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Finding the Rhythm of Literacy

Dana grantee Nina Kraus and her lab discovered that synchronization ability, like tapping your foot along to a beat, matches the rapid brain activity linked to reading, language and phonological skills. Understanding children’s rhythmic strengths and bottlenecks could help teachers help them improve language skills.

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Why Do We Love Music?

Why do we belt music from the top of our lungs, learn to play instruments, and empty our back accounts to see Bruce Springsteen on Broadway?

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The Science of Music: A Talk with Pascal Wallisch, Ph.D.

What does our taste in music say about us as individuals?

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Do Complex Tasks Train Your Brain to be More Efficient?

Musicians and people who speak multiple languages are faster at identifying sound location and type but show differences in speed of recalling past sounds.

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#WSF18: Why Music Makes Us Shiver

Musicians and neuroscientists gathered at NYU’s Global Center to explore what happens within our brains when we hear a piece of music and how much of listening is a subjective experience.

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Music and Meaning: Hitting the Right Notes

Three prominent researchers share their thoughts on the relationship between music and the brain, and what makes something worthwhile.

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Different Types of Music May Aid Stroke Recovery

Building on work showing that listening to music helps speed peoples’ recovery from stroke, researchers find that the peppy song you love triggers different brain areas than unfamiliar music.

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Music as the Brain’s Universal Language

Q&A with with Charles Limb, M.D.

Dana Foundation grantee Charles Limb ponders the question: Could music be the mind’s universal language?

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Teasing Out Effects of Practice, Emotion in the Creative Brain

Studies asking musicians to improvise while having their brains scanned suggest that extended practice in being creative leads to less activity in some control-related brain regions and stronger network connections.