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The significance of exposure to music for the formation and stabilisation of complex neuronal relationship matrices in the human brain: implications for the salutogenetic effects of intervention by means of music therapy

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The human brain is not to be compared with a machine which is ‘produced’ according to a specific construction plan and whose structure and function can be deduced by the inspection of this plan or of the individual components which have been fashioned according to it.

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Hüther, G. (2009). The significance of exposure to music for the formation and stabilisation of complex neuronal relationship matrices in the human brain: implications for the salutogenetic effects of intervention by means of music therapy. In: Haas, R., Brandes, V. (eds) Music that works. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-75121-3_7

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