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Your Brain on Improvisation

Your Brain on Improvisation

Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds. (Filmed atTEDxMidAtlantic...

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Brain, Neuroscience, Music, Psychology of Music
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Material Type:
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Date Added to MERLOT:
October 10, 2013
Date Modified in MERLOT:
May 1, 2021
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Meganne Masko
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College General Ed, College Upper Division, Graduate School
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English
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Chad Shippee
Chad Shippee (Faculty)
8 years ago

The presentation by Dr. Limb is really quite interesting and engaging.  The study discussed is one that students of music can realte to and proves what many music teachers and musicians have suspected for a long time.  The way music and creativity affects the brain is something that is worth teaching students so that they can appreciate the affects of music.

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