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Apr. '11

How Our Brains Recognize Music

From the article:

Research is showing, for example, that our brains understand music not only as emotional diversion, but also as a form of motion and activity. The same areas of the brain that activate when we swing a golf club or sign our name also engage when we hear expressive moments in music. Brain regions associated with empathy are activated, too, even for listeners who are not musicians.

Watch a facinating video about this subject from the NYT Here.

Read the article in the NYT.

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