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About 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 Redfield 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.
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Music and the Brain Podcasts
Title: Trance Formation: Music, Trance, Religious Experience, and the Brain
Speaker: Dr. Robin Sylvan
Date: November 22, 2009
Running Time: 24:45 minutes
Title: States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals
Speaker: Dr. Taoufiq ben Amor
Date: November 14, 2009
Running Time: 25:07 minutes
Title: Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
Speaker: Dr. Richard E. Cytowic, MD
Date: October 30, 2009
Running Time: 17:01 minutes
Title: The Mind of the Artist
Speaker: Michael Kubovy and Judith Shatin, University of Virginia
Date: June 2009
Running Time: 26:29 minutes
Title: Your Brain on Jazz: Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Improvisation.
Speaker: Dr. Charles J. Limb
Date: December 8, 2008
Running Time: 21:55 minutes
Title: The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature.
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Levitin
Date: November 18, 2008
Running Time: 21:51 minutes
Title: The Music of Language and the Language of Music.
Speaker: Dr. Aniruddh D. Patel, Esther J. Burnham Fellow, Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California
Date: November 7, 2008
Running Time: 18:53 minutes
Title: Dangerous Music
Speaker: Jessica Krash, George Washington University and Norman Middleton, Library of Congress Music Division
Date: January 29, 2009
Running Time: 13:04 minutes
Title: From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication
Speaker: Steven Brown
Date: March 27, 2009
Running Time: 19:48 minutes
Title: "Halt or I'll Play Vivaldi! Classical Music as Crime Stopper"
Speaker: Jacqueline Helfgott
Date: April 16, 2009
Running Time: 22:12 minutes