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music, thought

en se frottant au piano nostalgique

Oliver Sacks, the sooper-dooper famous neurologist—you know, the guy from Awakenings—has written a new book on music and the brain, called Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. It will be published in October.
As you might have guessed from my past posts on this blog, the topic of music and the brain is right up [...]

music, thought

out of our constrictions

Unfortunately, we’re not one nation under a groove, but it doesn’t hurt to keep trying. If dancing gives you the slap you need, here you go:

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But I think Mo’ hits the mood for me better today. Good for me to be reminded that at [...]

music, thought

have you got the mind?

What does science have to say about the endorphin rush I get from listening to Taylor Hicks?
Here’s an embedded YouMind’sEye video on the concept of imprinting: [Start video] We see a little gosling hatching from an egg, its shaky head turns and it sees a mother goose. Gosling imprints on mom, and we see an [...]

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