses of music for sleep improvement12. Sleep music - which music do people use for sleepSection 3: Music During Sleep13. Auditory perception during sleep14. Perception of harmonic information during sleep and the influence of individual preference15. Perception of sounds and speech in the prenatal stages and their effects on infants' sleep16. The incorporation of sounds and music into dreams17. Do Androids Dream of Euphonic Sleep?Section 4: Sleep as Music18. The hidden music of sleep patterns19. The effects of sound stimulation on slow waves20. Audio design interacting with sleep21. Sleep sonification - the sound of sleep?22. Sleep sonification in art projects