Tweet Our brains expect certain melodic, harmonic and rhythmic eventualities! This is a great demonstration of that! Bobby McFerrin is the brilliant man who wrote “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” In the summer of 2009, he was a presenter at the World Science Festival. Here’s what NPR had to say: “World Science Festival 2009: Bobby […]
Entries from February 27th, 2010
Demonstration of how the brain predicts music!
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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Music and the Brain: A Therapeutic Duet?
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tweet “Zip-a-dee doo dah, Zip-a-dee-ay …” –A. Wrubel, R. Gilbert “Do-wah diddy-diddy dum diddy-do …” –The Moffats “Super-cali-fragilistic-expialidocious …” –The Sherman Brothers “What an odd thing it is to see an entire species–billions of people–playing with, listening to, meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music.”‘ –Oliver […]
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An excerpt from NOVA: The Musical Mind
February 12th, 2010 · No Comments · how the brain works, music and the brain
Tweet Dr. Oliver Sacks, world-famous neurologist, has been study music and the brain for many years. This is a sampler of a recent special on NOVA that he did!
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