What Can Classical Music do for You?
A lot of my musician, actor, dancer, writer and artist friends, and a lot of people on the news, have been forecasting disaster for the arts, with the latest downturn in the economy. I have responded to several people privately, Read More …
I have decided, contrary to my usual custom, to reprint this letter to Nature by researchers Martin Gardiner, Alan Fox, Faith Knowles, and Donna Jeffrey almost in its entirety, precisely because it is so succinct. Sir — It has been Read More …
From a study by Patrick Bermudez, Jason P. Lerch, Alan C. Evans, Robert J. Zatorre: Subject groups were 53 non-musicians and 53 musicians (10 years or more of musical experience, 21 with absolute pitch). T1 MR images were RF inhomogeneity Read More …
From a study by P. Bermudez & R.J. Zatorre: An fMRI study was conducted to test the hypothesis that Absolute Pitch (AP), the ability to identify the names of musical pitches without reference to a standard, involves, in part, the Read More …
From a study by Patrick Bermudez, Jason P. Lerch, Alan C. Evans and Robert J. Zatorre: We used a multimethod approach to investigate the neuroanatomical correlates of musicianship and absolute pitch (AP). Cortical thickness measures, interregional correlations applied to these Read More …
From a study by Lenore E. DeFonso, Stephen M. Johnson, and Mary E. Rowlett: In this study we attempted to determine whether reported enjoyment of classical music is affected by having some task that involves one in the music while Read More …
Human resource experts are beginning to think that our focus needs to be not as much on science and math, but in the arts, in order to be globally competitive. An article by Kate Pielemeier in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette may Read More …
From a study by Amir Lahav and Gottfried Schlaug: A new imaging study shows that when we learn a new action with associated sounds, the brain quickly makes links between regions responsible for performing the action and those associated with Read More …
Students who had 4 or more years of music instruction outperformed most other groups on the SAT exams, scoring an average of 56 points higher on the verbal portion of the test and 39 points higher on the math portion Read More …
