Creating and understanding music is one of the all-time sought-after abilities for we humans. Interestingly, even with all of the brain imaging and wild studies to understand creativity, very little is still known about musical ability. NPR recently consulted with Dr. Oliver Sacks, a neurologist who explains some thought-provoking musical phenomena. He discusses people with brain injuries who suddenly have incredible talent and someone who is basically driven insane by music. If you want some cutting edge ideas about music and the brain, look no further.
Additionally, for those of you who have ever considered taking music lessons or becoming a musician is some form, know that even one year of training will change your brain to the point that it can be seen as different at autopsy, something that is not true for most other things you can become involved in.
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Hey, do you know how to turn a man into a woman cheaply and easily? Just leave the letter “r” off his name! The author in question is OLIVER Sacks, not OLIVE.
Interesting. I play 2.5 instruments well, sing well, and like lots of music, but after I went through major clinical depression, I stopped listening to it. I can go to a concert and be totally enthralled from a musician’s perspective; I can play for hours; but I rarely listen to CDs (which I did for hours each day before my depression) and never listen to the radio. The desire to listen to music seems to have disappeared permanently. I theorize that it has something to do with my lack of desire to feel emotions, but maybe it’s some brain difference.
The brain may process musical relationships in a way that helps explains how different cultures can use such widely-different tunings to create musical sound: from this processing perspective, those tunings are all “the same.”
See http://www.thummer.com/blog/2007/06/bob-duke-first-contact.html
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