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Study Finds The Brains Of Jazz Musicians Have Superior Flexibility

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A small study by Emily Przysinda of Wesleyan University suggests that the brains of jazz musicians react differently to unexpected events than the brains of classical musicians or non-musicians. It also supports previous findings that learning to play music at all improves creativity.

A similar study comparing jazz and classical musicians using brain scans also showed that jazz musicians were able to react to an unexpected change in chord progressions faster and with less neurological effort than their classically trained peers.

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Does the Body Think? Do Your Neurons Dance?

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The Brain Piece

“What I realized while working on ‘4Chambers’ is that everything in your heart, everything you feel — it’s all the brain,” she said.

In an early version of the new work, Ms. Oberfelder gave herself the comedic role of a fact-dispensing “brain guru.” But she wasn’t satisfied.

“The poetry of the movement was getting lost in the didacticness of the science,” she said. “So I thought, why not get the audience to try to feel their brains, without telling them how? To set up situations where they’re interacting not only with their minds intellectually but passing that down through the body, being in a physical space with other bodies, making connections with others and with sensation?”

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Why Catchy Songs Get Stuck In Our Brains

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Earworm

You can read the study yourself here. It begins with a summary of the previous research on “the concepts of musical ‘catchiness’ and song ‘hooks,’” as well as the advice successful musicians often give for writing “hooks” that will stick with listeners for life. It’s not as easy as it looks, though one of the hallmarks of a successful earworm is simplicity. As Joanna Klein writes at the New York Times, Jakubowski and her colleagues “found that earworm songs tended to be fast, with a common, simple melodic structure that generally went up and down and repeated, like ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.’”

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Music Teachers and Students Fall for Music-Related Neuromyths – German Study

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Neuromyths

Nina Düvel and her colleagues at the Hanover Music Lab asked four experts in the fields of the neuroscience of music or the neuroscience of music education to agree on seven music-related brain facts, and seven music-related brain myths. Among the facts: the idea that music education can benefit language skills and that the anatomy of the brain can change in response to musical training. Among the myths: that right handers process music in the right hemisphere and that musical education boosts children’s intelligence.

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