Commentary on "Why Does Music Therapy Help in Autism?" by N. Khetrapal
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2009-01
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Empirical Musicology Review
Abstract
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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music therapy, autism, emotion, speech prosody
Citation
Empirical Musicology Review, v4 n1 (January 2009), 27-31