Commentary on "Why Does Music Therapy Help in Autism?" by N. Khetrapal
Publisher:
Empirical Musicology ReviewCitation:
Empirical Musicology Review, v4 n1 (January 2009), 27-31Abstract:
Khetrapal reviews the literature on music and autism and stresses the
need for a greater focus on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying both
autism and music perception. I build upon this review and discuss the strong
connections between speech prosody and emotion in music. These connections
imply that emotion recognition training in one domain can influence emotion
recognition in the other. Understanding of emotional speech is frequently impaired
in individuals with ASD, so music therapy should be explored further as a possible
treatment.
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ArticleISSN:
1559-5749Other Identifiers:
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