Music and Brain
Psychologist Lauren Stewart on congenital amusia, earworms and how music affects mental and physical health
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Psychologist Lauren Stewart on congenital amusia, earworms and how music affects mental and physical health
Physicist Marzena Szymanska on the properties of photons, fluids of light and whether it’s possible to make a ...
Linguist David Adger on sound processing in animals, bonobo Kanzi and the nature of linguistic differences bet...
Philosopher Jonathan Birch on memes, cultural evolution and the difference in altruistic behaviour between hum...
Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on the art market, the ‘American Leonardo’ and why connoisseurship doesn't work i...
Glaciologist Martin Siegert on the history of glacial theory, lake Vostok research and what ice tells us about...
Physicist David Southwood on the exploration of the oceans, Earth meteorology and how can we observe climate c...
Mathematician Gareth Jones on compact Riemann surfaces, algebraic numbers and what is the absolute Galois grou...
Psychologist Pamela Heaton on the areas of strength in children with Williams syndrome, how do they recognise ...
Cognitive neuroscientist Patrick Haggard on the Pacinian corpuscle, three attributes of the tactile sensations...
Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on connoisseurship, how can we tell an original painting from a copy and why less...
Philosopher Jonathan Birch on altruism in amoebas, Hamilton's rule and the green beard gene