Tweet We live in a competitive society. Everybody wants to be smarter, prettier, richer, stronger, skinnier, etc., etc. Not surprisingly we want to develop our brain power to the max too. For almost 20 years now we;ve been hearing about “The Mozart Effect” and learning that music really can have a profound effect on the […]
Entries Tagged as 'music and the brain'
How can YOU use music to help your brain?
June 24th, 2010 · No Comments · music and the brain, Uncategorized
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Yes, animals do have rhythm!
June 5th, 2010 · No Comments · music and the brain
Tweet I was just re-reading my last post on this blog and was again intriqued by the story of “Snowball” the dancing bird. So I went to YouTube and looked it up and sure enough, there it was! You may not like “The Backstreet Boys” that much but I think you’ll agree that it definitely […]
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Neuroscientist studies Music and the Brain
June 1st, 2010 · No Comments · how the brain works, music and the brain, Uncategorized
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
Published: May 31, 2010 Three years ago, when Oxford University Press published “Music, Language, and the Brain,” Oliver Sacks described it as “a major synthesis that will be indispensable to neuroscientists.” The author of that volume, Aniruddh D. Patel, a 44-year-old senior fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, was in New York City in May. We spoke over coffee for more than an hour and later by telephone. An edited and condensed version of the conversations follows.
A Recommendation: “This is Your Brain on Music”
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · music and the brain
Tweet A lot of books cross my desk in the course of a week. Many just keep passing along after I read the title, look at the art, and peruse the contents and maybe the index. This book is NOT one that kept moving. I’m going to start with just one review, but I think […]
Here’s your brain on music!
April 18th, 2010 · No Comments · how the brain works, music and the brain
The brain is an amazing organ and has been called the last frontier of science. So much is still not understood and yet each day we understand more. For the last 20 years, scientists have been particularly interested in how music affects the brain. Read on…
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