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San Jose Mercury News: Brain fires up during musical interludes |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 2:55 pm |
| Tags: science stories, health amp medicine stories |
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It seems natural enough that one perks up when, amid the busy passages of a complex piece of orchestration, the music falls silent for a beat or more. Kind of like if one walks off a ledge. Yikes no floor, the mind shouts. Ditto no music. But surmise and evidence are different things. In the Mercury News Lisa Krieger has a story on Stanford and McGill University scientists who captured brain images of the neural shift that comes at such moments. Nice quote from one source: “The pause itself becomes the event.” The story arises from a report in the journal Neuron. Video-image link here. -CP Grist for the Mill: Stanford Sch. of Med. Press Release; [ Full article ] |
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