Efthymios Papatzikis
Canadian University, Dubai
Title: Understanding early perception and development through the neuroscience of music and sound
Biography
Biography: Efthymios Papatzikis
Abstract
In order to disentangle the oversimplification effect that occurs in some early developmental settings related to the neuroscience of music and sound, practitioners need to look back at the rudiments of sound processing and coding. In practice we tend to rely on a lot of assumptions or ‘scientific’ shortcuts in relation to how the music and sound perception system works, forgetting the complexity of the whole. As a result, brain related factoids or neuromyths emerge, bringing adjunct educational tools or methodologies at a point where they seem to be not fully equipped to offer a constantly efficient developmental line. This presentation will discuss some key neuromyths emerging from the related to the educational neuroscience of music and sound study and research context, while it will showcase evidence on the structural and functional misconceptions taking place in the interconnected mind, brain and music context.