Music, Art, & the Brain Archives - BrainHQ from Posit Science https://www.brainhq.com/blog/category/music-art-the-brain/ Tue, 29 Aug 2023 22:41:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Brain Health In The Time of the Coronavirus https://www.brainhq.com/blog/brain-health-in-the-time-of-the-coronavirus/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 19:00:45 +0000 https://dev-bhq.pantheonsite.io/?p=17291 The past month has been tough. All across the world, people have been asked to stay home and socially isolate themselves to protect themselves and their communities against the spread of the COVID19 pandemic. At Posit Science, we’ve all been working from home for five weeks now, sheltering in place with our families or roommates,…

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]]> The Best Brain TedTalks https://www.brainhq.com/blog/the-best-brain-tedtalks/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 01:07:26 +0000 https://dev-bhq.pantheonsite.io/?p=14561 For the past 25 years or so, TED Talks have been a great source of accessible information about cutting-edge research on the brain and its development over a lifespan. We’ve featured several on our blog and in other communications. Here, we’ve gathered a few of our favorites together so you can find them all in…

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]]> This Is Your Brain on Music (Infographic) https://www.brainhq.com/blog/this-is-your-brain-on-music-infographic/ Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:28:26 +0000 https://blog.brainhq.com/?p=5571 We get a lot of questions about music and the brain. We recently found this great infographic on music and the brain from the University of Florida, and wanted to share. Enjoy!

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]]> 7 Common Brain Myths – Busted! https://www.brainhq.com/blog/7-common-brain-myths-busted-video/ Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:26:55 +0000 http://dev-brainhq-blog.pantheonsite.io/?p=6266 We love the ASAP Science videos and have posted a few here before. This is another great one, featuring 7 common brain myths – and explaining why they aren’t true, and what the real facts are! Do alcohol and drugs really kill brain cells? Are people “left-brained” or “right-brained”? Do we have five senses, or more? And…

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]]> Daniel Wolpert Asks & Answers: "Why Do We Have Brains?" https://www.brainhq.com/blog/daniel-wolpert-asks-answers-why-do-we-have-brains/ Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:55:10 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=3649 With all of the complex brain science findings out there, I really enjoyed this TED talk from neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert that goes back to one of the most fundamental questions about brains: why do we have them at all? Wolpert argues that the only reason we evolved our brains is because we had to move,…

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]]> Q&A Session on Music and the Brain with Kimberly Sena Moore https://www.brainhq.com/blog/our-brain-awareness-qa-session-on-music-and-the-brain-with-kimberly-sena-moore/ https://www.brainhq.com/blog/our-brain-awareness-qa-session-on-music-and-the-brain-with-kimberly-sena-moore/#respond Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:47:20 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=2857 Yesterday, we hosted an excellent Q&A session on Facebook about music and the brain. Music therapist Kimberly Sena Moore answered people’s questions and I think we all learned a lot! For those who missed the discussion and prefer to read it in transcript form, I’ve re-posted it here. You can find Kimberly’s blog about music…

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]]> https://www.brainhq.com/blog/our-brain-awareness-qa-session-on-music-and-the-brain-with-kimberly-sena-moore/feed/ 0 "Brain: The Inside Story" – A New Show at the American Museum of Natural History https://www.brainhq.com/blog/brain-the-inside-story-a-new-show-at-the-american-museum-of-natural-history/ Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:42:58 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=2436 The American Museum of Natural History opens a show on our favorite subject - the brain.

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]]> Music and the Brain: Further Evidence on The Power of Sound https://www.brainhq.com/blog/music-and-the-brain-further-evidence-on-the-power-of-sound/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:01:01 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=1909 Studying and actively listening to music develops the brain in ways that help beyond just enjoying music.

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]]> Video: Dan Buettner on How to Live to Be 100+ https://www.brainhq.com/blog/video-dan-buettner-on-how-to-live-to-be-100/ Tue, 18 May 2010 10:42:30 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=1299 Researcher Dan Buettner talks about some of the world's identified "blue zones"--areas of the world in which people live to be over 100 and remain mentally and physically healthier than the rest of us even into very old age.

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]]> Bobby McFerrin’s Amazing Musical Brain Trick https://www.brainhq.com/blog/bobby-mcferrins-amazing-musical-brain-trick/ Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:27:24 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=1244 Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale in this video clip. But how does it work?

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