The Neurosciences and Music Conferences. An overview 2011-2017. Part one: Text.

The present text provides brief documentation of the 122 papers published in the three proceedings of The Neurosciences and Music Conferences 2011, 2014 and 2017.
The intention of this internet publication is to facilitate quick access to information about music-related neuroscience for interested students, educators and researchers.

Part one indicates the themes and objectives of the three conferences, prominent areas of investigation, and cultural references. Summaries highlight selections of papers from each conference.

Part two provides three schematic surveys of the papers in the conference proceedings.
The surveys report, for each paper: the aim of the study, its musical material, cultural references and categories of investigation, the applied technology and procedure, and the main focus and conclusion of the study.