Please refer to the official, peer-reviewed journal of our Association for the most up-to-date research:
Ricochet The International Journal of Tomatis Method ResearchRICOCHET 20 Vol 201 2 No 201 20 May 2004.pdf
ANDREWS Susan, "The Thalamus, Neuropsychology and Tomatis" (PowePoint Pdf)
Ulrike A. Kaunzer (University
of Bologna); Frederic Gianni
(Diapason, Milan):
The Audio Language Project (PDF)
Ulrike A. Kaunzer (University
of Bologna); Frederic Gianni
(Diapason, MilanLe Projet Audio Langue:Amelioration De La Comprehension Auditive Et De L’expression Orale D’une Langue Etrangere(PDF)
LE ROUX Maude, "Creating new neuro pathways"
OLKIEWICZ Eva; WESTIN Mats: " Motor Skills, Energy, Expressiveness and Social Behavior: a Statistical Evaluation of Results"
PAULEY, John-Bede. "To Turn Singing On Its Ear: The Singer's Voice and the Tomatis Listening Curve, Parts I & 11." Journal of Singing. 2007, 2008
SALAÜN, Odile and MICHON Raphaël: “Accompanying Pregnant Women”
THOMPSON HEATH, Maisha, "Music and spatial reasoning"
FRANCISCO J. RUBIA VILA , "Musica y el Cerebro", Conferencia a la Real Academia Nacional, Neurociencias, 2009
Books and Articles about the Tomatis Method 09 (PDF)
La Méthode Tomatis: (Magazine Article from AFSR)
Historical Development of Tomatis Method (pdf)
Research about the Tomatis Method from Poland.pdf (Document in Polish)Tomatis Resultatrapport (Pdf)
(Resultat Tomatis Arbetslivsrehabilitering )
Sound Perception Training
Deutsche Bücher über die Tomatis
Index of books and articles about the Tomatis MethodLivret et articles sur la Méthode Tomats¿Cerebros Precoces? (1)¿Cerebros Precoces? (2)¿Cerebros Precoces? (3)¿Cerebros Precoces? (4)
VIDEOS:Testimonial from a Speech Therapist (English, French)Testimonial from a Tomatis Consultant (English, French)Tomatis & Pregnancy, a father's testimonial (English, French)Tomatis & Pregnancy, a mother's testimonial (English, French)Children, Mozart and Tomatis (English)Tomatis at School. Research Project, 2007, EnglishPregnancy & Tomatis, 2007 (Spanish)Tomatis for Singers, Musicians, Actors (English, Spanish, French)The Electronic Ear 2006 (English)Interview Dr. Tomatis, 2001 (French)Earlier interview with Dr. Tomatis (French)Introduction to the Tomatis Method (English, French)Tomatis School Research, Chile (Spanish)Introducción al Método Tomatis (Telemadrid), (Spanish)Autism & Tomatis, Valerie Dejean - ABC News Peter JenningsAutism & Tomatis, Valerie Dejean - NBC News, Katie CouricADHD & Tomatis; Dorinne Davis - CNN, Paging Dr. Gupta
RESEARCH ABSTRACTS:
Childhood Autism and Auditory System Abnormalities
Magdalini Hitoglou MD, PhD*, Athina Ververi MD†, Alexandros Antoniadis MD‡ and Dimitrios I. Zafeiriou MD, PhD†, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author
† 1st Department of Pediatrics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
‡ 1st ENT Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
* Unit of Communication Disabilities, 1st ENT Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Pediatric Neurology, Volume 42, Issue 5, May 2010, Pages 309-314
doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2009.10.009 | Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Available for purchase online 15 April 2010.
Hearing disorders are common among children with autism, ranging from peripheral and sensorineural hearing deficit or loss to auditory hypersensitivity with bizarre reactions to sounds. The auditory abnormalities and consequent sensory deprivation exacerbate the communication deficit of autism, and early auditory assessment holds an important place in the planning of intervention and the overall prognosis of patients. Physiologic, pathologic, imaging, and neurochemical studies have revealed an array of aberrations in the perception and processing of the audiologic stimuli, including (among others) maturational defects, atypical lateralization, and serotonin dysfunction.
Towards a neural basis of music-evoked emotionsTrends in
Cognitive Sciences, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 10 February
2010
Stefan KoelschReview by
Stefan Koelsch, Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion”, Freie
Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin,
Germany
Available online 10 February
2010.
Music is capable of evoking exceptionally strong emotions and of reliably
affecting the mood of individuals. Functional neuroimaging and lesion studies
show that music-evoked emotions can modulate activity in virtually all limbic
and paralimbic brain structures. These structures are crucially involved in the
initiation, generation, detection, maintenance, regulation and termination of
emotions that have survival value for the individual and the species. Therefore,
at least some music-evoked emotions involve the very core of evolutionarily
adaptive neuroaffective mechanisms. Because dysfunctions in these structures are
related to emotional disorders, a better understanding of music-evoked emotions
and their neural correlates can lead to a more systematic and effective use of
music in therapy.
14100 • The Journal of Neuroscience, November 11, 2009 • 29(45):14100 –14107
Alexandra Parbery-Clark,1,2
Erika Skoe,1,2 and
Nina Kraus1,2,3,4
1Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Departments of 2Communication Sciences, 3Neurobiology and Physiology, and 4Otolaryngology,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
Musicians have lifelong experience parsing melodies from background harmonies, which can be considered a process analogous to speech perception in noise.
To investigate the effect of musical experience on the neural representation of speech-in-noise, we compared subcortical neurophysiological responses to speech in quiet and noise in a group of highly trained musicians and nonmusician controls.
Musicians were found to have a more robust subcortical representation of the acoustic stimulus in the presence of noise. Specifically, musicians demonstrated faster neural timing, enhanced representation of speech harmonics, and less degraded response morphology in noise. Neural measures were associated with better behavioral performance on the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) for which musicians outperformed the nonmusician controls. These findings suggest that musical experience limits the negative effects of competing background noise, thereby providing the first biological evidence for musicians’ perceptual advantage for speech-in-noise.
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The Effect of Tomatis Therapy on Children with Autism: Eleven Case Studies
Author: Jan Gerritsen
DOI: 10.1080/10904010903466378
Publication Frequency: 3 issues per year
Published in: Journal of Listening, Volume 24, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 50 - 68
Subjects: Communication Studies; Intercultural Communication; Interpersonal Communication;
Abstract
This article presents a reanalysis of a previously reported study on the impact of the Tomatis Method of auditory stimulation on subjects with autism. When analyzed as individual case studies, the data showed that six of the 11 subjects with autism demonstrated significant improvement from 90 hours of Tomatis Therapy. Five subjects did not benefit significantly, at least not on the measures used in this research. The results of this study support previous findings reported in peer-reviewed research.
The benefits from the Tomatis Therapy varied from subject to subject. In this study, one subject transitioned from nonverbal to verbal, one began to spontaneously repeat words, and others increased their receptive and expressive vocabulary. Additional findings included improvements in skills of daily living, motor skills, socialization, and overall communication skills. The findings of this study also indicated reductions in hyperactivity, atypical behavior, and inattention.
Pediatrics 2009 Dec 7
Effect of
music by Mozart on energy expenditure in growing preterm infants
Lubetzky R, Mimouni FB, Dollberg S, Reifen R,
Ashbel G, Mandel D
Objective: The rate of
weight gain in preterm infants who are exposed to music seems to improve. A
potential mechanism could be increased metabolic efficiency; therefore, we
conducted this study to test the hypothesis that music by Mozart reduces
resting energy expenditure (REE) in growing healthy preterm infants.
Design: A prospective,
randomized clinical trial with crossover was conducted in 20 healthy,
appropriate-weight-for-gestational-age, gavage-fed preterm infants. Infants
were randomly assigned to be exposed to a 30-minute period of Mozart music or
no music on 2 consecutive days. Metabolic measurements were performed by
indirect calorimetry.
Results: REE was similar
during the first 10-minute period of both randomization groups. During the next
10-minute period, infants who were exposed to music had a significantly lower
REE than when not exposed to music (P = .028). This was also true during the
third 10-minute period (P = .03). Thus, on average, the effect size of music on
REE is a reduction of approximately 10% to 13% from baseline, an effect
obtained within 10 to 30 minutes. Conclusions: Exposure to Mozart music
significantly lowers REE in healthy preterm infants. We speculate that this
effect of music on REE might explain, in part, the improved weight gain that
results from this "Mozart effect."
Birgit Mampe1, Angela D. Friederici2, Anne Christophe3 and Kathleen Wermke1
Newborns' Cry Melody Is Shaped by Their Native Language, Current Biology, 05 November 2009
1 Center for Prespeech Development and Developmental Disorders, Department of Orthodontics, University of Würzburg, 97070 Würzburg, Germany
2 Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
3 Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure/CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
Summary
Human fetuses are able to memorize auditory stimuli from the external world by the last trimester of pregnancy, with a particular sensitivity to melody contour in both music and language [1 ,2 ,3 ]. Newborns prefer their mother's voice over other voices [4 ,5 ,6 ,7 ,8 ] and perceive the emotional content of messages conveyed via intonation contours in maternal speech (“motherese”) [9 ]. Their perceptual preference for the surrounding language [10 ,11 ,12 ] and their ability to distinguish between prosodically different languages [13 ,14 ,15 ] and pitch changes [16 ] are based on prosodic information, primarily melody. Adult-like processing of pitch intervals allows newborns to appreciate musical melodies and emotional and linguistic prosody [17 ]. Although prenatal exposure to native-language prosody influences newborns' perception, the surrounding language affects sound production apparently much later [18 ]. Here, we analyzed the crying patterns of 30 French and 30 German newborns with respect to their melody and intensity contours. The French group preferentially produced cries with a rising melody contour, whereas the German group preferentially produced falling contours. The data show an influence of the surrounding speech prosody on newborns' cry melody, possibly via vocal learning based on biological predispositions.
Le cri d'un nouveau-né varie selon sa langue maternelle
France - Dès la naissance, les cris des nourrissons varient en fonction de leur nationalité. C'est ce que vient de démontrer une équipe de scientifiques franco-allemande de l'Institut Max-Planck et du laboratoire de sciences cognitives de l'École normale supérieure de Paris.
"L'ouïe est le premier système sensoriel qui se développe" explique Angela Friederici, co-auteure de l'étude parue dans la revue scientifique Current Biology. Ainsi, alors que les bébés français crient en montant dans les aigus, les cris des nouveau-nés allemands vont de l'aigu vers le grave.
Alors que la communauté scientifique pensait, de manière unanime, que les cris des bébés étaient dus exclusivement à des différences de pression dans le système respiratoire, cette nouvelle étude prouve le contraire, après "analyse de plus de 20 heures de cris de bébés dans des maternités en France et en Allemagne". Selon ses auteurs, les mots de la langue française "sont accentués à la fin, si bien que la mélodie est ascendante, tandis que c'est généralement l'inverse en allemand".
Des résultats surprenants, mais pas tant que ça : durant les 3 derniers mois de grossesse, les enfants à naître profiteraient en effet pleinement de l'environnement sonore extérieur qui les entoure. Rien d'étonnant donc à ce que "les différences d'intonations dans les deux langues [...] soient ressenties dans le ventre de la mère et reproduites plus tard", comme l'explique le communiqué du prestigieux institut allemand ayant participé à l'étude.
A study mentioned on the site of the Swain Center seeks to provide an initial attempt to demonstrate the relationship between the Tomatis Method and improvement of auditory processing skills.
The Effects of The Tomatis Method of Auditory Stimulation on Auditory Processing Disorder: A Summary of Findings
Deborah Ross-Swain Ed.D., CCC Speech-Language Pathologist, Owner/Director of The Swain Center & The Listening Centers
ABSTRACT: The study's purpose is to determine the efficacy of the Tomatis Method of auditory stimulation as a therapeutic intervention for Auditory Processing Disorders (APD). 41 subjects (18 females, 23 males; 4.3 to 19.8 years old) were evaluated for A.P.D.. Performance on standardized tests indicated weaknesses with auditory processing skills. Each subject participated in a 90 hour Tomatis Method protocol and, once completed, was re-evaluated to measure improvement. All subjects demonstrated improvement with skills of immediate auditory memory, auditory sequencing, interpretation of directions, auditory discrimination and auditory cohesion. Pre & post treatment comparison indicated statistically significant differences in the aforementioned skills. These findings suggest that the Tomatis Method of auditory stimulation can be effective as an intervention strategy for A.P.D..
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