Darwin on Music, Love and Language

“before acquiring the power of expressing their mutual love in articulate language, [men and women] endeavored to charm each other with musical notes and rhythm.”   –  Darwin

Read:   Music Really Is the World’s Universal Language

Pitch, Timing and Timbre in Music and Language Processing

Listen up: From Mozart to Mr. Rogers: Literacy, Music and the Brain

Music as a Language – Listen up!

Houdini knows

What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.
Harry Houdini

The Musical Family

The musical family is enjoying practicing the Language of Music. Fun 🙂

Training the Brain to Become Pitch Perfect

The findings suggest that adults can acquire absolute pitch even without that early exposure to pitches and musical labels.

http://neurosciencenews.com/auditory-memory-absolute-pitch-2077/

Game-based Learning in Helsinki schools

Contrary to what many might think, using technology and games in learning doesn’t isolate kids; rather it provides a completely different avenue for collaboration.         – teacher Katariina Söderholm

The Sounds of Science

Trevor Cox investigates the science of sound research (1/2). Bad Vibes and Good Vibrations. Why do we find some sounds pleasant while others grate on the ears? 

Your Brain on Improv

Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation — so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.