Prof. Dr.
Reuven Feuerstein
Professor, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, founder and chairman of the Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, and a clinical, developmental and cognitive psychologist. In 1992, Professor Feuerstein was awarded the Israel Prize for Social Sciences, in 2012, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Prof. Dr. Reuven Feuerstein
in a letter to Peter Hübner:
“It was a great pleasure to meet you ... and to benefit from a presentation of your impressive theoretical as well as musical endeavour.
Your interest in exploring the impact of music on a variety of human conditions is certainly of great interest to us since we are deeply involved in studying the effects of diverse intervention programs for a wide spectrum of children at developmental risk.
We will be very interested in exploring the possibility of cooperating with you in researching these effects by emphasizing a process-oriented methodology by the help of which we will attempt to understand the way by which particular music affects a given state or inherited or acquired condition of the individual.
... as I pointed out in our discussion, we think of a very advanced methodology which is today becoming more and more accessible in studying the CNS, its functioning, its specific reactivity to certain stimuli...”