Tweet It appears that Spring has sprung here in Louisville, KY and today I decided to get my new bike out again and go for a ride. I was riding with a friend so I wasn’t expecting any problems but after we had been out for 30 minutes or so, we encountered a pretty good […]
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The Brain Goes to Riverdance
March 10th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tweet Tonight I’m going to Riverdance and I can’t wait! I love Riverdance and I can’t exactly tell you why. There is a fascinating theory out there that we respond biologically and neurologically to music that is in our DNA. In other words, if we have a heavy Irish heritage, this beautiful Irish music […]
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Brain Comes Alive to Sound of Music
January 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tweet Brain Comes Alive to Sound of Music – Finding offers hope for variety of cures Los Angeles Times, November 11, 1998 The music that makes the foot tap, the fingers snap and the pulse quicken stirs the brain at is most fundamental levels, suggesting that scientists one day may be able to retun damaged […]
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Brains, Bicycles, and Brooks Hill
November 19th, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tweet How does the brain think up music? Why do certain songs just pop into your mind at especially opportune times? Earlier today I was riding my shiny new red bike and I was thinking about a time about 20 years ago when I was doing a bike ride with the local bike club. Somehow […]
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Can Mozart’s Music Make you Smarter?
August 6th, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tweet Many of you have probably heard of “The Mozart Effect.” The original research, done in California at UC Irvine, showed that Mozart’s Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos helped highschool students score higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test than students who listend to other music before the exam or those listened to nothing. […]
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