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Singing in the brain: Baby birds' chirps use different neural pathway (5/2/2008)

Singing in the brain: Baby birds' chirps use different neural pathwayYoung songbirds babble before they can mimic an adult's song, much like their human counterparts. Now, in work that offers insights into how birds--and perhaps people--learn new behaviors, scientists have found that immature and adult birdsongs are driven by two separate brain pathways, rather than one pathway that slowly matures. ...> Full Article


Neurons hard wired to tell left from right (4/2/2008)

It's well known that the left and right sides of the brain differ in many animal species and this is thought to influence cognitive performance and social behaviour. For instance, in humans, the left half of the brain is concerned with language processing whereas the right side is better at comprehending musical melody. ...> Full Article



Research Suggests Experience, Not Genetics, Affects Musicians' Brain Responses (2/3/2008)

Research Suggests Experience, Not Genetics, Affects Musicians' Brain ResponsesBy looking at brains listening to Bach, Elizabeth Margulis, a music cognition researcher, has found evidence to support one side in a long-running debate among musicians. Practice, training and experience, it appears, are what develop a musician's ear, not genetic predisposition. ...> Full Article


Stimulating Muscles May Improve Musician's Dystonia (12/29/2007)

Stimulating Muscles May Improve Musician's DystoniaTherapy that stimulates the hand muscles may help treat the condition called musician's dystonia, a movement disorder that causes muscles spasms in musicians, according to a study published in the December 26, 2007, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. ...> Full Article


Researchers Find Music and Language are Processed by the Same Brain Systems (9/28/2007)

Researchers Find Music and Language are Processed by the Same Brain SystemsResearchers have long debated whether or not language and music depend on common processes in the mind. Now researchers have found evidence that the processing of music and language do indeed depend on some of the same brain systems. ...> Full Article


How The Brain Responds As The Beat Goes On (8/7/2007)

How The Brain Responds As The Beat Goes OnMcGill, Stanford researchers first to map neural responses to transitions in music ...> Full Article


Music Moves Brain To Pay Attention (8/4/2007)

Music Moves Brain To Pay AttentionUsing brain images of people listening to short symphonies by an obscure 18th-century composer, a research team from the Stanford University School of Medicine has gained valuable insight into how the brain sorts out the chaotic world around it. ...> Full Article

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