The Library of Congress: Music and the Brain

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The Library of Congress: Music and the Brain

The Library's Music and the Brain events offer lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music. Project chair Kay Redeld Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists, and other experts at the Library for a compelling 2-year series, with generous support from the Dana Foundation.

Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?

30 April 2010 1:34 AM

Host Steve Mencher and Professor David Huron, Head of Ohio State University's Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory,answer to the question in a conversation on emotions, the brain and music.
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Music, Memories, and the Brain

30 April 2010 1:34 AM

Dr. Peter Janata, associate professor at University of California, Davis, and member of the Center for Mind and Brain talks with Steve Mencher about how the brain creates an autobiographical soundtrack from our memories.
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The Positive Effects of Music Therapy on Health

30 April 2010 1:34 AM

Steve Mencher from the Library of Congress talks with Concetta M. Tomaino, Executive Director,Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, about "The Positive Effects of Music
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Therapy on Health."
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Making Music Changes Brains

30 April 2010 1:34 AM

Dr. Gottfried Schlaug, Director of the Music, Neuroimaging and Stroke Recovery Laboratories, Beth Deaconess Israel Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, talks with host Steve Mencher about the notable differences between the brain of a musician and a non-musician.
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Trance Formation: Music, Trance, Religious Experience, and the Brain

23 January 2010 12:40 AM

Steve Mencher from the Library of Congress talks to Dr. Robin Sylvan, Director of the Sacred Center, El Cerrito, California about "Trance Formation: Music, Trance, Religious Experience, and the Brain."
Media les loc_musicandthebrain_sylvan.mp3 (MPEG Layer 2 Audio, 56.7 MB)

States of Mind: Music in Islamic Su Rituals

23 January 2010 12:40 AM

Steve Mencher from the Library of Congress discusses "States of Mind: Music in Islamic Su Rituals" with Dr. Taouq ben Amor, Gordon Gray J. Lecturer, Arabic Studies, Columbia University.
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Your Brain on Jazz: Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Improvisation.

10 December 2008 3:36 AM

Johns Hopkins otolaryngolost and jazz musician Charles Limb talks about "The Brain on Jazz"--Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Improvisation."
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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature.
18 December 2008 3:58 AM

Daniel Levitin's new book The World in Six Songs has attracted a serious fan following, including Sting, Joni Mitchell and Willie Nelson. Neuroscientist, rock producer, and best selling author (This is Your Brain on Music) Levitin talks about his research for this fascinating book that takes the reader on a journey of the world through 6 types of songs-friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion/ritual, and love.
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The Music of Language and the Language of Music.

29 December 2008 11:26 PM

In our everyday lives language and instrumental music are obviously different things. Neuroscientist and musician Ani Patel is the author of a recent, elegantly argued offering from Oxford University Press, Music, Language and the Brain. Oliver Sacks calls Patel a "pioneer in the use of new concepts and technology to investige the neural correlates of music." In this podcast he discusses some of the hidden connections between language and instrumental music that are being uncovered by empirical scientic studies.
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Dangerous Music
30 January 2009 1:26 AM

Artistic anathemas, musical mayhem, and cultural conundrums such as "the devil's music"- Middleton and Krash explore the psychological and social issues associated with the human tendency toward censorship of musical expression, as well as what has been described as "suicideby-music" and crimes that have been connected to musical genres.
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From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication

28 March 2009 4:26 AM

From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication: Steven Brown, Director of the NeuroArts Lab at McMaster University, discusses his work looking at the expression of emotion in both Western and non-Western musics. Music employs a number of mechanisms for conveying emotion. Some of them are shared with other modes of expression (speech, gesture) while others are specic to music. The most unique way that music communicates emotion is through the use of contrastive scale types. While Westerners are familiar with the major/minor distinction, the use of contrastive scale types in world musics is universal.
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"Halt or I'll Play Vivaldi! Classical Music as Crime Stopper"

17 April 2009 10:44 PM

Helfgott and Middleton examine the use of classical music by law enforcement and other cultural institutions as social control, to quell and prevent crime. Their conversation touches on how classical music is viewed in contemporary culture, how it can be a tool for discouraging criminal activity and anti-social behavior, as well as its history as a mind-altering experience.

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The Mind of the Artist

2 December 2009 3:36 AM

Dr. Richard E. Cytowic, MD, of George Washington Medical Center discusses his presentation "Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia."
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Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia

2 December 2009 3:36 AM

Michael Kubovy and Judith Shatin of the University of Virginia discuss their presentation "The Mind of an Artist." Debate has long raged about whether and how music expresses meaning beyond its sounding notes. Kubovy and Shatin discuss evidence that music does indeed have a semantic element, and offer examples of how composers embody extra-musical elements in their compositions. Kubovy is a cognitive psychologist who studies visual and auditory perception, and Shatin is a composer who explores similar issues in her music.
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