Here’s a study that would seem to be a companion to the earlier Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation, Allen R. Braun the shared investigator. Allen R. BraunCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessCreativityDorsolateral prefrontal cortexFreestyle rapFunctional magnetic resonance imagingimprovisationJazzJazz ImprovisationmusicNeural correlateNeural network
H/T to David Livingstone-Smith for pointing to this article. Exploring the trend of neuro-rejectionism. Neuroscience is in vogue. In the mainstream news and on pop-science bestseller lists, in academic departments and in deli refrigerators, interest in all things brain-related continues to grow, to be sold, and to be consumed. But the growth in public interest…
Alva Noë in Cosmos And Culture Not so fast. A functional brain image such as those produced by PET and fMRI no more captures the brain in action than a graph illustrating the percentage of the population who go to church on Sunday captures the people in the act of worship. Brain scan images are graphical…
Though there is much talk about this study, check out this study that goes back a few years: Our results strongly implicate a distinctive pattern of changes in prefrontal cortical activity that underlies the process of spontaneous musical composition. Our data indicate that spontaneous improvisation, independent of the degree of musical complexity, is characterized by widespread deactivation…
This from PCS ClarkCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessConsciousness StudiesDavid ChalmersExtended MindFunctional magnetic resonance imagingPhilosophyPhilosophy of mind
Here’s an article from Nature Neuroscience that is getting a lot of attention. Here is an interview with lead author Tali Sharot who has cornered the market on “optimism” research. BiologyFrontal lobeFunctional magnetic resonance imagingNature NeuroscienceNeurobiologyOptimismUniversity College London
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