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This report from Scientific Blogging, summarizes the results from the study, “Prefrontal Cortex In Jazz Musicians Winds Down When Improvising.”
It sheds light on the creative process by comparing MRI scans of professional jazz pianists playing on a piano keyboard. Several images of the subjects’ brains were taken as they were doing tasks of varying [...]

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Here’s an interview with Oliver Sacks from Wired Magazine about his latest publication, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. In what looks to be a fascinating read, he looks at all – or at least many of- the ways the brain has for processing music.
Dr. Sacks is a neurologist and the physician upon whom [...]

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