Improv, Shrooms, and Neuroscience
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What do improv, meditation, and shrooms all have in common? Research shows they help alter the brain's default mode network…
What do improv, meditation, and shrooms all have in common? Research shows they help alter the brain's default mode network…
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How Improvisation Changes the…
Sunday night, 11:42pm. The deadline for the philosophical essay I’m supposed to write is tomorrow afternoon. Instead, I’m…
Um ano inteirinho novo está começando e você, assim como eu, provavelmente está desejando que uma série de coisas novas e boas…
Charles Dickens didn’t just have a great mind, he had great calves as well. On any given day, Dickens averaged 12+ miles of…
Ever wondered why there are so many covers of “Hallelujah” out there? Sure, it’s a good song, but recent research suggests that…
Improvisation is a key skill in the jazz world, but does it have a place in classical music training (and performance) as well?
Research supports the notion that people with ADHD characteristics are more likely to reach higher levels of creative thought…
“Just because a diagnosis [of ADHD] can be made does not take away from the great traits we love about Calvin and his imaginary…
“Just because a diagnosis [of ADHD] can be made does not take away from the great traits we love about Calvin and his imaginary…
By the end of 2014, roughly 1 in 4 people worldwide will be using a smartphone—with the total number of users topping 1.75…
We don’t have to be professional pianists to reap the benefits of improvisation.
Images of pianists' brains highlighted areas that seemed to underpin their musical creativityScientists claim to have shed…
"The latest findings from the real neuroscience of creativity suggest that the right brain/left brain distinction is not the…
What freestyle rap can teach us about creativity and flow.
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My latest at my Big Think Blog. I explore improv and the idea of agreement. The most important rule in improvisation comedy is…
My latest at my Big Think Blog. I explore improv and the idea of agreement. The most important rule in improvisation comedy is…
Do people have a different shade of consciousness when improvising jazz? I picture a jazz musician standing with his eyes closed…
Here are my notes from an intriguing TED presentation looking at musical creativity and functional MRI.Charles Limb MD is a …
Charles Limb is a surgeon and musician who is investigating the neural correlates of musical creativity. You might remember his…
Over at Sciam's Mind Matters, Melody Dye has a great post on the surprising advantages of thinking like a baby. At first glance…
Over at Sciam’s Mind Matters, Melody Dye has a great post on the surprising advantages of thinking like a baby. At first glance…
Você está no ensino médio (antigo colegial) e descobre que por algum motivo amanhã não haverá aula. O que voçê faria neste dia…
Improvisation is the main feature of Jazz…
The Program in…
This was originally posted in April, 2008 on an old incarnation of my website, but my co-Flosser Ransom Riggs just mentioned…
In this interesting paper from the NIH, researchers found that when jazz musicians improvised or made a spontaneously creative…
How and why did humans evolve the ability to make and hear music?It's easy to understand how stronger muscles, sharper eyes and…
Charles Limb and Allen Braun at Johns Hopkins have recently published a study on the internal characteristics and functions of…
Mind Hacks has written about a new study of the neuroscience of jazz improvisation. Six pianists' brains were scanned while…
A fantastic study has just been released by open-access science journal PLoS One that investigated the neuroscience of jazz…