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Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (93) | comments 12

Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally ...





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Report Says Musicians Hear Better Than Non-Musicians

Report Says Musicians Hear Better Than Non-Musicians

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Journal of Neuroscience reports this week that musicians are better than non-musicians at recognizing speech in noisy environments.  The finding from a study conducted by neurobiologists at Nor ...


Music makes you smarter

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Regularly playing a musical instrument changes the anatomy and function of the brain and may be used in therapy to improve cognitive skills.


'Perfect Pitch' in Humans Far More Prevalent than Expected

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences have developed a unique test for perfect pitch, and have found surprising results.


Probing Question: Is a Stradivarius violin better than other violins?

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Some sell for more than $3.5 million. Only 700 of them exist, and they’re stored in vaults, frequently stolen and often counterfeited.


In jazz improv, large portion of brain's prefrontal region 'takes 5' to let creativity flow

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 27, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (32) | comments 0

When John Coltrane was expanding the boundaries of the well-known song “My Favorite Things” at the Village Vanguard in May 1966, no one could have known what inspired him to take the musical turns he took. But imaging researchers ...


Taking up music so you can hear

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Anyone with an MP3 device -- just about every man, woman and child on the planet today, it seems -- has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination.


Aaron Berkowitz at the keyboard.

The improvising brain: Getting to the neural roots of the musical riff

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What’s involved when a musician sits down at the piano and plays flurries of notes in a free fall, without a score, without knowing much about what will happen moment to moment? Is it possible ...


S. Korean firm to open major dog cloning centre

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A South Korean biotechnology firm will early next year open a centre capable eventually of producing up to 1,000 cloned dogs annually, a company executive said Friday.


Experts believe Internet technologies will transform a music industry which has seen sales drop

Internet Age re-inventing music business: Bandwidth

Technology / Internet

created Aug 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

Music and Internet worlds merged on San Francisco's posh Nob Hill as insiders brainstormed about industry rocking Web 2.0 trends from social networking to smart phones with cameras.


Breast Cancer Physicians Have Limited Access to Trained Interpreters

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a new survey of physicians who treat breast cancer patients, only one-third said they had good access to trained medical interpreters or telephone language-interpretation systems when they needed it. Poor access to interpreters ...



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