The performer is actually a neuroscientist and had the ability to have a little keyboard created and take it into an MRI machine to show the difference between the brain processing pre-composed music and the brain processing improvised music. What do you prefer?
Entries Tagged as 'brain'
Here’s your brain on jazz! Really interesting!
February 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Music and the Brain, Music and the Mind-Body, Music in the News!
Music and the Brain After Surgery
July 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Music and Surgery, Music Healing
http://the-brain-and-music.blogspot.com/2009/07/music-releases-endorphins-in-brain.html Everyone knows that music makes them feel better, but apparently, music immediately after surgery is even more powerful than previously known. today I came across this article: By Denise DadorLOS ANGELES (KABC) — A local hospital takes the healing properties of music right to the patients. She’s in the hospital, but Carol Starks feels [...]
Music, the Brain, and School Performance
June 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music and the Brain
Music, the Brain, and Academic Performance June 21, 2009 Music affects many areas of brain function by Marjorie H. Weil Recently the Albion School District announced that, beginning this fall, all fifth- through 12th-graders would be required to take band or choir. Why? Because statistics show that students who do so perform better academically, have [...]
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Music, the Brain and Near-death experiences
June 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Music and the Brain
All Things Considered, May 22, 2009 · We’ve all heard the stories about near-death experiences: the tunnel, the white light, the encounter with long-dead relatives now looking very much alive. Scientists have cast a skeptical eye on these accounts. They say that these feelings and visions are simply the result of a brain shutting down. [...]
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