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Neuroscience & Jazz Improvisation: How Improvisation Shapes Creativity and...
Jazz improvisation has become a hot topic in neuroscience lately, and little wonder. “Musical improvisation is one of the most complex forms of creative behavior,” write the authors of a study...
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What Is Higher Consciousness?: How We Can Transcend Our Petty, Day-to-Day...
Each of us has a normal state of mind, as well as our own way of reaching a different state of mind. As the School of Life video above reminds us, such habits go back quite deep into recorded history,...
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Clive James & Jonathan Miller (Both RIP) Talk Together About How the Brain Works
“Were they the last representatives of a special kind of public intellectual?” asks John Mullen in the Guardian. He writes of Clive James and Jonathan Miller, two figures who exemplified “the polymath...
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How Yoga Changes the Brain and May Guard Against Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Photo by Abhisek Sarda, via Wikimedia Commons I tend to be somewhat skeptical of scientific research that focuses solely on what practices like meditation do to the greyish-pinkish-white stuff inside...
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Electronic Musician Shows How He Uses His Prosthetic Arm to Control a Music...
The techno-futurist prophets of the late 20th century, from J.G. Ballard to William Gibson to Donna Haraway, were right, it turns out, about the intimate physical unions we would form with our...
View ArticleJohn Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” & Bach’s “Prelude in C Major” Get Turned into...
Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. —Wassily...
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The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment: Psychologist Daniel Goleman...
“Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life,” says novelist Haruki Murakami in a 2011 New York Times Magazine profile. “If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.” In this, the...
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Former Ballerina with Dementia Gracefully Comes Alive to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake
According to dance/movement therapist Erica Hornthal, “dance/movement therapy operates on the premise that our life experiences are held in the body, and that through the use of movement, memories and...
View ArticleDon’t Think Twice: A Poignant Film Documents How Bob Dylan & The Beatles...
It’s often said the sense of smell is most closely connected to long-term memory. The news offers little comfort to us forgetful people with a diminished sense of smell. But increasingly,...
View ArticleHow Tibetan Monks Use Meditation to Raise Their Peripheral Body Temperature...
Tibetan monks in remote regions of the Himalayas have long claimed near miraculous powers through yogic practices that resemble nothing you’ll find offered at your local gym, though they may derive...
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How to Take the Perfect Nap, According to Cognitive Scientist Sara Mednick
Napping is serious business, despite the fact that when some of us think of naps, we think about preschool. We’ve been taught to think of naps as something to outgrow. Yet as we age into adulthood, so...
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De-Mystifying Mindfulness: A Free Online Course by Leiden University
From Chris Goto-Jones–now Dean of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria–comes a free course which was named ‘one of the best online courses of all time’ in 2020. The...
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Scientists Create an Interactive Map of the 13 Emotions Evoked by Music: Joy,...
Most of our playlists today are filled with music about emotions: usually love, of course, but also excitement, defiance, anger, devastation, and a host of others besides. We listen to these songs in...
View ArticleTake an Intellectual Odyssey with a Free MIT Course on Douglas Hofstadter’s...
In 1979, mathematician Kurt Gödel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer J.S. Bach walked into a book title, and you may well know the rest. Douglas R. Hofstadter won a Pulitzer Prize for Gödel, Escher,...
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Why Do We Dream?: An Animated Lesson
Why do we dream? It’s a question science still can’t answer, says the TED-Ed lesson above by Amy Adkins. Many neuroscientists currently make sense of dreaming as a way for the brain to consolidate...
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: The Real Perceptual Disorder That May Have...
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland isn’t just a beloved children’s story: it’s also a neuropsychological syndrome. Or rather the words “Alice in Wonderland,” as Lewis Carroll’s book is commonly known,...
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Mozart Sonatas Can Help Treat Epilepsy: A New Study from Dartmouth
Many and bold are the claims made for the power of classical music: not just that it can enrich your aesthetic sensibility, but that it can do everything from deter juvenile delinquency to boost...
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Is There Life After Death?: John Cleese and a Panel of Scientists Discuss...
“I am sixty-five years old,” said John Cleese as he began one year’s convocation address at my university, “which is nearly dead.” It got enough of a laugh that I’m not surprised to find, looking it...
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Hear a Neuroscientist-Curated 712-Track Playlist of Music that Causes...
Image by Wikimedia Commons This Spotify playlist (play below) contains music by Prince and the Grateful Dead, Weezer and Billie Holliday, Kanye West and Johannes Brahms, Hans Zimmer and David Bowie,...
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