Music plays an important role in regulating
our mood, attention, and identity, and in
accompanying our everyday actions. For the
brain, music listening is a complex process,
which involvesmany perceptual, cognitive, motor,
and emotional components that work in
concert to bring about our subjective experience
of music.1 This entails a wide-scale activation
of a primarily bilateral network of temporal,
frontal, parietal, and limbic regions that
are related to arousal, attention, semantic and
syntactic processing, memory, and emotions.2,3
Also, behavioral studies have shown that exposure
to music can temporarily enhance emotional
and cognitive functioning in healthy subjects
and in various clinical patient groups.4–6
Little, however, is still known about the potential
therapeutic role of music listening in neurological
rehabilitation.