What happens to our brain when we listen to music?

[Gazjam]

Interesting this.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/12/mind-blowing-music-tinie-tempahs-brain-scan

[struth]

music has been successfully used to bring some people out of comas. Must do something to the brain paths

[alphaGT]

In my brain a small monkey bangs two cymbals together.


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[Sherwood]

With some music it dies a little ....

:o

[walpurgis]

In my brain a small monkey bangs two cymbals together

You can get medication for that Russell. ;) :D

[HackneyRF]

Oliver Sacks, who also wrote 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat' talks about those very things and more in Musicophilia. An amazing book.


http://www.oliversacks.com/books-by-oliver-sacks/musicophilia

[Macca]

There was a doc on the telly the other night about the brain. Bloke dives into the shallow end of the swimming pool and hits his head. Gets treated for severe concussion, goes home and sleeps for three days. Wakes up, has the urge to play the piano, which he has never done before, and discovers he is now a virtuoso pianist. He can't read music, though. Years on he still has the compulsion to play.

[Yomanze]

There was a doc on the telly the other night about the brain. Bloke dives into the shallow end of the swimming pool and hits his head. Gets treated for severe concussion, goes home and sleeps for three days. Wakes up, has the urge to play the piano, which he has never done before, and discovers he is now a virtuoso pianist. He can't read music, though. Years on he still has the compulsion to play.
Goes to show that we create "compartments" in our brain, and that it can (quite literally) get shaken up to expose new ones.

[Yomanze]

In my brain a small monkey bangs two cymbals together.


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At least you don't have a winder on the side of your head...

[alphaGT]

At least you don't have a winder on the side of your head...

I read a book on binaural psycho-acoustics years ago, I can't recall the name, but I seem to recall they installed sensors in an owl's brain, does that ring a bell with anyone? It was compelling reading, and as I recall spoke about how they could make small filter notches in sound and artificially make it seem as if it were coming from a certain direction. They experimented with making binaural recordings for headphone use that seemed to occupy space outside of your head. I'll have to scan the bookshelf and see if I can find it, I wish I could recall the name.


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