If you have a friend who just can’t dance, it might be a neurological problem
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Back during elementary school assemblies for the morning rendition of O Canada,
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Brain
The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 955: Amazing facts about music, the brain, and the body
The most powerful and strangest lump of organic material in the known universe sits inside your skull. The human brain
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Scientists have narrowed down where music lives in the brain even more
Scientists have known for a while that music has its own special repository in our brains. Musical memories are stored
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This piece of music could be the “anti-epilepsy” genre scientists have been looking for.
The brain is a mysterious gooey thing. Taken out of the skull and laid on a table, the thing just
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Random music news for Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Gimme. NOW. As for music news for August 24, 2021… A UK study confirms that it’s possible to hold full-capacity
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Music syncs the brains of audiences with the performers
We all know the feeling that comes over us during a great gig when the audience and the performer(s) seem
Read moreThere’s new information on how the brain processes music
For reasons that are still very unclear from an evolutionary and neurological point of view, the human brain is hardwired
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Does listening to music give you chills? Then you may have a special brain.
I believe that The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is the greatest rock song ever conceived. When Roger hits that
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Your brain can identify a song in 100 milliseconds
That lump of squish our skulls is a pretty amazing thing. Not only can store about 200 exabytes of memory
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Here’s what science says happens to our brains when we listen to music
Although there doesn’t seem to be an evolutionary reason for us to have music, it seems as if our brains
Read moreFive fascinating medical mysteries of music
[This is my weekly music column for Global News. -AC] As far as evolutionary biologists can determine, there was no
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