gappage.com » brain http://gappage.com Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:55:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 You Got Your Neuroscience in My Music http://gappage.com/you-got-your-neuroscience-in-my-music/ http://gappage.com/you-got-your-neuroscience-in-my-music/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:52:14 +0000 Keith http://gappage.com/?p=722 Continue reading →]]> I’m fascinated by neuroscience, by how the software that is our brain really works. I’m also fascinated by music, and how it can show how the brain works in a common way across cultures. Here’s a great example of that. Bobby McFerrin at the 2009 World Science Festival showing how a pentatonic scale is something kind of hard-wired into people. (I’m not quite sure how true the term “hard-wired” is, since different cultures have different musical scales — I’d be interested to see how this experiment worked in Japan, frinstance.)

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

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