Donald A. Hodges

Donald A. Hodges served as Covington Distinguished Professor of Music Education and Director of the Music Research Institute (2003-2013) and is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Previous appointments include the Philadelphia public schools, the University of South Carolina, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. Hodges is the author of A Concise Survey of Music Philosophy (2017), co-author of Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology (2011), contributing editor of the Handbook of Music Psychology and the accompanying Multimedia Companion (1980, 1996), co-editor of Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain (2019), co-editor of Routledge International Handbook on Music Psychology in Education and the Community across the Lifecourse (forthcoming), and author of numerous papers in music psychology and music education. Recent research efforts have included a series of brain imaging studies of pianists, conductors, and singers using PET and fMRI. Hodges has served on the editorial committees of the Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, Reviews of Research in Human Learning and Music, and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, and has presented widely across the US and internationally. His biographical sketch is in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music. His degrees are from the University of Kansas (BME) and the University of Texas (MM and PhD). A current vita and copies of many of his papers can be accessed at http:// http://sites.google.com/site/donaldahodges/.

There are 39 included publications by Donald A. Hodges :

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Are we wired for music? 2002 2037 In recent years there has been an explosion of research into the phenomenon or music in the brain. This has been paralleled by a much inure visible presence in the popular media. Unfortunately. what is reported in scholarly journals is not always wha...
Aspects of multisensory perception: The integration of visual and auditory information processing in musical experiences. 2006 3203 One of the requirements for being a successful musical conductor is to be able to locate sounds instantaneously in time and space. Because this requires the integration of auditory and visual information, the purpose of this study was to examine mult...
Auditory enhancement of visual temporal order judgment 2006 2405 Although numerous studies have shown that response times can be speeded by the presentation of multisensory stimuli, here we show that such speeding can be seen even when the second sensory channel fails to provide any task-relevant (i.e. redundant) ...
The brain basis of piano performance 2005 3618 Performances of memorized piano compositions unfold via dynamic integrations of motor, perceptual, cognitive, and emotive operations. The functional neuroanatomy of such elaborately skilled achievements was characterized in the present study by using...
Brains and Music, Whales and Apes, Hearing and Learning . . . and More 2009 3473 This article is about whalesongs, hearing, musical brains, and a number of other topics explored over the past 35 years. Previous research is reviewed briefly, and more attention is given to recent efforts with an emphasis on collaborative research c...
CAIRSS for Music in arts medicine. 1992 2331 CAIRSS (Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval Service System) for Music is a bibliographic database for music research literature. Researchers and practitioners from any location in the world now have online access to, and are able to do computeriz...
Closing the mind’s eye: Deactivation of visual cortex related to auditory task difficulty 2008 2895 Blood oxygen-level-dependent signal decreases relative to baseline (deactivations) can occur with stimulation of an opposing sensory modality. Here, we show the importance of the difficulty of an auditory task on the deactivation of visual cortical a...
Can Neuroscience Help Us Do a Better Job of Teaching Music? 2010 4105 We are just at the beginning stages of applying neuroscientific findings to music teaching. A simple model of the learning cycle based on neuroscience is Sense ? Integrate ? Act (sometimes modified as Act ? Sense ? Integrate). Additional components c...
The creative music project: A cantometric analysis of fifth grade student composition. 2003 2914 There is an emerging consensus that the integration of creative activities in the music classroom facilitates student engagement in the process of music learning. Research is beginning to provide evidence that children are not only fully capable of c...
Creativity and the default network: A functional connectivity analysis of the creative brain at rest 2014 3221 The present research used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine whether the ability to generate creative ideas corresponds to differences in the intrinsic organization of functional networks in the brain. We examined t...
Does music really make you smarter? 1999 14656 "Music makes you smarter and "the Mozart effect" have become increasingly visible buzz woods in the last few years. The possibility that music instruction might enhance learning In others areas has captured the Imagination of many. Many record stores...
The Effects of Recorded Aural Models on the Performance Achievement of Students in Beginning Band Classes 1975 1435 Identification of the Problem. Beginning wind instrument students often learn to play their instruments in large, mixed-instrument classes in which the teacher does not demonstrate on each student's instrument, or perhaps on any instrument. Thus, man...
Environmental Factors in Susceptibility to Noise-induced Hearing Loss in Student Musicians. 2008 3005 Hearing threshold and survey data collected over 3 years in a university school of music indicate that 52% of undergraduate music students show declines in high-frequency hearing at 6000 Hz consistent with acoustic overexposure. Declines at 4000 Hz h...
A First Look at the Role of Domain-General Cognitive and Creative Abilities in Jazz Improvisation 2013 4269 The present study explored the associations among several cognitive and creative abilities and expert ratings of jazz improvisational quality. Ten male undergraduate jazz students (8 performance majors, 2 education majors; 5 winds, 3 strings, 1 piano...
Genre identification of very brief musical excerpts 2012 2195 The purpose of this study was to examine how well individuals were able to identify different music genres from very brief excerpts and whether musical training, gender and preference played a role in genre identification. Listeners were asked to ide...
How and why does music move us? Answers from psychology and neuroscience 2015 2815 What scientific evidence can music educators share with their community stakeholders concerning how and why music moves us so powerfully? Five key points derived from recent psychological and neuroscientific findings are (1) Network Science is a new ...
How does music training predict cognitive abilities? A bifactor approach to musical expertise and intelligence 2016 1992 Many studies have found that variation in music training is associated with intellectual abilities, but research disagrees over whether music education should primarily correlate with general intelligence (g) or with specific lower-level cognitive ab...
The Impact of a Funded Research Program on Music Education Policy 2010 2131 Sounds of Learning: The Impact of Music Education is a research program designed to allow researchers to examine the roles of music education in the lives of school-aged children to expand the understanding of music's role in a quality education. The...
Implications of music and brain research. 2002 17923 In recent years, we have witnessed an explosion of information about the brain. New imaging techniques have given neuroscientists the tools to peer into the brain in ways unimaginable just a few years ago. What they are learning is revolutionizing ou...
Laryngeal Tension in Adolescent Choral Singing 2013 2248 For years there has been speculation about whether singing in varying vocal styles may cause more tension in the voice. The subject of adolescent voice and the consequences of excess tension over a prolonged period have not been thoroughly examined. ...
Listening Between the Notes: Aesthetic Chills in Everyday Music Listening 2013 2558 Who gets chills—a pleasurable feeling of goose bumps—in response to music, and why? The current study used experience sampling to examine within-person variability in aesthetic chills. For one week, 106 undergraduate participants responded to 10 dail...
Music education and music psychology: What?s the connection? 2003 18039 Music psychology is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the phenomenon of music. The multidisciplinary nature of the field is found in explorations of the anthropology of music, the sociology of music, the biology of music, the physics...
Music listeners, philosophers, and researchers 2013 1425 Relationships between philosophy and science have ranged from Wittgenstein's view that cognitive science has nothing to offer the understanding of art to the view that science is in the process of eliminating the need for philosophy [1]. Taking a mid...
Music Teaching Via the Microcomputer 1982 1082 Until very recently, the use of computers in teaching music has been almost exclusively in the province of colleges and universities. An industrial paradox—increased technology combined with decreased costs—has made it possible for music teachers in ...
Music to the Inner Ears: Exploring Individual Differences in Musical Imagery 2013 1609 In two studies, we explored the frequency and phenomenology of musical imagery. Study 1 used retrospective reports of musical imagery to assess the contribution of individual differences to imagery characteristics. Study 2 used an experience sampling...
Music Unlocks Brain Functions 2005 1643 Soccer. computer classes, scouting, and on and on; today's children have so many activities to choose from, it often seems as if their days are programmed from dawn to dusk. In the midst of all this, why should parents make certain their children are...
A Musician's Guide to the Human Brain 1983 1643 In recent years there has been a tremendous upsurge in the interest musicians have shown in the brain. Consider these titles as just one indication; Music and the Brain: Studies in the Neurology of Music (Critchley and Hensen, 1977); Art Education an...
Network Science and the Effects of Music Preference on Functional Brain Connectivity: From Beethoven to Eminem 2014 12594 Most people choose to listen to music that they prefer or ‘like’ such as classical, country or rock. Previous research has focused on how different characteristics of music (i.e., classical versus country) affect the brain. Yet, when listening to pre...
Network science: A new method for investigating the complexity of musical experiences in the brain 2012 1619 Network science is a rapidly emerging analysis method for investigating complex systems, suchas the brain, in terms of their components and the interactions among them. Within the brain,music affects an intricate set of complex neural processing syst...
Openness to experience and auditory discrimination ability in music: An investment approach 2016 1837 Why do people vary in how well they discriminate musical sounds? The present research explored personality traits as predictors of auditory discrimination ability, a cornerstone of many popular musical aptitude tests. According to investment-theory a...
Screech, Hoot, and Chirp: Natural Soundscapes and Human Musicality 2004 1320 The earth is not a silent planet. It is filled with an immense variety of geophanies (the sounds of inanimate nature such as waterfalls, thunderstorms, and wind) and biophanies (the sounds of animals). These sounds of nature are at once both familiar...
The screening of potential music educators. 1984 1023 Excellence of the educational process is attainable only through excellence and quality of the professional staff of teachers and administrators. The steering committee appreciates the commitment of those throughout our slate who are actively involve...
Setting an agenda for neuromusical research. 1993 1195 Why do we human beings have such powerful emotional responses to music? How do composers, conductors, and other musicians think in sound? What happens when a pianist suddenly loses control over his hands and can no longer perform? These and a myriad ...
The significance of music in the contemporary world 2007 1795 One of the goals of the Suncoast Music Education Research Symposium was to understand music from multiple perspectives. The purpose of this presentation was to explore this notion and to consider many different and perhaps infrequently recognized way...
The song system of the human brain. 2004 2754 Although sophisticated insights have been gained into the neurobiology of singing in songbirds, little comparable knowledge exists for humans, the most complex singers in nature. Human song complexity is evidenced by the capacity to generate both ric...
A Virtual panel of expert researchers. 2000 3422 This article presents the observations of a virtual panel of research experts who have conducted significant research on music and the brain. Their answers to questions posed by the moderator (the author) give unique insights into their findings and ...
What neuromusical research has to offer music education. 1997 3379 One area of music research that has received increasing attention over the past twenty-five years is the study of music and the brain, or neuromusical research. Although the earliest studies can be traced back more than 100 years (e.g., Proust, 1866)...
Why study music? 2005 9637 Cognitive neuroscience is identifying neural networks in the brain that support multiple ways of knowing. This notion is also supported by evidence from psychology, anthropology, sociology, and other related disciplines. These human knowledge systems...
Wired for music: The science of human musicality 2007 1536 Music is at the very core of what it means to be a human being. To find music is to find human beings, and vice versa. Although some features of the natural soundscape (e.g., that which we call bird song or whale song) bear remarkable similarities to...