About Music and the Brain

The Library's Music and the Brain events offer lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music. Project chair Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists, and other experts at the Library for a compelling 2-year series, with generous support from the Dana Foundation.
Music and the Brain Podcasts

Title: Your Brain on Jazz: Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Improvisation.
Speaker: Dr. Charles J. Limb
Date: December 8, 2008
Running Time: 21:55 minutes

Title: The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature.
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Levitin
Date: November 18, 2008
Running Time: 21:51 minutes

Title: The Music of Language and the Language of Music.
Speaker: Dr. Aniruddh D. Patel, Esther J. Burnham Fellow, Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California
Date: November 7, 2008
Running Time: 18:53 minutes