I can’t even imagine what it would be like to work in a lab with David Hubel, Michael Gazzaniga, and Sir George Martin on the Advisory.
And the link dump ensues…
The Neurophilosopher found a video clip of Dr. Mark Tramo of the Institute for Music and Brain.
Some lecture notes to a course at MIT taught in part by Mark Tramo on Music Perception and Cognition.
A video of Aniruddh Patel from the Neurosciences Institute on Music and the Mind.
A nice summary on neuroscience and music from the Annals of the NYAS including snippets of ‘Rice Krispies’ and ‘My Dog’ by a boy with Williams Syndrome.
And hey, while we’re at it, check out The Devil and Daniel Johnston. I heard Daniel Johnston on Yo La Tengo’s ‘Genius+Love=Yo La Tengo’ and a few of his really early recordings before the show. Still, I caught the flick at Cinematheque this past spring and was blown away by it. Daniel is a bipolar musical genius. It was a late showing and rainy that night. I took a long walk afterwards. My guess is, if you see the film, you will too.
This field is too interesting to me. I’m going to keep my eyes and ears on high alert at the SFN conference. I’ll have to do some literature search, but off the bat, I reckon scanner noise has got to be the shittiest confound to worry about in a musical fMRI experiment.
Please let me know if you come across recordings of Dr. Mark Tramo’s compositions. I’ve been unable to find any.
